The Pragmatic Engineer leaders on AI, quotes with sources
7 quotes from Gergely Orosz
- Engineering specializations are disappearing, judgment and agency are more important, and it only takes one or two engineers for previously “impossible” rewrites and migrations to succeed.
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- Since the end of 2025, it has seemed that the era of devs writing code by hand is over at startups and in Big Tech. AI agents work faster and generate more pull requests (PRs) than devs ever did, and the size of those pull requests is also increasing.
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- Both startups are experimenting with how far they can push AI agents to automatically fix bugs and remove tech debt. It’s working better than anyone might’ve expected in the recent past, but not producing code that can be merged without review.
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