About this episode

In this AMA episode, Gergely Orosz answers subscriber questions on various topics related to software engineering and AI.

Brought to You By: • Antithesis – verify your system’s correctness without human review or traditional integration tests – and avoid bugs or outages. — In this special “ask me anything” episode of Pragmatic Engineer podcast, I am in the hot seat facing questions sent in by subscribers that are read out by guest Volodymyr Giginiak, CTO and cofounder of Wordsmith AI , a legal tech startup (note: I’m an investor ) . I tackle your questions on the software industry, AI, hiring, engineering organizations, career growth, the business model of the Pragmatic Engineer, and more. We also discuss where software engineering is headed, and I offer advice on some specific situations. Thanks to everyone who sent questions! — Timestamps 00:00 Intro 01:56 From Uber to writing 09:22 AI-native SDLC 14:00 AI and hiring 19:06 Engineers currently thriving 22:18 Junior roles 24:44 Meta’s war mode 27:54 AI at Big Tech vs. startups 36:46 Tech debt 41:36 Types of engineering managers 44:40 Measuring AI productivity 48:30 The value of CS degrees 50:53 AI at Pragmatic Engineer 56:09 Future-proofing your career 1:01:36 The EU job market 1:03:55 Making money as a creator 1:08:20 What’s next for The Pragmatic…

People in this episode

Host: Gergely Orosz

Guest: Volodymyr Giginiak

Topics covered

• software industry
• AI
• hiring
• engineering organizations
• career growth
• business model
• future of software engineering

Keywords

• software engineering
• AI hiring
• career advice
• engineering management
• tech trends
• job market
• productivity

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Antithesis

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Wordsmith AI, Meta

Places: EU

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