The Pragmatic EngineerSep 3, 20261 min read

The Pulse: Meta wanted to reduce teams by 60% because of AI

An in-depth report by Reuters details how Meta’s leadership decided to slash team sizes by 60%. Zuckerberg changed his mind, and now the company is stuck with...

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The Pulse: Time to rethink software security because of AI?

A month’s worth of security breaches in a single day – will things get worse before they improve?

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The Pulse: Anthropic builds its own source control system

Git had too many performance problems at 30,000 PRs per day, so Anthropic built its own. I talked with the team, including asking why they didn’t open source...

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The19d ago

The Pulse: new trend of building “internal vibe-coding apps” at tech companies

Ramp and Stripe built platforms for non-engineers to build internal websites and tools with, and both are taking off in those workplaces. I expect more...

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