Podcast profile
The Pragmatic Engineer Podcast
By Gergely Orosz
Software engineering at Big Tech and startups, from the inside. Deepdives with experienced engineers and tech professionals who share their hard-earned lessons, interesting stories and advice they have on building software.
Latest episode
Design Engineering with Maggie Appleton
1 hr 27 min
- Cadence
- Weekly
- Typical length
- 1 hr 31 min
- Latest release
- Sep 23
- Language
- EN
- Activity
- Current — released within 30 days
Podcast Classification
Topics
Engineering Leadership
Managing engineering organizations, teams, delivery, architecture, and technical leadership.
Software Architecture
Application architecture, modularity, APIs, maintainability, and technical design decisions.
Technology Careers
Hiring, career development, skills, workplace practice, and professional progression in technology.
Formats
Interview
Host-led conversation where a guest supplies most of the subject matter.
Case-Study Analysis
Detailed examination of a company, product, system, incident, or technical decision.
Audience level
Advanced
Regularly assumes specialist knowledge and discusses implementation, architecture, protocols, code, or research in depth.
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Design Engineering with Maggie Appleton
Today’s episode is more visual than usual because Maggie brought her notebook along, so there are peeks inside its pages of prototypes and more: We got into designers’ work and how their design processes are adapting to and changing with AI.
AI Skills with Matt Pocock
In this episode, Matt and I discuss his unconventional path from working as a voice teacher to becoming a developer and going all-in on technical education.
Building Codex with Tibo Sottiaux
In this episode of the Pragmatic Engineer Podcast, Tibo and I discuss how Codex was built and continues to be iterated upon. We explore why the Codex CLI is written in Rust and was released as open source, how the harness and models have evolved, and why Codex supports models from multiple providers.
Why performant code matters (but gets widely ignored), with Casey Muratori
In this episode, we discuss why software performance matters, why it’s overlooked, and how developers can get better at writing performant code.
From Chrome DevTools to AI Engineering, with Addy Osmani
In this episode, I sit down with Addy and we talk about his path from building a web browser aged just 16 to becoming a director at Google. We discuss what he learned from building tools for millions of developers, Google’s engineering culture, and why he continued doing hands-on coding work as a manager.
Stop being skeptical about AI for development with Charity Majors
We explore how AI is changing the economics of code generation, why reliability and verification are increasingly the bottlenecks, and why the rise of non-deterministic systems requires more engineering discipline.
Formal methods with Hillel Wayne
Today, I’m talking with one of the best people to tackle the prediction. Hillel Wayne is a formal methods consultant, educator, and author, who’s deeply interested in software history.
Context engineering with Dex Horthy
In this episode of The Pragmatic Engineer podcast, I sit down with the CEO and cofounder of HumanLayer, Dex Horthy, who coined the term “context engineering”.
How Kent Beck shapes the software engineering industry
In this episode of the Pragmatic Engineer podcast, Kent and I dig into his journey from discovering Smalltalk in the early days of personal computing, to helping define modern software engineering practices.