Anthropic acquired and is shutting down Stainless, a startup also used by OpenAI and Meta to generate their SDKs. So, will OpenAI and Meta rewrite their SDK using AI agents? Unlikely.
We covered why, and also Stainless alternatives in our deepdive:
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GitHub’s reliability is less than one nine (below 90%), and getting worse. GitHub’s leadership blames a ~3.5x increase in service load over the last two years for the degradation – or it might be self-inflicted. We look closer in this week’s bonus issue: blog.pragmaticengineer.com/the-pulse-ai...
Ever wondered why it's much easier to get a job January to June than July to December? Fresh data from our State of the software engineering job market in 2026 shows why: because historically 90%+ of hiring happens the first part of the year.
More: newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/state-of-t...
This week's deepdive hit a nerve.
It's true: there are more and more signs that AI agents help increase *output* but they result in worse *quality.* Unless something changes. And something needs to change, clearly!
The deepdive: newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/are-ai-age...
For those who missed: a month ago, Amazon (finally!) allowed using Claude Code and Codex for engineers. This was after many months, where engineers at the company were only allowed to use Kiro, Amazon's answer to AI coding harnesses.
From 7 May 2026: newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/the-pulse-...
Google Cloud blocked cloud infra provider Railway's account, taking it offline. It's not the first time GCP did something unacceptable: in 2024, they deleted the infra of a $124B Australian fund. Not fully trusting GCP saved the fund's data.
Full: blog.pragmaticengineer.com/google-cloud...
Token spend is out of control inside many (most?) tech companies. We gathered first-hand data from 15 companies on what is happening, and what they are doing about it. The two strategies are either "let it rip" or "curb spending, NOW"
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Anthropic has been upsetting devs: “dumbing down” Claude Code, removing access from some paid accounts and increasing prices. With extra compute from SpaceX, they've increased usage limits. Did Anthropic turn hostile on devs to conceal capacity issues? blog.pragmaticengineer.com/the-pulse-di...
Why is Meta destroying its engineering organization?
Leadership at the social media giant has been on an AI-fueled rampage through its engineering org. We look into what's happened the last two months, all of it self-inflicted: newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/why-is-met...
