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The Pragmatic Engineer

The Pragmatic Engineer

Gergely Orosz 63 Episodes Aug 19, 2026

Software engineering at Big Tech and startups, from the inside. Deepdives with experienced engineers and tech professionals who share their hard-earned lessons, interesting stories and advice they have on building software. Especially relevant for software engineers and engineering leaders: useful for those working in tech.

Episodes

From Chrome DevTools to AI Engineering, with Addy Osmani
From Chrome DevTools to AI Engineering, with Addy Osmani Aug 19, 2026 5495 Brought to You By:• Antithesis – verify your system’s correctness without human review or traditional integration tests – and avoid bugs or outages.• Google Cloud Run – run your code and host LLMs directly on top of Google’s scalable infrastructure, without having to worry about managing infra.• Sentry – application monitoring software considered “not bad” by millions of developers—Addy Osmani spe
Stop being skeptical about AI for development with Charity Majors
Stop being skeptical about AI for development with Charity Majors Aug 12, 2026 5132 Brought to You By:• Antithesis – verify your system’s correctness without human review or traditional integration tests – and avoid bugs or outages.• WorkOS – everything you need to make your app enterprise ready.• Buildkite – CI software built to absorb whatever your coding agents throw at the build queue—In 2025, it was rational to be skeptical about AI, but in 2026 it’s clear that AI is changin
Formal methods with Hillel Wayne
Formal methods with Hillel Wayne Jul 29, 2026 5022 Brought to You By:• Antithesis – verify your system’s correctness without human review or traditional integration tests – and avoid bugs or outages.• turbopuffer – a vector and full-text search engine built on object storage. It’s fast, cheap, and extremely scalable.• WorkOS – everything you need to make your app enterprise ready.—There’s a popular theory that AI will finally make formal verificat
Context engineering with Dex Horthy
Context engineering with Dex Horthy Jul 15, 2026 5544 Brought to You By:• Antithesis – verify your system’s correctness without human review or traditional integration tests – and avoid bugs or outages.• Buildkite – CI software built to absorb whatever your coding agents throw at the build queue.• Sentry – application monitoring software considered “not bad” by millions of developers.—Knowing how LLM contexts work and how to work around context limit
The Pragmatic Engineer AMA
The Pragmatic Engineer AMA Jul 8, 2026 4701 Brought to You By:• Antithesis – verify your system’s correctness without human review or traditional integration tests – and avoid bugs or outages.—In this special “ask me anything” episode of Pragmatic Engineer podcast, I am in the hot seat facing questions sent in by subscribers that are read out by guest Volodymyr Giginiak, CTO and cofounder of Wordsmith AI, a legal tech startup (note: I’m an
How Kent Beck shapes the software engineering industry
How Kent Beck shapes the software engineering industry Jul 1, 2026 8821 Brought to You By:• Antithesis – verify your system’s correctness without human review or traditional integration tests – and avoid bugs or outages.• turbopuffer – a vector and full-text search engine built on object storage. It’s fast, cheap, and extremely scalable.• WorkOS – everything you need to make your app enterprise ready.—Few have made as big an impact on software engineering as this week
Tech interviews with NeetCode
Tech interviews with NeetCode Jun 24, 2026 5349 Brought to You By:• Antithesis – verify your system’s correctness without human review or traditional integration tests – and avoid bugs or outages.• Sentry – application monitoring software considered “not bad” by millions of developers• Google Cloud Run – run your code and host LLMs directly on top of Google’s scalable infrastructure, without having to worry about managing infra.—Navdeep Singh –
CI/CD with Robert Erez
CI/CD with Robert Erez Jun 17, 2026 4488 Brought to You By:• Antithesis – verify your system’s correctness without human review or traditional integration tests – and avoid bugs or outages.• WorkOS – everything you need to make your app enterprise ready.• turbopuffer – a vector and full-text search engine built on object storage. It’s fast, cheap, and extremely scalable.—Robert Erez is a principal engineer at Octopus Deploy, and a longti
Kubernetes and retiring at the top with Kelsey Hightower
Kubernetes and retiring at the top with Kelsey Hightower Jun 3, 2026 10269 Brought to You By:• Antithesis – verify your system’s correctness without human review or traditional integration tests – and avoid bugs or outages.• Buildkite – CI software built to absorb whatever your coding agents throw at the build queue• Sentry – application monitoring software considered “not bad” by millions of developers—Kelsey Hightower went from a self-taught technician installing DSL m
Building OpenCode with Dax Raad
Building OpenCode with Dax Raad May 27, 2026 4805 Brought to You By:• Antithesis – verify your system’s correctness without human review or traditional integration tests – and avoid bugs or outages.• WorkOS – Everything you need to make your app enterprise ready.• turbopuffer – a vector and full-text search engine built on object storage. It’s fast, cheap, and extremely scalable.—OpenCode is one of the fastest-growing AI developer tools around, s
Why Rust is different, with Alice Ryhl
Why Rust is different, with Alice Ryhl May 20, 2026 3899 Brought to You By:• Antithesis – verify your system’s correctness without human review or traditional integration tests – and avoid bugs or outages.• Sentry⁠ – application monitoring software considered “not bad” by millions of developers• ⁠Craft Conference⁠: join Gergely, Kent Beck, Hillel Wayne and others at the conference dedicated to the art and science of software delivery craft.—Rust is one
TypeScript, C# and Turbo Pascal with Anders Hejlsberg
TypeScript, C# and Turbo Pascal with Anders Hejlsberg May 13, 2026 4509 Brought to You By:• Antithesis – verify your system’s correctness without human review or traditional integration tests – and avoid bugs or outages.• WorkOS – Everything you need to make your app enterprise ready.• turbopuffer – a vector and full-text search engine built on object storage. It’s fast, cheap, and extremely scalable.—Anders Hejlsberg is a living legend and one of the most influential

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