The Pragmatic Engineer
Gergely Orosz
2 episodes
Software engineering at Google & CS education with Titus Winters
29 Oct · 1 h 40 min
- Titus Winters says Google's Abseil refactoring of roughly 250m lines of C++ was probably the largest refactoring in human history, done with deterministic compiler-based tools.
- Winters argues AI is best used to write deterministic rewrite recipes and lint rules rather than relying on constant inference, echoing Kelsey Hightower's zero token architecture idea.
Twisting the rules of building software: Bending Spoons (the team behind Evernote)
23 Oct 2024 · 1 h 19 min
- Bending Spoons funds its acquisitions with its own money rather than outside investor capital, and Luca Ferrari says it will make unpopular layoffs when it believes they secure the business for the next five or ten years.
- Bending Spoons reports roughly $700m in revenue, profitability every year since founding, and about 1% unwanted churn annually, against an industry average Gergely Orosz puts at seven to 10 percent.