The Pulse: Quitting Spotify Podcasts over reliability
Hi, this is Gergely with a bonus, free issue of the Pragmatic Engineer Newsletter. In every issue, I cover Big Tech and startups through the lens of senior engineers and…
Hi, this is Gergely with a bonus, free issue of the Pragmatic Engineer Newsletter. In every issue, I cover Big Tech and startups through the lens of senior engineers and…
Phoebe Sajor: Hi Doug, Hi Ash, thank you for joining me for this No Dumb Questions. To start—what exactly is context architecture in AI and why do we care? Doug…
Photo by Shubham Dhage on Unsplash Model Context Protocol (MCP) was first introduced by Anthropic in November 2024 as an open source standard for connecting LLMs/AI Agents to data systems, whether…
Introducing Muse Glimmer (via) Meta are back in the open weights game! Muse Glimmer is a brand new 30B model under a clean Apache 2.0 license (a step up from…
Before we start: I’ll be in New York, on 15 September, presenting the keynote at LDX3 New York, doing a book signing, and hanging out with attendees. The focus of…
The US labor market saw negative job growth in July 2026, with Government and Leisure & Hospitality leading the declines. Key points: Nonfarm employers lost 23,000 jobs in July, and…
I was deep into a Claude Code session on a .NET codebase when a doubt interrupted the work. Four subagents were already running against a response-pipeline refactor, results were arriving…
Frontier coding models are becoming more capable, but using them for every task can become expensive quickly. That matters when an AI agent is part of your daily development workflow….
You’ve spent two weeks building an AI assistant. The streaming chat looks beautiful, the system prompt is tight, and safety filters are configured. You demoed it to the team, and…
Bending Spoons has announced buying Airtable for $1.285B in cash this week – which is less than the $1.4B in total funding Airtable has raised in the past, and well…