Gergely Orosz quotes on AI, with sources

Author, The Pragmatic Engineer · 7 quotes · latest Sep 15, 2026

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Sep 15, 2026	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.Sep 15, 2026· Post	PostInside OpenAI’s agentic software factory	Source
Sep 15, 2026	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.Sep 15, 2026· Post	PostInside OpenAI’s agentic software factory	Source
Sep 15, 2026	Within a year, Codex has gone from a “nice-to-have” tool to being the backbone of pretty much everything at the company.Sep 15, 2026· Post	PostInside OpenAI’s agentic software factory	Source
Sep 8, 2026	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.Sep 8, 2026· Post	PostWhat is happening with code reviews?	Source
Sep 8, 2026	There’s more talk about dropping human code reviews than there is evidence of this actually happening, so far.Sep 8, 2026· Post	PostWhat is happening with code reviews?	Source
Sep 3, 2026	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.Sep 3, 2026· Post	PostThe Pulse: tech companies move to open AI models	Source
Sep 3, 2026	Cost-saving efforts reveal that moving simpler workloads to open AI models is the easiest way to save ~50% on AI bills.Sep 3, 2026· Post	PostThe Pulse: tech companies move to open AI models	Source

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