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Gergely Orosz

@gergely.pragmaticengineer.com
13 posts
2026-01-06
The Reddit thread: www.reddit.com/r/confession...  Casey's interaction with the “whistleblower” where he gradually realizes all “evidence” is AI-generated, designed to fool even journalists... then he confronts the faker.  Worth the read  —  www.platformer.news/fake-uber- ea...  [image]
2026-01-06 View on X
The Verge

A viral Reddit post by a purported developer alleging that a “major food delivery app” exploits drivers appears AI-generated; Uber and DoorDash deny the claims

2025-11-03
Another instance of mainstream media reporting on a trend I covered in @pragmaticengineer.com months before.  —  This time with The Financial Times, 4 months later:  —  My deepdive in Aug: newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/ forward-de...  The FT yesrterday: www.ft.com/content/9100...  [image]
2025-11-03 View on X
Financial Times

Job listings show companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Cohere have stepped up hiring for forward-deployed engineers that help businesses adopt their AI models

This time with The Financial Times, 4 months later:  —  My deepdive in Aug: newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/ forward-de...  The FT yesrterday: www.ft.com/content/9100...  [image...

2025-10-21
Status pages everywhere show green, because Statuspage.io is ALSO down: customers cannot log in to update their status page and indicate the outage their eng teams know about!!  —  So a fail for Statuspage to depend on an AWS region... or DynamoDB (that seems to depend one AWS region?) [image]
2025-10-21 View on X
CNBC

AWS says services have “returned to normal operations” after a US-EAST-1 outage, first reported on October 20 at 3:11am ET, that affected major services

Amazon Web Services, a leader in the cloud infrastructure market, reported a major outage on Monday that took down numerous major websites.

2025-10-20
Status pages everywhere show green, because Statuspage.io is ALSO down: customers cannot log in to update their status page and indicate the outage their eng teams know about!!  —  So a fail for Statuspage to depend on an AWS region... or DynamoDB (that seems to depend one AWS region?) [image]
2025-10-20 View on X
The Verge

AWS says “the underlying DNS issue” is mitigated and most “operations are succeeding normally” after a huge US-EAST-1 outage; some services are still “impacted”

The cause of the AWS outage is currently unclear.

2025-09-20
The full order: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...  Because this cam out of the blue and sudden: other, similar orders could come out of the blue and sudden.  —  So those on visas will surely consider international travel a potential risk, and opt for zoom calls over flying when possible
2025-09-20 View on X
Reuters

The Trump administration says it would require companies to pay an annual $100,000 fee for H-1B visas, a move that could significantly impact the tech industry

- Visas are used principally by tech sector  — Over 70% of beneficiaries of H-1B visas enter US from India

2025-09-03
Average tenure at Meta increased from ~2 years to ~4 years since the 2023 layoffs.  Similar changes across most of Big Tech.  Basically, folks working in Big Tech are not leaving like before.  —  If that's not a smell on the market, not sure what is [embedded post]
2025-09-03 View on X
The Pragmatic Engineer

A deep dive into the state of the tech job market in 2025, including an increase in demand for AI engineers and a rising average tenure at Big Tech companies

A deepdive into today's tech jobs market, with exclusive data on tech jobs, AI engineering, Big Tech recruitment, the growing importance of location, and more Bluesky: @gergely.pra...

2025-07-20
Why did Cognition buy Windsurf?  One theory: Devin (their flagship product) is not popular with *experienced developers*, but Windsurf is.  —  Based on The Pragmatic Engineer Survey: 3,000 respondents, mostly experienced devs.  —  Note how other vibe-coding tools are also not popular with this group: [image]
2025-07-20 View on X
@jeffwsurf

Windsurf CEO Jeff Wang on what happened after co-founders Varun Mohan and Douglas Chen left for Google, and how Cognition's deal to acquire Windsurf unfolded

Based on The Pragmatic Engineer Survey: 3,000 respondents, mostly experienced devs.  —  Note how other vibe-coding tools are also not popular with this group: [image] Gergely Orosz...

One VERY good question:  —  How did the Windsurf team go from “we don't want Microsoft to access the IP for Windsurf” to “you know what, let's dump the Windsurf product + most of the team and go work at Google (with none of the IP!)”  —  Just a delay tactic to get an all-cash offer? [image]
2025-07-20 View on X
@jeffwsurf

Windsurf CEO Jeff Wang on what happened after co-founders Varun Mohan and Douglas Chen left for Google, and how Cognition's deal to acquire Windsurf unfolded

Based on The Pragmatic Engineer Survey: 3,000 respondents, mostly experienced devs.  —  Note how other vibe-coding tools are also not popular with this group: [image] Gergely Orosz...

2025-06-15
Cognition's article, discuss why it's too hard to build multi-agent systems (for them, at least) cognition.ai/blog/dont-bu...  Anthropic explaining how they overcame engineering challenges to build a multi-agent system: anthropic.com/engineering/...
2025-06-15 View on X
Anthropic

Anthropic details how it built its multi-agent Claude Research system, claiming significant improvements in internal evaluations over single-agent systems

Our Research feature uses multiple Claude agents to explore complex topics more effectively.  We share the engineering challenges …

2025-03-25
Here is a recent vulnerability disclosed for Next.js:  —  For sites using the Next.js middleware for auth, an attacker could bypass the Next.js middleware to get to any page, skipping auth checks here:  —  BUT.  —  If the site has more auth checks later, it wouldn't necessarily load
2025-03-25 View on X
CyberScoop

Researchers say a Next.js flaw that existed for several years could have let hackers bypass middleware-based authentication; Vercel patched the flaw on March 18

Next.js version 15.2.3 has been released to address a security vulnerability (CVE-2025-29927). zhero_web_security : Next.js and the corrupt middleware: the authorizing artifact Nat...

The vulnerability explained: zhero-web-sec.github.io/research- and...  On first read, it sounds like a very bad one.  However, looking closer:  —  1. Although the middleware can be used for auth(docs even mention this): it's rarely ever done for it (at least just by itself.)  It's more a “redirect engine”
2025-03-25 View on X
CyberScoop

Researchers say a Next.js flaw that existed for several years could have let hackers bypass middleware-based authentication; Vercel patched the flaw on March 18

Next.js version 15.2.3 has been released to address a security vulnerability (CVE-2025-29927). zhero_web_security : Next.js and the corrupt middleware: the authorizing artifact Nat...

2025-03-16
At least this dev will make some money off of this tool before  —  1. Dozens of similar ones come out  —  2. Most companies realize these interviews give no signal  —  It will be a cat-and-mouse game, but these tools will always be a step ahead
2025-03-16 View on X
CNBC

Google and other companies are considering bringing back in-person job interviews, as some startups sell AI tools that let engineers cheat in virtual interviews

After landing internship offers from Amazon, Meta and TikTok, computer science student Chungin “Roy” Lee has decided to move to San Francisco.

2025-01-10
Full announcement: automattic.com/2025/01/09/a...  Anyone looking for a stable ecosystem - with players acting rationally - will likely keep steering away from WordPress.  —  A summary of stranger and stranger events within WordPress: blog.pragmaticengineer.com/did- automatt...
2025-01-10 View on X
Automattic

Automattic plans to cut its WordPress contributions to ~45 hours per week “due to the lawsuits from WP Engine”, focusing mostly on security and critical updates

Automattic has always been deeply committed to the success of WordPress, dedicating significant resources and talent to its development for almost two decades.