Just wow: Brex looked at what paid newsletters corporate credit card customers at 30,000+ companies subscribe, and @Pragmatic_Eng is the 3rd most popular, and the most popular one for software engineering. Right after Stratechery and Lenny’s Newsletter:

I most certainly have 206 files or more that are visible externally - and they have nothing sensitive in them. That's why I share externally... At this pace, Google will turn into Adobe, deploying dark patterns at an increasing scale It's small lies like this that start it

I am so annoyed at scare tactics as a dark pattern trying to get you to upgrade your SaaS subscription. This is Google Docs doing so. I am already a paying customer - and no, I don't have "sensitive files" shared externally. Such a cheap way to try to get more $$, Google

Btw this is the position: job-boards.greenhouse.io/ant…

Interesting to see how companies like Anthropic hire key people very differently to many other tech companies: This position pays $600-650K in base, plus stock. Most tech co's would engage with an exec recruiter firm to fill the role Anthropic's CPO just shares it on LinkedIn

Chris is such an inspiration. How can you not have deep respect for perpetual builders who, after all these years, still love this shit?

“Fluff-writing is at all-time high” Agree It’s also what social media algorithms reward (plus outrage), sadly

Welcome to accounts that discovered that traffic on their social media account leads to business And how making things up —> more traffic And starting to optimise for this - who can check anyway? Yes ~3 stories per day of how “we cut back our cloud spending by $$$”

After the made-up story of how they saved their startup by spending $1,800 per month on AWS the next made-up story is suddenly spending $52/month on AWS Sure

The amount of people believing made up tweets like this below is concerning For some reason no one stopped to check what “our startup” means on a consulting account In the next tweet it’s “We were paying $15K/month for an RDS Postgres instance.” Blue check != it’s real

You understand this when you see it! Not all good and fun businesses are shiny and VC-funded Also this is not for everyone, but it can be satisfying if you enjoy working with people + staying on the cutting edge and bringing people with you Niko sees it:

Source of my information on demand existing: Talked to a few Director+ folks at “traditional” companies (think: 50+ year old, ones like banks, airlines etc with massive tech teams) They are pouring money into AI pilots, licenses, and want to find training They gave up on training (for now) as there is none

And before you roll your eyes at “training” Done well, workshops that get people to try new tools, new ways of working, and having “aha!” moments are awesome It’s hard to do well, and needs to be continuously updated as tools change: so it’s hard to do it right! Again, demand is there, as are budgets…

A free, non-VC funded lifestyle business idea: AI training / workshops for devs Massive demand from more traditional companies that have budget for this and are seeing devs not really picking up these tools. They want to invest Doesn’t exist as far as they are aware

Wonderful talking with Gergely about building large scale systems, and how my work at 🍎 building LLVM/Swift for CPUs connect to my journey to unify AI compute with MLIR + Mojo🔥. Clarification: Apple's approach is nearly unique, being willing to take very hard swings at very big problems. Asking hard question is part of the process! Apple leadership asked many hard q's in Swift development, but they were the right questions to ask, and helped shape Swift into the success that it became. I credit leadership with asking hard questions, setting a high bar, and demanding excellence. This approach is what allowed it to bet full force on such a radical shift in its developer ecosystem - this required conviction, alignment, and determination at all levels. This is made possible through a very deliberate set of leadership principles. It also helped that Swift is a good thing of course :-) I cherish my time and learnings from Apple, and consider myself to carry "Apple DNA". It's a magical team!

"[AI coding tools like Cursor] increase my enjoyment, as a programmer" THIS is something we don't talk about enough. When a tool makes the job better - eg because it removes the toil that's a drag to do (e.g. refactoring, repetitive stuff) then it's already a big win!

Incredible interview with a fascinating engineer. I had no idea one programmer had a hand in so many projects I’ve come to appreciate.

Apple is paying $1B to Google to use a whitelabelled Gemini to power Siri While Snap gets $400M from Perplexity to allow them to build AI search for Snap in a branded way Comes to show how a large platform giving visibility / distribution to another company is worth $$$

So many other Big Tech companies would never do this. They would be too worried about giving credit to engineers, and their PR and Comms people would be terrified “what if they spill some key details to competition?” So they remain closed off, and you and me will never learn about the interesting work they do - and the best of the best will have no desire to work there Their loss!

Anthropic is one of the few companies that “get” how people stop caring about corporate PR but are interested in in-depth stuff. It’s why I was able to share the insider story of how exactly Claude Code was built (talking with the founding engineers:) newsletter.pragmaticengineer…

Chris Lattner (@clattner_llvm) is one of the most influential engineers of the past two decades. He created LLVM, Swift, contributed to TensorFlow, and created the Mojo programming language. What was the story about creating Swift - and why did he face resistance inside Apple when wanting to replace Objective C? What did he learn at Tesla, Google and CPU maker SiFive, that led him to working on Mojo at Modular? We cover these and many more in today's episode. Watch or listen: • YouTube: piped.video/watch?v=Fxp3131i… • Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/2Nk… • Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas… Brought to you by: •⁠ @statsig ⁠ — ⁠ The unified platform for flags, analytics, experiments, and more. statsig.com/pragmatic •⁠ @linear – The system for modern product development. linear.app/pragmatic?utm_sou… My favorite quote from Chris in this episode: “I believe in the power of programmers. I believe in the human potential of people that want to create things. And that’s fundamentally why I love software is that you can create anything that you can imagine.”