How are devs at AI startups and in Big Tech using AI tools, and what do they think of them? A broad overview of the state of play in tooling, with Anthropic, Google, Amazon, and others| newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com
From fear to optimism: why I am convinced AI is worth embracing.| Armin Ronacher's Thoughts and Writings
OpenAI CEO says he plans to use artificial intelligence to make software engineers more productive, rather than replacing them.| Windows Central
Cat Wu and Boris Cherny from the Claude Code team stop by to tell all!| Latent.Space
How to think about today’s AI tools, approaches that work well, and concerns about using them for development. Guest post by Birgitta Böckeler, Distinguished Engineer at Thoughtworks| newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com
Kent Beck—creator of Extreme Programming and co-author of the Agile Manifesto—reflects on decades of coding, from the birth of TDD to his experiments with AI tools shaping software’s future.| newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com
Explore the full LDX3 London agenda – talks, expert speakers, and activities. Plan your experience.| LeadDev London
Cursor has grown 100x in load in just a year, sees 1M+ QPS for its data layer, and serves billions of code completions, daily. A deepdive into how it’s built with cofounder, Sualeh Asif| newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com
Kat Cosgrove shares what Kubernetes actually does, how it’s structured and scaled, and why it’s become one of the most successful open-source projects in the world.| newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com
Varun Mohan, CEO of Windsurf, shares how building an AI-native IDE is reshaping software development—from optimizing LLM latency to enabling non-engineers to ship code.| newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com
The Model Context Protocol - that extends IDEs’ AI capabilities - is gaining rapid popularity. Why is this, and why should us developers pay attention to it?| newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com
The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is an open standard for connecting AI assistants to the systems where data lives, including content repositories, business tools, and development environments. Its aim is to help frontier models produce better, more relevant responses.| www.anthropic.com
uv is an extremely fast Python package and project manager, written in Rust.| docs.astral.sh
Stevey's Google Platforms Rant. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.| Gist
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