This week
- How to use piracy to your advantage....
About a month ago
- A Blue Ocean Turns Red in <18 Months If we look at the ecosystem of AI-powered products, there’s a clear pattern of how they emerge and roll out to the world: Initial POC: Someone throws together a software demo – not a robust product ready for public consumption – proving a...
- My thesis for the future of software dev agents. This is a hastily written blogpost done on not a lot of sleep, so pardon poor pacing and structure and typos and mistakes but just getting it out there....
about 1 month ago
- In my startup days, we often had these dead marches where we had to implement a massive new feature in time before some kind of trade show happened. We worked long hours and even weekends to make it happen so the boss and a project manager could go to Vegas for the trade show....
- Srijan Singh pinged me on LinkedIn earlier today with a question: I’m in my early career as a backend dev at IBM, and something I often wonder about is choosing the right path: whether to stick with a big company and learn deeply, or test myself in a startup environment (remote...
about 2 months ago
- “Open source maintenance fee” trialed by Wix Toolset, while the creator of uv offers paid, enterprise-only features for larger companies....
- One of the most consistent observations I’ve had in my time in startups, scale-ups, and public companies is that smart people with context on a tricky situation almost always know exactly what they need to do. Teams obsess about company strategy, about data, and about frameworks...
- One user consumed tens of thousands in model usage on a $200 plan. That’s from Anthropic’s own admission when they killed Claude Code’s unlimited tier. Not $200 worth of usage. Tens of thousands of dollars on a $200/month plan. TechCrunch said Cursor hit $500 million ARR....
- Pulling 80+ hour work weeks – including weekends – is becoming the norm across AI startups, and is unlikely to stop while AI is so hot....
- You know that feeling when you’re looking at your competitor’s pricing page and the math doesn’t add up? $9/month. Unlimited usage. Same features as your $900 enterprise plan. Your first thought: They’re burning VC money. Classic Silicon Valley playbook – grow at all costs,...
2 months ago
- Blog About Moonbound Shop This is a post from Robin Sloan’s lab blog & notebook. You can visit the blog’s homepage, or learn more about me. July 30, 2025 My neighbors at Oxide Computer just raised a bunch of money. Here is a company that did the coolest thing, which is also,...
3 months ago
- Finally, relief: tax regulation hurting the US tech industry is striked off for good - for the most part, that is....
- Fastly, you killed glitch.com and ruined your karma for 10,000 years. You have “betrayed yourself for nothing.” Glitch was an idealistic place where people gathered and made sites, were inspired by other people’s sites and remixed them, and generally enjoyed themselves. Of...
5 months ago
- One of your most important activities as an executive, especially at a startup, is to set policies: Sets of guardrails or rules for how company systems work, such as vacation policies, expense policies, WFH policies, or rules for how to get promoted. Companies are just groups of...
- if you’re trying to finish a project and need moral & emotional support over text and as many calls as you need, i will cheerlead the fuck out of your project for a 0.1% equity stake. my cheerleading is very honest and extreme. i will highlight everything astonishing about you....
6 months ago
- Every startup ponders over-scaling risks. Vibe code a dumb app and be OK with a fail whale? Or build 50 microservices auto scaled in Kubernetes with a full devops team load balancing every layer? You’re probably better off with the former as long as you can tolerate it. Same...
- If you spend a lot of time in tech, you’ll inevitably hear people extolling the virtues of being a First Principles Thinker – that is, someone who analyzes situations in terms of foundational axioms and then uses their impeccable reasoning to determine a bold and original course...
7 months ago
- Most big organizations I’ve worked with are more akin to an ecosystem of multiple smaller companies. These smaller companies all share the same umbrella of the bigger total but internally compete for resources and priorities. Think of it as a federation of specialised companies...
8 months ago
- There are 35% fewer software developer job listings on Indeed today, than five years ago. Compared to other industries, job listings for software engineers grew much more in 2021-2022, but have declined much faster since. A look into possible reasons for this, and what could...
- Maybe the worst state for a company to get in is what I call Mutually Assured Mediocrity. This is where people are so holistically mid that they agree not to criticize each other for fear of their own mediocrity being found out. And what’s worse is that leaders on top of MAM...
9 months ago
- I’m excited to share that I — along with my brother Ian — are going fully independent and will be focusing on courses, workshops/training, and other fun adventures. A bittersweet farewell to Big Medium Josh Clark and I had been closely collaborating since 2013, and at the...
10 months ago
- Well SaaStronauts that’s another year in the books, which means it’s time for the Stay SaaSy Year In Review. The Numbers Our audience grew by about 30% this year. What is more valuable to us is the number of really impressive companies and people represented. It’s a joy and an...
- Recently I shared my startup journey on LinkedIn. In...
11 months ago
- The last 12 months, The Pragmatic Engineer covered a variety of deepdives, revealing previously unshared details like: We also did deepdives with hands-on experts on security engineering, reliability engineering and how to thrive as a founding engineer, just to name a few. This...
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