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We want to capture an accurate snapshot of software engineering, today – and need your help! Tell us about your tech stack and get early access to the final report, plus extra analysis Please help out by taking this 5-15 minute survey: forms.gle/hoK7TtaH1hx3...

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Imagine interviewing a candidate who looks like a very strong coder. Almost extending an offer. But turns out, the candidate is a deepfake. This actually happened with a startup called Vidoc Security - twice! Deepdive with all the details: newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/ai-fakers

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Today's deepdive looks at 20,000+ data points to understand compensation ranges for software engineers in the US, UK and India. Here are details for India - the first time this data is ever published. Data courtesy of Levels.fyi See all data: newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/trimodal

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Today's deepdive: Robotics for software engineers. A deepdive with Sandor Felber, Humanoid Robot Learning Researcher at MIT. A walk through on how a typical enough robotics projects goes from planning, through development to shipping. Read it here: newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/robotics

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Exciting announcement: paid The Pragmatic Engineer subscribers now have access to: - 12 months of Perplexity Pro ($200 in value) - 3 months of Kagi Ultimate with ($75 in value) Read more about details, and how to claim these: newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/free-kagi-...

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A mental model on the differences between native mobile, React Native and Flutter. More in today's deepdive that is a broad overview of cross-platform mobile development trends and technologies: newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/cross-plat...

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How AI-assisted coding will change software engineering: hard truths. About how these AI tools really work and how they could be the start of the return of software, as a craft. Based on a guest post by @addyosmani.bsky.social. Read it here: newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/how-ai-wil...

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How Shopify built their innovative 3D Live Globe in 2024. Tech stack: React + R3F, some Rails, Go, Flink+Kafka Details on how the team went from idea, through design, to shipping and oncall: newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/shopify-bl...

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Today's deepdive: How GenAI tools are reshaping software engineering recruitment. An interesting find: cover letters are practically dead (90%+ of them are AI-generated, according to hiring managers we spoke to.) More: newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/how-genai-...

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A roundup of deepdives brought to you by The Pragmatic Engineer the last 12 months. Including industry trends, real-world engineering challenges, engineering culture deepdives, and more. Also: we have a Black Friday deal! See it here: blog.pragmaticengineer.com/the-pragmati...

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Interesting: following a survey on social media asking software engineers what their favorite IDE is: the #1 mention was an upstart, Cursor. More details about this survey about the most popular IDEs with GenAI capabilities in today's deepdive: newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/ide-that-s...

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The grouped collection of all The Pragmatic Engineer articles published the last year: docs.google.com/document/d/1... Also: we have a Black Friday deal!

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The Pragmatic Engineer covers topics on software engineering, and stays away from politics. The day of the US election was a rare exception. We leaned into politics. Not "that" kind of politics: but tech workplace politics! Read it here: newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/how-to-bec...

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Startups hiring founding software engineers: where are they most likely to come from? The most common one happens to be: Google! More data and tips on how to hire from Big Tech to startups in today's deepdive: newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/hiring-fro...

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What is a "DST" and why should anyone building large and complex systems care? Today's deepdive goes into how to debug large, distributed systems, what a DST is, and how such a tool is built by Antithesis. Read it here: newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/antithesis

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Today is the day when we talk about politics. Not *that* politics... but the other kind! A guest post by Cindy Sridharan about how to be a more efficient software engineer at a mid-sized or large company. Read it here: newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/how-to-bec...

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Are you involved in tech interviews for software engineering roles (on either side of the table), and seeing how it’s being impacted by GenAI tooling, e.g. ChatGPT and similar? @pragmaticengineer.com wants to learn from you! DM me - or fill out forms.gle/1nw3wqvVzqux... - or both!

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New deepdive: Hiring software engineers and engineering leaders from Big Tech (Part 1) A deepdive into why hiring Big Tech talent can be a bad idea for startups, a look at cases when it works, and what makes it hard to recruit from Big Tech.t newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/hiring-fro...

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