Explorers, exploiters, and the myth of the 100x engineer
There’s one in every engineering org: the person who picked up a coding agent first and started leaving everyone else in the dust. Once one or two engineers are operating…
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Stop Adding Indexes Like a Junior Dev: 5 Indexing Patterns That Turned a 12-sec Query into 8ms
Rewriting Java gets approval. Reading the execution plan earns ownership — 5 Postgres indexing patterns that separate juniors from seniors Press enter or click to view image in full size…
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Stateless MCP has recaptured my interest (and inspired mcp-explorer and datasette-mcp)
Stateless MCP has recaptured my interest (and inspired mcp-explorer and datasette-mcp) 31st July 2026 Tuesday was Stateless MCP day—the rollout of MCP 2.0, or the 2026-07-28 Model Context Protocol specification…
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Formal methods with Hillel Wayne
Listen and watch now on YouTube, Apple and Spotify. See the episode transcript at the top of this page, and timestamps for the episode at the bottom. • Antithesis —…
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Q2 2026 Employment Cost Index: Losing Ground
Real, annual wage growth dropped to -0.4% in Q2 2026, the first drop in purchasing power for workers since 2022. What surprised us: Real, inflation-adjusted wages and salaries for private-sector…
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The Economic Benefit of Refactoring
As part of getting to grips with the new world of agentic engineering, I built an application to support my work. It’s a sophisticated app: high-quality web UI with dynamic…
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What Happens During a Production Deployment? A Behind-the-Scenes Guide
Press enter or click to view image in full size You push your code. A few minutes later, it is live for real users. Between those two moments runs a…
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How to Build Kubernetes Operators: A Handbook for Devs
Kubernetes ships with controllers that manage a fixed set of built-in resources: Deployments, Services, Nodes, and so on. An operator extends the same pattern to resources Kubernetes doesn’t know about…
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The Pulse: New trend – concern about massive increase in code review load
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…
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No Dumb Questions: What is the AI bottleneck? How does context engineering fix it?
Welcome to the latest installment of No Dumb Questions, the series where Stack Overflow’s least technical writer asks technical staff the simple questions people are too afraid to ask. Phoebe…
