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The Pelican comparison grid for Astra is pretty interesting 4th September 2026 I got access to GPT-6 Astra this afternoon, so naturally I used it to generate SVGs of pelicans…

Wow, has it already been five years?! The newsletter hits a big milestone this week, and it wouldn’t have been possible without subscribers. Thanks to everyone who’s read an article…

About a year ago, I was offered a presentation slot at the WeAreDevelopers World Congress in Berlin. I rarely take speaking engagements, especially international ones, but this one arrived at…

Illustration generated specifically for this blog post. What building a blueprint-manifest auto-allow taught me — the wall that reviewed code keeps hitting, the provenance fix that clears it, and the measurement that took…

Agentic coding tools like Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, Google Antigravity, and Cursor have become ubiquitous for everyday software development. As agentic systems mature, much of the work developers have them…

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…

Praveen explains why his team moved off GraphRAG in favor of a tree-structured memory for faster incremental updates and how they balance retrieval freshness, latency budgets, and access control at…

Author Feat AI If you’ve been running a vector database at any real scale, you’ve probably hit the moment where you open your cloud bill and just… stare at it. RAM…

Understanding ChatGPT Work 30th August 2026 OpenAI announced ChatGPT Work on July 9th, and have been furiously iterating on it ever since. It is an extraordinarily confusing and very powerful…