Gergely Orosz
Writing The Pragmatic Engineer (@pragmaticengineer.com), the #1 technology newsletter on Substack. Author of The Software Engineer's Guidebook (engguidebook.com). Formerly at Uber, Skype, Skyscanner. More at pragmaticengineer.com
- After 15 straight years of being the prime minister of Hungary, Orban's popularity has nosedived thanks to the economy tanking. He is looking to lose power in 2026. His solution: a Russia-style crackdown to ban the remainder of the free press and the most popular political party
- What have I done 😅
- A dev I talked to said his favorite tool for development recently is called: (I was expecting some AI IDE) (Drumroll… it wasn’t) Tuple! It’s a lair programming tool that allows “taking over” the other person’s screen/IDE. Apparently his whole team uses it daily & love it
- Re-reading a classic. The photo doesn’t do justice to this 900-page book that is heavier than any other book I own Cannot recall reading a similarly extensive book about software development
- Stripe did something novel with transformers: they drastically reduced fraud rate with them. Turns out, they are no the only one thinking LLM architecture is useful in payments. Adyen, in January (4 months ago) - pretty much the same thinking and approach:
