Published on: 2025-06-05 04:05:00
Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More When Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff recently announced that the company would not hire any more engineers in 2025, citing a “30% productivity increase on engineering” due to AI, it sent ripples through the tech industry. Headlines quickly framed this as the beginning of the end for human engineers — AI was coming for their jobs. But those headlines miss the mark entirely.
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-13 20:29:00
A hot potato: Software engineers at Amazon are experiencing mounting pressure as artificial intelligence becomes central to their daily work, fundamentally altering how they write code, collaborate, and advance in their careers. Over the past year, managers have raised expectations and shortened deadlines, pushing engineers to adopt AI-powered tools like Microsoft's Copilot and Amazon's assistants to keep up with a relentless pace. Teams that once counted a dozen developers have been cut in hal
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A hot potato: Software engineers at Amazon are experiencing mounting pressure as artificial intelligence becomes central to their daily work, fundamentally altering how they write code, collaborate, and advance in their careers. Over the past year, managers have raised expectations and shortened deadlines, pushing engineers to adopt AI-powered tools like Microsoft's Copilot and Amazon's assistants to keep up with a relentless pace. Teams that once counted a dozen developers have been cut in hal
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-23 11:42:29
Over the last few months, I have had conversations with people from all over the tech world about various and sundry subjects related to our fields — Professors, Undergrads, Ph.D. students, CEOs and CTOs, Senior Software Engineers, Junior Engineers, Data Scientists, and everything in between. From all of these points of view, we have observed one particular issue: the role of the junior engineer is disappearing. Some that I have talked to think it is a natural byproduct of the advent of artifici
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-27 21:00:27
The United States is not a great place for old people, to put it lightly. Though the elderly population is at its highest number in history, seniors face a myriad of unprecedented crises in the form of AI-powered insurance claims denial, unwalkable communities, and eldercare abuse. That's not to mention the prospect of growing old in a society where your well-being is directly tied to your wage — as that same society devises ever-more powerful AI models that can scam you out of your 401K at an
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-15 09:00:00
is a senior editor and author of Notepad , who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Microsoft has brought me inside the Surface hardware lab from time to time over the years, showing me how its engineers test the hinges and fabrics that go into its products. They’re usually typical engineering demonstrations, but last month I was invited to Microsoft’s headquarters in Redmond, Washington, to see how the company built its two new smaller Surface Pro and Surface
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-17 21:00:00
The first hands-on experience I had with the $360,000, ultraluxury Cadillac Celestiq was as a backseat passenger. It was mid-April, and I was on the way to a dinner in West Hollywood. While GM insists most Celestiq buyers are drivers, the company wanted to create a vehicle that could be especially compelling for those who prefer to be chauffeured. Once known for its behemoth, bespoke luxury vehicles, Cadillac is working to get its mojo back with the all-electric Celestiq. A 655-horsepower fastb
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-20 12:29:02
# Why I ever wrote Clojure I wrote Clojure professionally for 5 years. At first I loved it, and by the end I hated it, and for the same reason: I was bored. I can't force myself to write generic enterprise code for soulless corporations. I just can't. I tried for so many years. But I can force myself to write generic enterprise code for soulless corporations if I can make it fun for myself. Enter Clojure. Or Go. Or Rust. Or Zig. Or literally anything new and exciting. (These were some of min
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-21 12:17:29
Chevrolet provided flights from Washington, DC, to Charlotte and accommodation so Ars could drive the Blazer EV SS. I also took the opportunity to interview Ken Morris. Ars does not accept paid editorial content. CONCORD, N.C.—We weren't allowed cameras past the lobby of General Motors' shiny new Charlotte Technical Center. It's the automaker's new motorsport hub in the heart of NASCAR country, but the 130,000-square-foot (12,000 m2) facility is for much more than just stock cars. There are cut
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Chevrolet provided flights from Washington, DC, to Charlotte and accommodation so Ars could drive the Blazer EV SS. I also took the opportunity to interview Ken Morris. Ars does not accept paid editorial content. CONCORD, N.C.—We weren't allowed cameras past the lobby of General Motors' shiny new Charlotte Technical Center. It's the automaker's new motorsport hub in the heart of NASCAR country, but the 130,000-square-foot (12,000 m2) facility is for much more than just stock cars. There are cut
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-23 13:08:48
Since moving from academic research to industry in 2017, I’ve worked on two software projects. Each one started as a small, clean-slate skunkworks effort involving 2-3 people and gradually expanded to a large, conventional software engineering effort with dozens of engineers. The first of these (from 2017 to 2021) was Delos at Meta, a Chubby/ZooKeeper/etcd-like control plane storage system. The second was a new Kafka engine (from 2022 to 2024) that can run on any disaggregated storage layer (and
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-29 04:00:15
As engineers, we excel at precision and technical expertise, but many of us struggle to communicate ideas effectively to non-technical audiences. I know I did! This challenge can hinder career growth, project success, and leadership opportunities. By adopting audience-centric approaches, using visual storytelling, and leveraging company support, we can enhance our communication skills and advance our careers. Ultimately, giving effective presentations is not just an asset—it’s a necessity for pr
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-12 11:59:24
monsitj/Getty Images Artificial intelligence (AI) will soon be performing the essential tasks of software engineers -- or so the experts say. Sarah Friar, chief financial officer for OpenAI, proclaimed AI-as-software-engineer's emerging role at a recent Goldman Sachs conference. OpenAI's pending AI agent, called A-SWE (Agentic Software Engineer), "is not just augmenting the current software engineers in your workforce, but instead is literally an agentic software engineer that can build an app
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-12 09:28:06
The skill of the future is not 'AI', but 'Focus' If you frequent Hacker News regurlarly, you have likely noticed the buzz around engineers using AI (specifically Large Language Models, or LLMs) to tackle Computer Science problems. I want to be clear: I’m not against LLMs. LLMs are incredibly powerful tools, and can be a huge boon to engineers. They can automate repetitive tasks, generate code snippets, help with brainstorming, assist in debugging, … and this can frees up engineers’ time and m
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-23 18:27:27
Some engineers think it’s a virtue to remain non-committal in technical discussions. Should our team build a new feature in an event-driven or synchronous way? Well, it depends: there are many strong technical reasons on each side, so it’s better to keep an open mind and not come down on either side. This strategy is fine when you’re a junior engineer, but at some point you’ll be the person in the room with the most context (or technical skill, or institutional power). At that point, you need to
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-25 20:27:08
“People are package deals; you take the good with the confused. In most cases, strengths and weaknesses are two sides of the same coin.” — Steve Jobs I’ve noticed something interesting about almost every engineer I’ve managed: their biggest strengths and their most frustrating weaknesses are often the exact same trait showing up in different contexts. I learned this lesson personally when I was still a junior engineer. My ability to code quickly made me very productive — I’d often ship feature
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-27 13:57:00
In brief: Microsoft is considering making more job cuts this year, adding to the performance-based layoffs and other terminations it has implemented in 2025 so far. The latest round could come as soon as May and will reportedly target managers and non-coding staff. Some Microsoft organizations are looking to increase their span of control, defined as the number of direct reports or subordinates a manager or supervisor oversees. It also wants to increase the number of coders compared to non-code
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-27 13:20:18
Today a revealing new look into Apple’s recent Siri struggles was published at The Information. That report contains myriad details on internal drama and conflicts, but it also ends with a big piece of news: under Craig Federighi’s leadership, for the first time Apple engineers can now use third-party LLMs to build Siri features. Federighi’s engineers can now use third-party LLMs for Siri features Wayne Ma writes at The Information: Federighi has already shaken things up. In a departure from
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April 1, 2025 Apps lighter than a React button Tero Piirainen @tipiirai On this release we're showing what you can do by taking the modern web standards — HTML, CSS, and JS — to their absolute peak: The entire app is significantly lighter than a React button: See benchmark and details here › Going large-scale Here’s the same app, now with a Rust computation engine and Event Sourcing for instant search and other operations over 150,000 records — far past where JavaScript (and React) would cr
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-10-07 17:01:04
Lago is the open-source platform that helps engineers build better monetization systems. We enable software teams to build customizable and scalable usage metering, subscription management, billing, invoicing, and payment systems. Lago is the leader of our category on Github (7k+ stars), won « Product of the month » on ProductHunt, and is used by leading companies such as Mistral, Together, Groq, Laravel. Lago’s founding team previously built and scaled the home-grown monetization syst
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-10-08 15:00:21
👋 Join us at Prequel At Prequel, we enable B2B companies to make data accessible to their customers. Today, we help companies sync data directly to their customer's data warehouse, on an ongoing basis. To do so, we're solving a number of hard technical problems up and down the stack that come with syncing tens of billions of rows of data every day with perfect data integrity. We’ve hit strong PMF on our core product, and we’re cooking up something new while we scale it. We want you to come buil
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-10-08 14:35:47
A version of this post originally appeared in Refactoring, a Substack offering advice for software engineers. Most of us have encountered a few software engineers who seem practically magician-like, a class apart from the rest of us in their ability to reason about complex mental models, leap to nonobvious yet elegant solutions, or emit waves of high-quality code at unreal velocity. I have run into many of these incredible beings over the course of my career. I think their existence is what
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-10-10 11:35:47
A version of this post originally appeared in Refactoring, a Substack offering advice for software engineers. Most of us have encountered a few software engineers who seem practically magician-like, a class apart from the rest of us in their ability to reason about complex mental models, leap to nonobvious yet elegant solutions, or emit waves of high-quality code at unreal velocity. I have run into many of these incredible beings over the course of my career. I think their existence is what
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-10-10 16:35:47
A version of this post originally appeared in Refactoring, a Substack offering advice for software engineers. Most of us have encountered a few software engineers who seem practically magician-like, a class apart from the rest of us in their ability to reason about complex mental models, leap to nonobvious yet elegant solutions, or emit waves of high-quality code at unreal velocity. I have run into many of these incredible beings over the course of my career. I think their existence is what
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-10-17 21:51:59
Why build an industry around a scale that cuts across established verticals? This question occurred to me on a long flight to Paris, to attend the opening ceremony of the 2025 International Year of Quantum Science and Technology (IYQ), at UNESCO headquarters last month. I was part of an IEEE delegation led by 2025 IEEE President Kathleen Kramer. The event celebrated the 100th anniversary of several seminal quantum-science publications, including Wolfgang Pauli’s paper on his exclusion principle;
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-10-21 17:56:56
Inside a small control room, during the middle of the day on Thursday local time in Texas, about a dozen white-knuckled engineers at a space startup named Intuitive Machines started to get worried. Their spacecraft, a lander named Athena, was beginning its final descent down to the lunar surface. A little more than a year had passed since the company's first attempt to land on the Moon with a similarly built vehicle, Odysseus. Due to problems with that spacecraft's laser rangefinder, it skidded
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-11-01 18:30:15
Google co-founder Sergey Brin has told engineers that they should return to the office five days a week to help improve AI models that could replicate their work. The reclusive billionaire himself started returning to Mountain View following the launch of ChatGPT, which left Google on its back foot and raised concerns the company had fallen behind on a technology that had been developed within its own walls but capitalized upon by an outside competitor. Now, Brin is trying to instill more urgen
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-11-08 22:57:33
By Raza Habib Cofounder and CEO LinkedIn icon 𝕏 AI Is Blurring the Line Between PMs and Engineers Last year, I was speaking to an engineering leader at a publicly traded technology company when she said something that really surprised me. I asked how important prompts were to AI applications. “Very”, she said, “they’re the core of the application”. “How do you handle the process of prompt engineering?" I asked. “Are you using notebooks? Versioning with git? Do prompts live in code, how do yo
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-11-05 00:12:56
Engineers who work for Elon Musk’s SpaceX have been brought on as senior advisers to the acting administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), sources tell WIRED. On Sunday, Sean Duffy, secretary of the Department of Transportation, which oversees the FAA, announced in a post on X that SpaceX engineers would be visiting the Air Traffic Control System Command Center in Virginia to take what he positioned as a tour. “The safety of air travel is a nonpartisan matter,” Musk replied. “S
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Engineers who work for Elon Musk’s SpaceX have been brought on as senior advisers to the acting administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), sources tell WIRED. On Sunday, Sean Duffy, secretary of the Department of Transportation, which oversees the FAA, announced in a post on X that SpaceX engineers would be visiting the Air Traffic Control System Command Center in Virginia to take what he positioned as a tour. “The safety of air travel is a nonpartisan matter,” Musk replied. “S
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