Gergely Orosz

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  • AI-written prose is an inferior read because a model emits a statistical average -- code's audience is a machine, writing's audience is people.

    The reason for this hardline stance is that we believe in the value of human thought and experience, as told by people with first-hand knowledge. It’s also about the audience: The “audience” for AI-written code is usually a machine, whereas the writing in Pragmatic Engineer is for humans, by humans. AI produces a statistical average in its output which creates uniform, dull text that’s an inferior reading experience to human writing – at least today it is.

    How software engineering is changing: an essay challenge Said 1 Sept 2026

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  • Writing is thinking, so an LLM inflating a one-sentence observation into three paragraphs destroys the thing that made it worth reading.

    Writing is thinking, and we are interested in your own thoughts and observations, not a sharp, one-sentence observation turned into three paragraphs of blob text by an LLM.

    How software engineering is changing: an essay challenge Said 1 Sept 2026

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  • Almost every company now reports that engineering processes which worked fine for years have suddenly become outdated.

    Almost every company we talk with currently says that processes which worked fine for years are suddenly pretty outdated.

    How software engineering is changing: an essay challenge Said 1 Sept 2026

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  • Mass AI-written outreach fails on its own terms: playing the same numbers game as everyone else adds to the noise you then drown in.

    Don't expect a response to an AI-written email, or a templated email. I get it, you think it's a numbers game: send a tweaked email out to 100 podcasts, and hope that at least one replies. In reality, by playing the same game as everyone else does, you are assisting to the noise, and end up drowning yourself in it as well.

    Why you're not getting a response to your podcast pitch from me (or others) Said 27 Aug 2026

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  • A founder pitched as having a great deal to say on a topic has almost never written anything about it, and the absence is the tell.

    If your CEO/founder has so much to say about a topic: say it and write it! Ironically, every time I look up what the founder has written about the topic they (or their marketing team) are pitching, there's nothing! Nada.

    Why you're not getting a response to your podcast pitch from me (or others) Said 27 Aug 2026

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  • The Pragmatic Engineer: Five years 1 Sept
  • All devs should learn Assembly 1 Sept
  • Almost every company now reports that engineering processes which worked fine for years have suddenly become outdated. 1 Sept
  • Writing is thinking, so an LLM inflating a one-sentence observation into three paragraphs destroys the thing that made it worth reading. 1 Sept
  • AI-written prose is an inferior read because a model emits a statistical average -- code's audience is a machine, writing's audience is people. 1 Sept
  • Not everyone is adopting AI 30 Aug

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  • The Pulse: Meta wanted to reduce teams by 60% because of AI 27 Aug
  • GTA 6 is not a game they're selling to players 27 Aug
  • A founder pitched as having a great deal to say on a topic has almost never written anything about it, and the absence is the tell. 27 Aug
  • Mass AI-written outreach fails on its own terms: playing the same numbers game as everyone else adds to the noise you then drown in. 27 Aug
  • Why performant code matters (but gets widely ignored), with Casey Muratori 26 Aug
  • Why performant code matters (but gets widely ignored), with Casey Muratori 26 Aug
  • What does a Google director do? 25 Aug
  • Why Ramp built its own in-house coding agent, Inspect 25 Aug
  • “Treat computing as an onion" 23 Aug
  • Google execs are coding again 21 Aug
  • The Pulse: We need to talk about migrations with AI 20 Aug
  • A better way to use AI agents: mutual amplification 20 Aug
  • From Chrome DevTools to AI Engineering, with Addy Osmani 19 Aug
  • Headed for the Exit: the Great Engineering Leader Career Break 18 Aug
  • It’s disrespectful to send AI slop 18 Aug
  • It’s respectable when managers want to go back to being ICs 16 Aug
  • The Pulse: Meta’s self-inflicted resignation-wave 14 Aug
  • Rich data is worth gold in observability 14 Aug
  • Get AI on your resume. Do it now. 13 Aug
  • Stop being skeptical about AI for development with Charity Majors 12 Aug
  • Software engineering at a proprietary trading company: Optiver 11 Aug
  • Even nuclear power plants don't formally verify software 11 Aug
  • Formal methods with Hillel Wayne 29 Jul
  • How building software is changing at Anthropic 28 Jul
  • The Pulse: Quitting Spotify Podcasts over reliability 23 Jul
  • Pushing software engineering limits with “napkin math” 21 Jul
  • The Pulse: Grok’s CLI caught uploading all your local files to the cloud 16 Jul
  • gergelyorosz 10 Jul 2025
  • building_a_simple_game — Project accompanying the article "Building a Simple Game" 22 Aug 2023
  • swift-objective-c-mixed-project — Creating a mixed Swift 2.0 & Objective C project 7 Nov 2022
  • engineering-resources — Engineering Resources 7 Apr 2017
  • gae-export-as-csv — Export Google App Engine data in csv format 2 Aug 2016
  • PythonGettingStarted — Getting started with Python 21 May 2016
  • BlogSkins — Ghost skins for different blogs that I run. 2 May 2016
  • ObjectiveCToSwiftStepByStep — Migrate Objective C Projects to Swift - Step By Step 23 Mar 2016
  • GhostSocialCasper — An extension to the Ghost Casper theme, adding a sidebar and social navigation links 7 Mar 2016