# ![@GergelyOrosz Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:26/cr:twitter::30192824.png) @GergelyOrosz Gergely Orosz

A recent AWS outage affected many services and companies, including Amazon's own services, highlighting the importance of multi-region resiliency and risk management. The outage impacted various companies, such as Pinterest, Substack, and Atlassian's status page, which was down during the outage, preventing customers from logging in and updating their status. The incident has sparked discussions on social media about the reliability of cloud services and the need for robust disaster recovery plans.

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### Social Influence

**Social category influence**
[technology brands](/list/technology-brands)  28.45% [stocks](/list/stocks)  #6388 [finance](/list/finance)  6.9% [social networks](/list/social-networks)  5.17% [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations)  2.59% [countries](/list/countries)  1.72% [products](/list/products)  1.72%

**Social topic influence**
[ai](/topic/ai) #5618, [if you](/topic/if-you) #1870, [devs](/topic/devs) #102, [what is](/topic/what-is) #2787, [in the](/topic/in-the) 6.03%, [claude code](/topic/claude-code) #253, [meta](/topic/meta) 5.17%, [products](/topic/products) #1111, [microsoft](/topic/microsoft) #3067, [future](/topic/future) 4.31%

**Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by**
[@statsig](/creator/undefined) [@steipete](/creator/undefined) [@ashtom](/creator/undefined) [@pragmaticeng](/creator/undefined) [@workos](/creator/undefined) [@grinich](/creator/undefined) [@tbpn](/creator/undefined) [@rockatanescu](/creator/undefined) [@steveyegge](/creator/undefined) [@sonarsource](/creator/undefined) [@openclaw](/creator/undefined) [@gradybooch](/creator/undefined) [@entirehq](/creator/undefined) [@prcrecluse674](/creator/undefined) [@serceman](/creator/undefined) [@y_molodtsov](/creator/undefined) [@xpasky](/creator/undefined) [@rheinwein](/creator/undefined) [@mitsuhiko](/creator/undefined) [@michlimlim](/creator/undefined)

**Top assets mentioned**
[Microsoft Corp. (MSFT)](/topic/microsoft) [Alphabet Inc Class A (GOOGL)](/topic/$googl) [Sumo Logic, Inc. (SUMO)](/topic/$sumo) [New Relic, Inc. (NEWR)](/topic/$newr) [Spotify Technology (SPOT)](/topic/$spot)
### Top Social Posts
Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours

"Im talking AI-native teams. There is NO work handover because tasks and projects are now finished the same day by devs. But now split globally the team can respond to eg customers bugs nearly 24/7 THIS is new"  
[X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/2021468022092005847)  2026-02-11T06:15Z 313.3K followers, [----] engagements


"The company that created Claude Code and Claude Cowork must have obviously built their own HR solution from scratch with these tools right No: they use Workday. Understand why this is and you'll understand why enterprise SaaS could be doing better than ever thanks to AI the worst part about working at a company that keeps getting more successful is that gradual switch to enterprise-grade internal tools that no one likes using (see: workday) the worst part about working at a company that keeps getting more successful is that gradual switch to enterprise-grade internal tools that no one likes"  
[X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/2015723937376673905)  2026-01-26T09:50Z 313.3K followers, 1.2M engagements


"Once again @Steve_Yegge talks truth to power. He also has a history of being right quite a lot. Including calling it mid-2025 how writing code by hand will be over and late [----] how agent orchestration will be the next hot topic with AI coding. Full: https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/steve-yegge-on-ai-agents-and-the https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/steve-yegge-on-ai-agents-and-the"  
[X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/2021351772502229077)  2026-02-10T22:33Z 313.3K followers, 30.2K engagements


"Podcast with Steve McConnell: My podcast with Scott where the clip is from: https://hanselminutes.com/1032/where-is-ai-taking-us-with-the-pragmatic-programmer-gergely-orosz https://youtu.be/iPKmcLxuS_Asi=hsUD_5AY8iTtSfvM https://hanselminutes.com/1032/where-is-ai-taking-us-with-the-pragmatic-programmer-gergely-orosz https://youtu.be/iPKmcLxuS_Asi=hsUD_5AY8iTtSfvM"  
[X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/2021871402606121377)  2026-02-12T08:58Z 313.3K followers, [----] engagements


"Imagine having a $300K+ year job at Apple. Then notice Apple matches charity donations up to $10K/year and deciding you want that additional $10K/yr. So you defraud Apple with a fake charity to funnel the matching contribution back to you. [--] ex-employees did this. Just wow:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1876150972562690092)  2025-01-06T06:17Z 313.1K followers, 1.9M engagements


"To add insult to irony they got bought by the exact same PE firm that bought Sumo Logic (Francisco Partners) and to which New Relic predicted will increase prices while reducing quality hah"  
[X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1977844307035070569)  2025-10-13T21:10Z 311.8K followers, 16K engagements


"OK I have to admit I was surprised to meet engineers and EMs today who work in the Warsaw office of: - Google - NVIDIA - Netflix - Snowflake - Meta - Superhuman - Wix Cant name another city in Europe save for London with this much concentration of Big Tech + hot startups Warsaw quietly became the engineering hub of Europe. The city is home to engineering offices of top global AI and tech companies: [--]. OpenAI [--]. Mistral AI [--]. ElevenLabs [--]. Google [--]. Snowflake [--]. Netflix [--]. Affirm [--]. Dropbox [--]. Box [--]. Amazon (AWS) [--]. Microsoft [--]. Meta [--]. https://t.co/5vo1I4Rfja Warsaw quietly became the"  
[X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/2001086410460172491)  2025-12-17T00:25Z 311.8K followers, 121.8K engagements


"I'm hiring For a pretty fun job if you ask me. Talk to some of the most interesting teams and companies across the globe understand what they do then explain this to fellow software engineers. Full-remote flexible 150+/$175+ per hour Details: https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/tech-industry-analyst-2026/ https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/tech-industry-analyst-2026/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/2013667303653560584)  2026-01-20T17:37Z 311.6K followers, 185.3K engagements


"Hint: when a value proposition of an enterprise SaaS platform is domain expertise compliance or legal: it's a "buy" not "build" Workday offers all three bundled in one To build Workday in-house you need to become a HR + employment law expert in 100+ countries"  
[X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/2015724659430322468)  2026-01-26T09:53Z 311.6K followers, 81K engagements


"It gets better: Dynatrace said "no we don't want to host" the project that now became the hottest AI-related project. More interest this week than in Claude Code This is why traditional companies have trouble attracting entrepreneurial people and thus cannot compete w startups An AI-powered observability platform not seeing the value in hosting the one of the biggest AI builder meetup they already agreed to do so Talk about signalling your tool is to be avoided by builders Their loss others gain An AI-powered observability platform not seeing the value in hosting the one of the biggest AI"  
[X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/2016172416242745834)  2026-01-27T15:32Z 311.8K followers, 34.9K engagements


"Massive divide Im seeing: A) Startups where the founder hands-on building with the latest AI tools and best models sees first-hand what this means and championing everyone to use it not caring about $$$ B) founder not engaged devs still think AI (aka Copilot) is meh"  
[X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/2016443395405705533)  2026-01-28T09:29Z 312K followers, 212K engagements


"How @steipete created @openclaw while travelling and the "holy cow" moment that made him realize this is something special Full episode in The Pragmatic Engineer Podcast: (absolutely worth it if you want to understand how he built it / builds it) https://www.youtube.com/watchv=8lF7HmQ_RgY https://www.youtube.com/watchv=8lF7HmQ_RgY"  
[X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/2016981795200188554)  2026-01-29T21:08Z 312.1K followers, 44.8K engagements


"I like this final name better 🦀 Of course because Anthropic demanded the first name to be change (similarity to Claude) you might wonder if OpenAI could do the same the future. In what is an absolute boss move @steipete called Sam and asked then changed the name The lobster has molted into its final form 🦞 Clawd Moltbot OpenClaw 100k+ GitHub stars. 2M visitors in a week. And finally a name that'll stick. Your assistant. Your machine. Your rules. https://t.co/d39LXKRE9h The lobster has molted into its final form 🦞 Clawd Moltbot OpenClaw 100k+ GitHub stars. 2M visitors in a week. And finally"  
[X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/2017141233991221335)  2026-01-30T07:42Z 311.9K followers, 246.3K engagements


"You shouldnt need a Microsoft account (or any vendor-specific account) to use your own PC as a gaming rig Good news you no longer will need to. Linux won the battle of servers 10-20 years ago now coming to gaming Love to see it Nvidia GeForce Now is officially on Linux and after testing it I'm equal parts impressed and optimistic for the future of non-Windows gaming https://t.co/UGC4aeTY5q Nvidia GeForce Now is officially on Linux and after testing it I'm equal parts impressed and optimistic for the future of non-Windows gaming https://t.co/UGC4aeTY5q"  
[X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/2017228769845526597)  2026-01-30T13:29Z 311.8K followers, 128.7K engagements


"Even though AI agents make me more productive: when I use them I end up working more not less Its such a contradiction: a thing that should be saving time ends up taking away more overall time A reason I find it hard to believe AI will lead to fewer hours/days worked"  
[X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/2017560150366626075)  2026-01-31T11:26Z 312.1K followers, 67.7K engagements


"Dates remain an amusing challenge in software. Got a complaint from a customer that they bought a subscription at 6pm their time on the 31st Jan but got a receipt with the date as [--] Feb. This is wrong - and they are right But from the servers POV the date is right"  
[X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/2017837751605801183)  2026-02-01T05:49Z 311.9K followers, 99.7K engagements


"Pull requests (PRs) are dead long live prompt requests (also PRs) By @steipete - this is how he actually uses them Worth thinking if this only applies to some open source projects like @openclaw or might be more broad. Full: https://www.youtube.com/watchv=8lF7HmQ_RgY https://www.youtube.com/watchv=8lF7HmQ_RgY"  
[X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/2017850920206250159)  2026-02-01T06:42Z 312.7K followers, 34.8K engagements


"I'll have @Steve_Yegge - who built Beads Gast Town and has strong opinions - on the podcast. What is something you're interested him talk about"  
[X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/2017853054175814014)  2026-02-01T06:50Z 311.6K followers, 12.5K engagements


"Talk about predicting an industry trend writing a book about it and being right. The back cover of Vibe Coding by @Steve_Yegge and @RealGeneKim printed fall [----]. So they were convinced spring/summer [----] that writing code by hand would be over. Well before Opus 4.5"  
[X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/2017908062690877852)  2026-02-01T10:29Z 312.4K followers, 15K engagements


"Two things can be true at the same time: [--]. AI tools *are* making devs more productive [--]. This productivity change is invisible from the outside - now Take the story of two bricklayers: one of them building the wall by hand the other constructing a brick laying machine. Then why has there been [--] and I mean [--] useful features added to any Meta product in the last year. Meta engineers out here writing tests that do nothing and their CFO is acting like theyre all robocops (thats a movie from [----] years ago). Then why has there been [--] and I mean [--] useful features added to any Meta product in the"  
[X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/2017922250809491652)  2026-02-01T11:25Z 312.4K followers, 46.2K engagements


"Take the hypothetical example of eg a project management software vendor with [---] devs. If AI makes all of them more productive and [---] can do the same work as now: would the other [---] eg build an observability + paging tool to expand the business - years before it was planned Or if they did not do this - but say cut [---] people to further increase profits - could they suddenly be under threat by all the other observability vendors that now built project management tooling integrated into their offering"  
[X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/2017925830689821127)  2026-02-01T11:39Z 311.9K followers, 22.1K engagements


". or when it comes to measuring the impact of AI. Laura Tacho (@rhein_wein) is also based in Vienna Will be delivering the keynote at The Pragmatic Summit on [--] Feb and wrote this outstanding summary on how Big Tech measures AI impact: https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/how-tech-companies-measure-the-impact-of-ai People don't realize how hard Vienna is cooking right now when it comes to AI Agents OpenClaw by @steipete is from Vienna PI by @badlogicgames is from Vienna NOT ANNOUNCED YET by @mitsuhiko is from Vienna 🔥❤🔥"  
[X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/2017931402226835845)  2026-02-01T12:01Z 311.8K followers, 12.8K engagements


"A pretty realistic take. Whether you find it grim depends if you are building a startup to take on an incubent or are an incubent wanting to avoid just this https://x.com/mark_attar/status/2017926422359150957s=20 @GergelyOrosz my guess is that lot of those vendors go under as a few of them and a bunch of new startups or the labs create far more general elegant solutions that solve for the same problems that the vendors do but maybe in much larger bundles etc https://x.com/mark_attar/status/2017926422359150957s=20 @GergelyOrosz my guess is that lot of those vendors go under as a few of them"  
[X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/2017931806293586180)  2026-02-01T12:03Z 311.8K followers, 26.5K engagements


"Its rare to talk with someone who is clearly an unusually standout dev (pre-AI) but then a 3-year break with no screens helped him have no priors dive head-first into maxing out these new tools and doing what is probably the future of engineering software. Then explain it. Took me the whole day to watch in batches but this is probably one of the best interviews I've ever seen. Top levels of mastery here. @steipete interviewed by @GergelyOrosz https://t.co/2i0BfMPTYG Took me the whole day to watch in batches but this is probably one of the best interviews I've ever seen. Top levels of mastery"  
[X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/2018017819879784757)  2026-02-01T17:45Z 312.2K followers, 80.8K engagements


"When is Gmail either exposing an API / MCP to feed email to my agent - to review inbounds archive unimportat ones draft responses etc Or when is Google building this My inbox is getting so much more AI-generated junk coming its way. There should be a better way to deal w it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/2018304654866854353)  2026-02-02T12:45Z 311.9K followers, 19.6K engagements


"This person deeply regrets engaging. The anon crypto crowd is just so deeply rotten in so many ways my blood is boiling. I will never engage with this garbage and do not recommend anyone to do"  
[X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/2018306205110935800)  2026-02-02T12:51Z 311.7K followers, [----] engagements


"Inside a group of [--] CTOs + founders. Talking about hiring new grads. [--] of them violently agreeing to how amazing University of Waterloo Canada is doing something so right - and their goto place to hire standout interns + new grads. What is Waterloo doing others are not"  
[X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/2018376558151430186)  2026-02-02T17:30Z 312.9K followers, 175.6K engagements


"They apparently have an amazing co-op program that makes a massive difference. And new grads thus have far far more real-world experience under their belt than most universities (at good companies) Ty for all the comments https://x.com/astuyve/status/2018383608117973340s=20 @GergelyOrosz It's the long term result of their coop program and more importantly the reputation it created https://x.com/astuyve/status/2018383608117973340s=20 @GergelyOrosz It's the long term result of their coop program and more importantly the reputation it created"  
[X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/2018390019757723981)  2026-02-02T18:24Z 311.8K followers, 32.8K engagements


"Nothing shows what the #1 operating system for "modern" devs is than OpenAI launching Codex desktop Mac-only (for now.) Windows really fumbled the dev market years ago. Apple won it by avoiding the series of upsets Microsoft just could not help themselves (ads MS account etc)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/2018439840916996224)  2026-02-02T21:42Z 312K followers, 77.1K engagements


"Software reliability is down across the industry; failure rate is up: and batch size is up. @rhein_wein + Nathan Harvey Basically AI is generating larger changes (batch size) and we know from research (eg DORA) that larger batch size tends to result in exactly this"  
[X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/2018464985937215644)  2026-02-02T23:22Z 311.8K followers, 38K engagements


"This is what is happening at so many AI native companies where devs moved over to use AI CLIs are much more productive but from the outside there arent that many more features launching. They are building much better internal tools (and getting rid of existing SaaS btw) we've been quietly building our own [--] - [--] revenue stack internally at @tryramp - Ramp Revenue. our teams mandate is simple - help our sales team win drive more pipeline and build the most efficient gtm org in the world. it's powered by our customer data platform (processes https://t.co/Pjupf3wKlG we've been quietly building"  
[X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/2018688266938048700)  2026-02-03T14:09Z 313.1K followers, 68K engagements


"Not a product failure. These are usually businesses with mature enough products. They wont launch anything that is not a value-add for customers. Usually they prototype a bunch of new ideas + beta test as well parallel w internal. Most are just not good enough to launch so they dont"  
[X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/2018691414041710955)  2026-02-03T14:21Z 311.6K followers, [----] engagements


"From a distinguished eng inside a *really* old school tech co: My team built an internal tool called AskCode in a few months. We hooked it up to all our internal code+services. A super anti-AI sr dev just posted on the internal Slack: this is the single best thing I used"  
[X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/2018703746667020497)  2026-02-03T15:10Z 313K followers, 91.8K engagements


"OK this was Wealthsimple I can now confirm with a name. Their CTO pulled the trigger and it's going great so far. Respect. Deepdive on them (and [--] other companies in how they choose new tools): https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/measuring-ai-dev-tools "Earlier all devs used GitHub Copilot. [--] months ago we rolled out Cursor to all devs. [---] weeks ago we rolled out Claude Code to everyone and cancelled our Copilot subscription" - CTO at a company with [---] engineers (I hear this exact "transition" story a LOT) https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/measuring-ai-dev-tools "Earlier all"  
[X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/2018738035807146125)  2026-02-03T17:27Z 312K followers, 86K engagements


"One weird thing about AI: Old school companies laggards and government agencies are adopting AI dev tooling for their engineers pretty much the same pace as eg cutting-edge startups. They are not years/a decade behind like usual: but months behind at most"  
[X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/2018822300234399810)  2026-02-03T23:01Z 312K followers, 30.1K engagements


"So I tried out Manus for deep research ("research this topic"). Works nice similarly good to eg Claude or Perplexity. But then I now pay 2x what Claude or Perplexity costs and I still get this - and get blocked from using it at all for the next month I churned (not for me)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/2018832733800484899)  2026-02-03T23:43Z 311.9K followers, 12.3K engagements


"I'm at a point in time when I have 4-5 LLM subscriptions and run everything parallel. I keep ones that work good/better than most. For my use case Manus was not better than the other options but this credits system+stopping midway before finishing a task not doing it for me"  
[X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/2018833299213517305)  2026-02-03T23:45Z 311.9K followers, [----] engagements


"As in Manus will start a task go midway then say "sorry pay more to continue and finish this thing" Don't know what Meta will do with them - the product is pretty good but how they charge for it is terrible IMO (compared to the competition)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/2018833588545036755)  2026-02-03T23:46Z 311.9K followers, [----] engagements


"Crypto is absolutely toxic: with these shitcoins tied to a project (that has nothing to do with crypto) insiders launching the coin take 90% of the profits. Everyone else loses & balmes the project Buddy: who do you think you bought that coin from Worth [--] for $$ And people wonder why I don't support crypto. Got so much love from that community. "Lobster from the base" could be a really cool band tho. https://t.co/7pOa0pdmG4 And people wonder why I don't support crypto. Got so much love from that community. "Lobster from the base" could be a really cool band tho. https://t.co/7pOa0pdmG4"  
[X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/2019028459700535675)  2026-02-04T12:41Z 312.1K followers, 26K engagements


"The GitHub Copilot really shot themselves in the foot by keeping a far worse default model as default - and so one more reason teams are underwhelmed and switching away. And the perception that Copilot is outdated. Defaults matter and most devs dont bother switching @GergelyOrosz in your latest deepdive you mention how in one case GitHub Copilot adoption was hindered by an underwhelming model being selected by default. We've hit the exact same issue ourselves I even opened an issue. @pierceboggan https://t.co/CJH2HoATUQ https://t.co/klOZ0H4vcF @GergelyOrosz in your latest deepdive you mention"  
[X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/2019069502579986893)  2026-02-04T15:24Z 312.1K followers, 37.3K engagements


"A massive upgrade while travelling has been getting a portable 15-inch monitor with a foldable stand. I can now setup a 2-screen workplace wherever - and it's been a massive unlock for me. Could not recommend it more for any techie on the go (there are tons of brands for this)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/2019809054630281316)  2026-02-06T16:22Z 313K followers, 27.7K engagements


"Wow: "With AI fixing bugs has become SO much faster. All my engineers have [--] agents open fixing issues in parallel. When on customer calls and I see an issue: I immediately either open a ticket or kick off an agent to fix it" - @michlimlim on how they work at @tryflint"  
[X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/2019825331360919829)  2026-02-06T17:27Z 313.1K followers, 46.1K engagements


"Feels like the future of how many teams will work tbh That "magical" moment of a startup fixing a bug you reported in a day or two will [--]. Become everyday for decently run startups [--]. Become much faster The impact on quality across the industry could be huge as this spreads"  
[X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/2019825708923826186)  2026-02-06T17:29Z 312.2K followers, 11.4K engagements


"If you are a dev / eng manager and would like to get a detailed report on how dev teams actually use AI tools what is trending down/up: share what you do in our @Pragmatic_Eng survey and we'll share back a detailed report: You can take the survey here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/tpe-ai-survey-2026 https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/tpe-ai-survey-2026"  
[X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/2019826720598290764)  2026-02-06T17:33Z 312.2K followers, 12.3K engagements


"@intelliot its a [----] Macbook. M1. This thing lasts forever Prob time for an upgrade but how well it holds up is just amazing"  
[X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/2019829016346464259)  2026-02-06T17:42Z 312K followers, [---] engagements


"@RahulBagal__ Railway actually is a very modern and timely choice"  
[X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/2020025151581221379)  2026-02-07T06:41Z 312.1K followers, [---] engagements


"Open source contributions worked before AI because it took time and effort for anyone to put together a pull request. AI not only reduces this to zero but AI agents sometimes automatically open PRs () This is a much-needed solution and more projects will prob adopt it: AI eliminated the natural barrier to entry that let OSS projects trust by default. People told me to do something rather than just complain. So I did. Introducing Vouch: explicit trust management for open source. Trusted people vouch for others. https://t.co/Ift5qOnani The idea AI eliminated the natural barrier to entry that"  
[X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/2020318860738715821)  2026-02-08T02:08Z 313K followers, 17.3K engagements


"@Dr_Gingerballs @Pragmatic_Eng @Grady_Booch I cannot talk for Grady but can talk for myself. Yes LLMs are nondeterministic and this is a massive change from any tool before. At the same time they are very powerful nondeterministic tools that work especially well when hooked up with deterministic loops (eg tests)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/2021027619660234834)  2026-02-10T01:05Z 312.8K followers, [---] engagements


"@Dr_Gingerballs @Pragmatic_Eng @Grady_Booch And on my case: I write almost all my code via promoting / using English language not writing code. To me this is a level of abstraction moving up. If you disagree: you are welcome to ofc This was about one persons view"  
[X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/2021027950104322388)  2026-02-10T01:06Z 312.8K followers, [--] engagements


"Come on man. Blockchain has little to no practical use outside of unregulated finance workarounds. Never got involved as this was clear. For AI I use products daily (and pay for them): Granola Perplexity Claude Cowork Codex etc etc. I get utility I did not get before (eg spend less time taking meeting notes w Granola do more thorough research w Perplexity etc) https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021053323885813926 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021053323885813926"  
[X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/2021053323885813926)  2026-02-10T02:47Z 312.8K followers, [---] engagements


"@csloane @WorkOS @grinich sure but that's been the case with every tech innovation phase no Lots of groundbreaking stuff built and even more die trying"  
[X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/2021108270526758980)  2026-02-10T06:25Z 313K followers, [---] engagements


"RT @statsig: It's finally Pragmatic Summit Day with @GergelyOrosz 🔴 Weve already kicked off with incredible mainstage sessions and we're"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2021872048004563124)  2026-02-12T09:00Z 313.1K followers, [--] engagements


"I was at a founders + CTOs event for 10-500 person startups. Founders and CTOs at these companies burn some of the most tokens and increasingly ship a bunch of code to production (when they did zero [--] months ago) It used to be that if you coded after a level of seniority you were viewed as someone who cannot let go and cannot scale - a sign of weakness not strength. That perception is changing very rapidly It used to be that if you coded after a level of seniority you were viewed as someone who cannot let go and cannot scale - a sign of weakness not strength. That perception is changing very"  
[X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/2021868614668931457)  2026-02-12T08:46Z 313.3K followers, 53.9K engagements


"After The Oragmatic Summit Linear CTO @artman told me in [--] years they shipped [----] Quality Wednesdays improvements. And its not that @linear was ever buggy: but that there are SO many tiny fixes (and some larger changes) most products never get to And it adds up TIL: @linear forces engineers to ship one polish fix every Wednesday. 1000+ micro-improvements later the product feels premium. Learned that from @artman where I spoke on a panel with him and Drew Hoskins. Takeaway: Taste doesnt happen accidentally. Culture manufactures https://t.co/wmCUFh4dIw TIL: @linear forces engineers to ship one"  
[X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/2022446435824996568)  2026-02-13T23:03Z 313.3K followers, [----] engagements


"Linear has a 30-minute weekly meeting called "Quality Wednesdays." I sat through one and WOW Devs show a quality or perf-related fix they did last week. It can be big or small. We went through [--] issues from massive backend performance wins to this tiny one. Can you see it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1970855759639425349)  2025-09-24T14:20Z 313.3K followers, 246.3K engagements


"I am so excited to announce The Pragmatic Summit in partnership with @statsig [--] Feb SF. One day. [---] people. Answering the question: How is AI reshaping software engineering dev workflows and the modern engineering stack Details & apply here: https://www.pragmaticsummit.com/ https://www.pragmaticsummit.com/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1991570672125186383)  2025-11-20T18:13Z 313.3K followers, 122.9K engagements


"What Im hearing: large open source projects are being absolutely hammered by AI-generated security reports. To the point of not being able to handle them. Feeling is lots of ppl want an easy way to put a CVE on their CV and collect $$ for bug bounty. Super bad for maintainers"  
[X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/2016254213030834532)  2026-01-27T20:57Z 313.3K followers, 75.6K engagements


"So true this: "There is TONS of arbitrage right now in a) learning and building a AI portfolio and b) sharing in public/networking." People building+sharing AI-native products that gain even a little traction are seeing incredible inbound: both jobs + investors + acqui-hire AI has raised the bar on the basics and is creating insane competition for talent. I get asked all the time who is a great CTO/CPO/vp prod/PM/staff eng all the time. And usually my response is: there is no one good you can get. Because its not can someone take this seat AI has raised the bar on the basics and is creating"  
[X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/2020571450369826896)  2026-02-08T18:52Z 313.3K followers, 96.4K engagements


"Here's what GitHub's last CEO @ashtom has been up to: building an agent-first dev platform. I'm an investor. They just shipped Checkpoints. It's open source easy to use. It adds agent context (eg trajectories prompts token usage etc) to PRs. Get it at http://entire.io tl;dr Today were announcing our new company @EntireHQ to build the next developer platform for agenthuman collaboration. Open scalable independent and backed by a $60M seed round. Plus we are shipping Checkpoints to automatically capture agent context. In the last three http://entire.io tl;dr Today were announcing our new"  
[X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/2021264784683860436)  2026-02-10T16:47Z 313.3K followers, 285.7K engagements


"Coincidence or not: the first event @ashtom is headed after announcing @EntireHQ is The Pragmatic Summit. He'll spill some beans here 🍿 He'll be both on-stage on Wednesday and attendees can find him off-stage as well tl;dr Today were announcing our new company @EntireHQ to build the next developer platform for agenthuman collaboration. Open scalable independent and backed by a $60M seed round. Plus we are shipping Checkpoints to automatically capture agent context. In the last three tl;dr Today were announcing our new company @EntireHQ to build the next developer platform for agenthuman"  
[X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/2021495547698479447)  2026-02-11T08:04Z 313.3K followers, 22.7K engagements


"My respect for Steve McConnell went up 10x when I learned that he wrote Code Complete (900 pages) when he had about [--] years of professional experience (and took off a year from work to just write the book.) He did it because he looked for this book but didnt find it Steve McConnell wrote [---] pages that became the Bible for [--] years. He had five years of experience. The publisher didn't even think it would sell. https://t.co/M2dEk7z0aD https://t.co/uaD4cZarJY Steve McConnell wrote [---] pages that became the Bible for [--] years. He had five years of experience. The publisher didn't even think it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/2021871003597779000)  2026-02-12T08:56Z 313.3K followers, 31.4K engagements


"Give engineers subpar tools what could possibly go wrong a) competitors out-ship AWS (eg Vercel where Claude Code is used by so many and they are on 🔥) b) frustrated engineers interview elsewhere and take offers at places where Claude Code or similar is not banned Lovely New: Amazon engineers are frustrated they cant use Anthropics Claude Code in production without approval and are steered to AWSs Kiro instead. Highlights the complexity of Amazon's relationship with Anthropic. https://t.co/xnDkgNaOl4 New: Amazon engineers are frustrated they cant use Anthropics Claude Code in production"  
[X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/2021890475503112366)  2026-02-12T10:13Z 313.3K followers, 64.4K engagements


"Got to love it when the market leader voluntarily surrenders their lead to competitors Just so someone on the Kiro team can hit their company-wide adoption OKR and collect that $ bonus come Feb [----] This is why startups always have a chance vs the big guy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/2021891246860775800)  2026-02-12T10:16Z 313.3K followers, 18K engagements


""A controversial take I have: Most people who are AI-native in building software do not build AI-native software. It's like the beginning of the internet when merchant websites tried to copy the physical world instead of creating native e-commerce websites." - via @rauchg"  
[X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/2022013742968713342)  2026-02-12T18:23Z 313.3K followers, 61.8K engagements


"How was one of the most loved programming languages - Kotlin - created and what is next after it With @abreslav creator of Kotlin now building @codespeak_dev Watch: 00:00 Intro 02:02 Why Kotlin was created 07:26 Dynamic vs. static languages 10:27 Andrey joins the Kotlin project 15:26 Designing a new language 20:40 Frontend vs. Backend in language design 22:05 Why is it named Kotlin 25:37 Kotlin vs. Java tradeoffs 29:32 Null safety 32:24 Scala Groovy C# influence 40:12 Smart casts 45:54 Java interoperability 56:01 Kotlin's development process 1:08:20 Android 1:19:20 CodeSpeak: a language for"  
[X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/2022053570783445453)  2026-02-12T21:01Z 313.3K followers, 10.2K engagements


"Other platforms: YouTube: Spotify: Apple: Summary and transcript: https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/the-programming-language-after-kotlin https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-programming-language-after-kotlin-with/id1769051199i=1000749488234 https://open.spotify.com/episode/5vPcvIKI63g1SnqZdZCXsL https://youtu.be/ZggUn2mNqMU https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/the-programming-language-after-kotlin https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-programming-language-after-kotlin-with/id1769051199i=1000749488234 https://open.spotify.com/episode/5vPcvIKI63g1SnqZdZCXsL"  
[X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/2022053708058833384)  2026-02-12T21:02Z 313.3K followers, [----] engagements


"Love catching up with fellow writers / deep thinkers who equally love the craft"  
[X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/2022195670048985314)  2026-02-13T06:26Z 313.3K followers, 26.5K engagements


"I have seen this movie again and again: downtime like this silently kills infra startups exactly because stories like this spread An infra SaaS needs to do one thing and one thing only: be up. If youre down you failed at your #1 job If you are repeatedly down: you will die 💀 talk about bad timing: we just announced our fundraise but @supabase has been down for [--] hours and all the new users cannot signup https://t.co/tm0vpCd9jc 💀 talk about bad timing: we just announced our fundraise but @supabase has been down for [--] hours and all the new users cannot signup https://t.co/tm0vpCd9jc"  
[X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/2022414955514155230)  2026-02-13T20:57Z 313.3K followers, 74.3K engagements


"And here is [--] of the 3000: 99.9% of companies would never notice or fix something as small as a 1pm misalignment And yet at Linear it was a big round of applause for the dev who did it - and it keeps happening week after week AI cannot and will not do this Linear has a 30-minute weekly meeting called "Quality Wednesdays." I sat through one and WOW Devs show a quality or perf-related fix they did last week. It can be big or small. We went through [--] issues from massive backend performance wins to this tiny one. Can you see it https://t.co/BzBRfeY0My Linear has a 30-minute weekly meeting called"  
[X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/2022447029713076532)  2026-02-13T23:05Z 313.3K followers, [----] engagements


"@samlambert thanks - an engineer once an engineer forever Most engineers are just quiet on social media (which is a shame because lots yappers get real loud talking stuff they have no understanding of)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/2022448986314121605)  2026-02-13T23:13Z 313.3K followers, [---] engagements


"We'll look back at this week as an inflection point when Big Tech lost its former attractiveness. It will be stories like Justin's and the countless ones to be told where many realize that during layoffs people become numbers and 8% of those numbers need to be "marked.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1616542572456955923)  2023-01-20T21:05Z 313.3K followers, 1.3M engagements


"Perplexity is at crossroads. If they continue this course: Today: Tomorrow:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1927339388205195503)  2025-05-27T12:21Z 313.3K followers, 530.8K engagements


"I still think about when New Relic wrote a blog arguing that customers should leave vendors acquired by private equity (PE) b/c prices will go up+quality will go down. It was a stab at Sumo Logic just bought by PE. [--] months later New Relic got bought by PE.and deleted the blog"  
[X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1977844004910952544)  2025-10-13T21:08Z 313.3K followers, 55K engagements


"Welcome to the new tech job market that increasingly represents other non-tech white collar job markets: [--]. Referrals are the best way to get a job [--]. References greatly matter [--]. Pedigree (past job college etc) becomes more important [--]. Background checks more thorough I'm hiring an engineer now. I've never seen so many fraudulent resumes phone screens code samples etc. LLM slop has flooded the engineering hiring market which means I think hires are going to be even more network-based than before. That feels bad. I'm hiring an engineer now. I've never seen so many fraudulent resumes phone"  
[X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1980990082699194523)  2025-10-22T13:30Z 313.3K followers, 179.7K engagements


"@kamikaz1_k no - Atlassian isn't that old school"  
[X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/2018850140589814258)  2026-02-04T00:52Z 313.3K followers, [----] engagements


"How is it possible in this day and age that a hotel can be a 5-star one when it offers an internet connection of 2-5Mbps with no option to even buy faster (clearly throttled.) The hotel star rating is so terribly out of date for this modern age when slow internet is a killer"  
[X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/2019117274372927674)  2026-02-04T18:34Z 313.2K followers, 13.5K engagements


"This is something that we should probably talk more about. It's like a "silent epidemic" spreading with people getting into hardcore AI agent usage (also: my first time on @tbpn) Pragmatic Engineer's @GergelyOrosz is on a "secret email list" of agentic AI coders and they're starting to report trouble sleeping because agent swarms are "like a vampire." "A lot of people who are in 'multiple agents mode' they're napping during the day. It just really is https://t.co/slsPgCfkKw Pragmatic Engineer's @GergelyOrosz is on a "secret email list" of agentic AI coders and they're starting to report"  
[X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/2019171706833973440)  2026-02-04T22:10Z 313.3K followers, 81.3K engagements


"Met a musician+hobbyst dev who building a platform to connect (music) engineers w musicians. Building it with Cursor agents Opus [---] deployed it on Railway. Me: Why did you choose Railway Them: Asked Claude: its what it recommended. Welcome to the future of marketing"  
[X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/2020023505727717447)  2026-02-07T06:35Z 313.1K followers, 19.7K engagements


"Aka time travel: a product so good years ago that LLMs recommend it today almost unbeatable on agents that do not sell advertising like OpenAI will sell"  
[X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/2020024105668362741)  2026-02-07T06:37Z 313.1K followers, [----] engagements


"@rockatanescu Its exactly why it doesnt make sense doing so Salesforce just opting to pass on an explosion of PaaS of apps is so strange to see"  
[X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/2020034874187686212)  2026-02-07T07:20Z 313.3K followers, [----] engagements


"Got to love LinkedIn influencers offering free advice that is almost certainly wrong Employees at a company like Figma going public are not allowed to sell during the lockup period (usually [--] months) Most lockups explicitly ban hedging or similar transactions including puts"  
[X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/2020164893484413073)  2026-02-07T15:56Z 313.3K followers, 16.1K engagements


"Also a good point with eg sandboxing https://x.com/Doom_S_Dey/status/2020769565077282997s=20 @GergelyOrosz Meta has entire teams dedicated to making this possible. Small startups and most orgs dont have that infrastructure. Better approach: sandbox environment where new hires can break things safely learn the system then ship what matters. https://x.com/Doom_S_Dey/status/2020769565077282997s=20 @GergelyOrosz Meta has entire teams dedicated to making this possible. Small startups and most orgs dont have that infrastructure. Better approach: sandbox environment where new hires can break things"  
[X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/2020770465640509797)  2026-02-09T08:03Z 313.3K followers, [----] engagements


"Im seeing a lot of comments about AI this or AI that. At the same time pre-AI I never knew any other company that had a physical library (save for teams having a few shared books in the office.) I assume these things have high costs and usage + ROI still important AI or not Microsoft Shuts Down Library Replaces It With AI Microsoft has closed its physical employee libraries at campuses including Redmond Hyderabad Beijing and Dublin. It also ended many digital subscriptions to books journals research reports and major news outlets. The https://t.co/QYIM3TFDHr Microsoft Shuts Down Library"  
[X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/2020918584742924689)  2026-02-09T17:51Z 313.3K followers, 13.8K engagements


"RT @ashtom: Was a great day and a few beans and f-bombs were in fact spilled. 😉 Now back to building @EntireHQ"  
[X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/2021870371172233656)  2026-02-12T08:53Z 313.2K followers, [--] engagements


"RT @siddhantis: Spent the day at the Pragmatic Summit in SF hosted by @GergelyOrosz . We're seeing a fundamental change in what it means to"  
[X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/2021871575054836062)  2026-02-12T08:58Z 313.1K followers, [--] engagements


"@wrowston We were in Deer Valley and stopped at SLC just enough time to record this one Which then had terrible sound but some great video lol"  
[X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/2021872348052566163)  2026-02-12T09:01Z 313.3K followers, [----] engagements


"Asked a few companies how they hire FDEs (forward deployed engineers). Head this article from @alexandr_wang referenced a few times as what worked well:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1953778408816566529)  2025-08-08T11:20Z 313.3K followers, 887.6K engagements


"On [--] Dec [----] AWS S3 announced that all writes to S3 are now strongly consistent (not eventually consistent like before) *at no price change or latency changes* to any customers. Pulling this off was probably one of the biggest invisible engineering achievements of the decade"  
[X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/2008645862898233834)  2026-01-06T21:04Z 313.3K followers, 549.4K engagements


""I don't like pull requests (PRs) any more. A large chunk code change doesn't tell me much about the intent or why it was done. I now prefer prompt requests. Just share the prompt you ran / want to run. If I think it's good I'll run it myself and merge it." - @steipete wow"  
[X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/2010683228961509839)  2026-01-12T12:00Z 313.3K followers, 400.1K engagements


"No project has gotten more traction in such a short time than @openclaw by @steipete But how is he building it Watch or listen: YouTube: Spotify: Apple: Brought to you by: @statsig The unified platform for flags analytics experiments and more. Join us at The Pragmatic SummitIm hosting with Statsig on [--] February: @SonarSource The makers of SonarQube the industry standard for automated code review. Join me onlineat the Sonar Summit on 3rd March: @WorkOS Everything you need to make your app enterprise ready.If you're in SF on [--] February stop by at the WorkOS AI Night with The Pragmatic Engineer"  
[X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/2016585250038521902)  2026-01-28T18:52Z 313.3K followers, 175.6K engagements


"If you do not yet have a "companion coding/research agent" running locally as a dev this guide is absolute gold from @mitchellh (creator of Terraform). It's practical step by step & how he changed how he works (without getting overloaded or anxious.) https://mitchellh.com/writing/my-ai-adoption-journey https://mitchellh.com/writing/my-ai-adoption-journey"  
[X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/2019517812558164330)  2026-02-05T21:05Z 313.3K followers, 202.1K engagements


"Not to mention that insider trading policy almost always probits employees from hedging (given they can be aware of insider information) and would need to often get permission from the legal/compliance team. To the point of from a practical POV not being worth the hassle for your own company's stock https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020165534533447851 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020165534533447851"  
[X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/2020165534533447851)  2026-02-07T15:59Z 313.3K followers, [----] engagements


"Can we end the argument of "how long should it take a new joiner to contribute their first change to the codebase" now If it's longer than one day: you have fixing to do. There's not much excuse for this anymore. (Also: Meta had this down to 1-2 days back in 2021)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/2020762483288617418)  2026-02-09T07:31Z 313.3K followers, 42.4K engagements


"I do see a trend of fewer physical nonfiction books sold (publishers struggling.) Assuming utilisation of physical libraries drop at a place like Microsoft: the choice is to have a facility increasingly unused by most or to use the money + space for something else"  
[X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/2020919017964482966)  2026-02-09T17:53Z 313.3K followers, [----] engagements


"This is an example where I do NOT know how to use a CLI tool and never knew how to do it (ffmpeg from the command line.) I just know the output I would like: prompt it; give it compute (my local machine) and then. it figures it out (after several iterations.) It's a good window in how eg non-devs will prompt it to create software"  
[X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/2021320059910840461)  2026-02-10T20:27Z 313.3K followers, [----] engagements


"One thing Im hearing from a few startups and a few massive companies: Follow-the-sun team formation is back. Having eng teams split across eg US EU and Asia/Australia suddenly makes sense with AI agents. When one dev logs off work continues in the other timezone Were a globally distributed remote first company. We take feedback around the clock from devs all over the world. India lets build the next developer platform right in the open starting with Checkpoints Were a globally distributed remote first company. We take feedback around the clock from devs all over the world. India lets build"  
[X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/2021467556998262920)  2026-02-11T06:13Z 313.3K followers, 48.3K engagements


"@Steve_Yegge This is embarrassing: but the audio is SO bad that I could not release it. The studio I rented turns out knows nothing about audio and did 1) [--] sound treatment 2) producer knew nothing about sound If you still want to YT link DM me and I'll share https://x.com/nephel_/status/2021470658249752692s=20 @GergelyOrosz @Steve_Yegge no YouTube 😢 https://x.com/nephel_/status/2021470658249752692s=20 @GergelyOrosz @Steve_Yegge no YouTube 😢"  
[X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/2021472078663446675)  2026-02-11T06:31Z 313.3K followers, [----] engagements


"From a CTO at a startup: "We interview devs by giving them a task to build an app on the spot from scratch (2x BE endpoints some frontend.) They can use AI ofc - and we dig into why they did this or that. What is surprising: 14/15 devs from Meta failed this screening.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1989466197092700657)  2025-11-14T22:51Z 313.3K followers, 2.1M engagements


"We should stop calling it vibe coding when its software engineers writing production software paying close attention thinking a lot validating before committing closing the loop and yes they prompt an agent/work with it. Very different from let it rip w [--] validation Today was proof that fully polished new products can be built entirely with vibe coding tools like Claude Code. Many people espp in BigTech who still dont believe it: you havent tried the latest models you dont have the right setup codebase is still too large your https://t.co/ASixdrrfxD Today was proof that fully polished new"  
[X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/2011001698370699374)  2026-01-13T09:05Z 313.3K followers, 275.7K engagements


"How is the world's largest storage system AWS S3 built I found the best person to talk about this: Mai-Lan Tomsen Bukovec who has been heading up S3 for [--] years () S3's scale is something else (tens of millions of hard drives eleven 9s of durability () and heavy usage of formal methods microservices dedicated to durability amongst others.) Watch or listen: YouTube: Spotify: Apple: Brought to you by: @statsig  The unified platform for flags analytics experiments and more. @SonarSource The makers of SonarQube the industry standard for automated code review. Check out their latest State of Code"  
[X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/2014078569136202045)  2026-01-21T20:52Z 313.3K followers, 133.1K engagements


"The "death of SaaS" could well be the "death of SaaS that is not API-first" A story on how 30-person startup @craftdocs is moving off Zendesk after they built much better internal AI workflows (with a tool they open sourced Craft Agents) Full: https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/ai-first-makeover-craft https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/ai-first-makeover-craft"  
[X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/2016212925061452087)  2026-01-27T18:13Z 313.3K followers, 127.8K engagements


"Interesting thought experiment: Let's run with the assumption that AI makes creating software ridiculously fast + cheap and quality doesn't suffer (I know I know but let's assume) What would this mean for software businesses Would eg they all expand scope w new products"  
[X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/2017925273417826470)  2026-02-01T11:37Z 313.3K followers, 205.2K engagements


""Earlier all devs used GitHub Copilot. [--] months ago we rolled out Cursor to all devs. [---] weeks ago we rolled out Claude Code to everyone and cancelled our Copilot subscription" - CTO at a company with [---] engineers (I hear this exact "transition" story a LOT)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/2018432706892476842)  2026-02-02T21:13Z 313.3K followers, 434.2K engagements


"What if we're actually in the middle of the third golden age of software engineering This is what @Grady_Booch sees happening. If you are anxious about the state of the industry you want to watch/listen to Grady's longer-term perspective and stories. Watch the full episode here: 00:00 Intro 01:58 The first golden age of software engineering 18:59 The software crisis 33:01 The second golden age of software engineering 42:21 Y2K and the Dotcom crash 45:47 Early AI 47:34 The third golden age of software engineering 51:48 Why software engineers will very much be needed 58:46 Grady responds to"  
[X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/2019123213364764837)  2026-02-04T18:57Z 313.3K followers, 86.6K engagements


"I have a Macbook so it was not a cheap purchase to get similar resolution: got a 4K OLED [--] inch monitor + stand + the laptop stand from Term Setups (I have no affiliation not an ad) Monitor as good as my Macbook Heres how it looks: Got it from here: http://ternsetups.com http://ternsetups.com"  
[X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/2019811640670392428)  2026-02-06T16:33Z 313.3K followers, 16K engagements


"Translation of this nonsense corporate talk: We will be killing Heroku Not today and not tomorrow But dont say we didnt warn you PS: Im just a marketing guy here and they told me to write something that legal would approve so here you go: Heroku is transitioning to a sustaining engineering model focused on stability security reliability and support. Heroku remains an actively supported production-ready platform with an emphasis on maintaining quality and operational excellence rather than introducing new Heroku is transitioning to a sustaining engineering model focused on stability security"  
[X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/2020028114542436531)  2026-02-07T06:53Z 313.3K followers, 66.3K engagements


"Outside of the bubble of people who are forward-looking around the capabilities of new technology (eg LLMs) I see a LOT of crab mentality. Where the few people using tech to work better/more innovative/faster are being told by their peers to stop it/it won't work etc. Be aware"  
[X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/2020638379122331938)  2026-02-08T23:18Z 313.3K followers, 11.2K engagements


"New "wow" moment with LLM tools: I'm using a agentic desktop apps to edit videos and add subtitles to them (Codex desktop and Claude Cowork.) It's wild: they figure out how to use CLI tools like ffmpeg and just. do the work. Not perfect but damn impressive"  
[X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/2021319263202705844)  2026-02-10T20:24Z 313.3K followers, 15.9K engagements


"Uber becoming a pretty efficient ads business was neither on my bingo card but it also makes a lot of sense. I keep seeing AI startup ads. A for targeting"  
[X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/2021407567310880974)  2026-02-11T02:14Z 313.3K followers, [----] engagements


"Big day: The Pragmatic Summit First-ever in-person @Pragmatic_Eng event. [--] standout speakers. [---] incredible attendees. Starts in an hour"  
[X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/2021635621538959512)  2026-02-11T17:21Z 313.3K followers, 10.1K engagements


"Pragmatic Summit going great so far Catching our breath before the next session with Simon and Chip"  
[X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/2021692745547440578)  2026-02-11T21:08Z 313.3K followers, [----] engagements


"What. A. Day. The first-ever Pragmatic Summit was next-level. Thank you to the [---] exceptional attendees [--] awesome roundtable hosts the [--] out-of-this-world speakers and the incredible @statsig organizing team: Four years of @Pragmatic_Eng built up to this special day:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/2021995608882684239)  2026-02-12T17:11Z 313.3K followers, 18.2K engagements


"Also there's this question: when you are competitor to a service that goes down bad should you use this to advertise yourself (and your higher reliability) I would say do this if you can prove you are better are 99.999% confident you are and can be. https://x.com/samlambert/status/2022132219733848523s=20 @pederzh @supabase This will happen again. We can help with credits and services. https://x.com/samlambert/status/2022132219733848523s=20 @pederzh @supabase This will happen again. We can help with credits and services"  
[X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/2022424622613024902)  2026-02-13T21:36Z 313.3K followers, 14K engagements


"What used to be the silent agreement across infra vendors (pre-2023:) don't jump on your competitor being down (because it can happen to you.) I sense with AI making it easier to change vendors this silent rule is being dropped more often fwiw https://x.com/PRCrecluse674/status/2022426164002795750s=20 @GergelyOrosz tbh it's a double-edged sword. if you brag about reliability and then go down next week the internet never forgets and the backlash is 10x worse. better to just ship a migration tool or offer a 'switch discount' quietly without being too 'victory lap' about it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/2022426563724349566)  2026-02-13T21:44Z 313.3K followers, 10K engagements


"Here is @IsForAt who has TONS of hands-on experience just with this. Listen to him (and follow him) @GergelyOrosz As someone who has been on both sides of this - as long as you're super confident and it's right for customers then do it. but at Amazon we didn't do it when MS went down a few times. At Google we didn't do it when MS went down a few times more. But eventually we just put it in @GergelyOrosz As someone who has been on both sides of this - as long as you're super confident and it's right for customers then do it. but at Amazon we didn't do it when MS went down a few times. At"  
[X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/2022470518809739758)  2026-02-14T00:38Z 313.3K followers, [----] engagements


"Iconic moment at The Pragmatic Summit: the last CEO of GitHub @ashtom grilling the CTO of Atlassian (Rajeev Rajan) for not being agile enough Rajeev responding with his own grilling And the room simply exploding Video coming soon"  
[X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/2022567052331065756)  2026-02-14T07:02Z 313.3K followers, [----] engagements

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