A newsletter by an engineering leader mixing practical lessons from running production AI systems with long-form essays on tech industry hype cycles and geopolitics. Readers get opinionated, data-backed commentary built on firsthand experience, such as the costs of embedding model lock-in.
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Gergely Orosz covers Big Tech and startups through the lens of senior engineers and engineering leaders, with reported detail on company practices and incidents. The sampled issues cover Anthropic's custom source control, internal vibe-coding tools at Ramp and Stripe, and the Firebase outage.
A newsletter covering Big Tech and startups from the inside, with original reporting, data gathered from engineering leaders, industry news roundups and deep-dive interviews. Readers get insight into how software companies work, including AI tooling spend, developer infrastructure and industry trends.
Michael Lopp (Rands) writes personal, reflective essays on leadership, writing, and a career in tech. Issues combine anecdotes from his time at companies like Pinterest and Riot Games with lessons on creating, speaking, and managing people.
Charity Majors, Honeycomb co-founder, writes first-person essays on engineering leadership, team culture, and how AI is changing norms and values at work. Recent issues include a dialogue with psychologist Dr Cat Hicks and a look at the research behind Honeycomb's AI norms docs.
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