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The Pragmatic Engineer

Podcasts · Technology

The Pragmatic Engineer

66 episodes · 9 with AI analysis

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Developer tool evolution×2AI Agent Workflows and Tool IntegrationSenior Developer Productivity AccelerationDesign as Product Definition and ImplementationCode Quality and Aesthetic StandardsJunior Developer Market DynamicsSoftware Economics and Cost CentersRuby on Rails and Token EfficiencyCLI Development for Agent AccessibilityHiring Practices and Developer Selection

Analyzed Episodes

Apr 8, 2026

DHH’s new way of writing code

AI Agent Workflows and Tool IntegrationSenior Developer Productivity AccelerationDesign as Product Definition and Implementation
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Apr 1, 2026

Scaling Uber with Thuan Pham (Uber’s first CTO)

Dispatch System Rewriting and ScalingMonolith-to-Microservices Migration StrategyCross-Functional Team Organization (Program/Platform Model)
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Mar 18, 2026

Building WhatsApp with Jean Lee

Startup engineering cultureTechnical leadershipPerformance management
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Mar 11, 2026

From IDEs to AI Agents with Steve Yegge

AI adoption levels for software engineersAI agent orchestration and swarm programmingVampiric burnout effect from AI productivity
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Mar 4, 2026

Building Claude Code with Boris Cherny

AI coding assistantsAgentic AI systemsSoftware development workflows
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Feb 25, 2026

Mitchell Hashimoto’s new way of writing code

HashiCorp founding story and evolutionCloud infrastructure tooling developmentOpen source maintainer challenges with AI
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Feb 12, 2026

The programming language after Kotlin – with the creator of Kotlin

Programming language designKotlin development historyJava interoperability challenges
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Feb 4, 2026

The third golden age of software engineering – thanks to AI, with Grady Booch

History of software engineering golden agesAI impact on software development careersAbstraction levels in programming evolution
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Jan 28, 2026

The creator of Clawd: "I ship code I don't read"

AI-powered software developmentAgentic engineering workflowsClaude and GPT-4 coding capabilities
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