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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.Gergely OroszSep 15, 2026· Post
It’s rare to work with an unlimited token budget, but at OpenAI, that’s what all engineers, researchers, finance colleagues, and marketing folks do.Gergely OroszSep 15, 2026· Post
Within a year, Codex has gone from a “nice-to-have” tool to being the backbone of pretty much everything at the company.Gergely OroszSep 15, 2026· Post
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.Gergely OroszSep 8, 2026· Post
There’s more talk about dropping human code reviews than there is evidence of this actually happening, so far.Gergely OroszSep 8, 2026· Post
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.Gergely OroszSep 3, 2026· Post
Cost-saving efforts reveal that moving simpler workloads to open AI models is the easiest way to save ~50% on AI bills.Gergely OroszSep 3, 2026· Post
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