Gergely Orosz's Recent LinkedIn Posts

Interesting, recent trend I’m observing: CTO/ Head of Eng / VPE folks at startups and mid-sized companies are... leaving / burning out. Hiring for these roles is HARD, but even after filling the role, they will often leave a few months later and take a career break. And they have very good reasons! A few I gather…

Exactly one year ago (10 mar 2025), Dario Amodei: "In 12 months, we may be in a world where AI is writing essentially all of the code." The full quote, as he said it at The Council of Foreign Relations "I think we will be there in 3-6 months, where AI is writing 90% of the code. And then, in 12 months, we may be i…

Five years ago, almost exactly to the day, I launched The Pragmatic Engineer. While I acted all confident, realistically, it would surely be a short-lived project. Right? Back then, it was not clear that there'd be demand for a publication written by a software engineer, for software engineers. To understand the od…

It might be a bit of a weird complaint to have but with AI agents, that “flow state” during coding is gone (because the coding itself is gone.) Every time I talk with a dev about work now vs before, it seems to come up, like today with a former colleague. Are we over-glorifying it (I mean it wasn’t all roses, it w…

Interesting, recent trend I’m observing: CTO/ Head of Eng / VPE folks at startups and mid-sized companies are... leaving / burning out. Hiring for these roles is HARD, but even after filling the role, they will often leave a few months later and take a career break. And they have very good reasons! A few I gather…

Exactly one year ago (10 mar 2025), Dario Amodei: "In 12 months, we may be in a world where AI is writing essentially all of the code." The full quote, as he said it at The Council of Foreign Relations "I think we will be there in 3-6 months, where AI is writing 90% of the code. And then, in 12 months, we may be i…