Gergely Orosz analyzes real-world tech industry issues, from Cloudflare outages and dependency risks to return-to-office trends, sharing practical insights on software engineering, reliability, and modern tech culture.
22 articles from this blog
Analysis of rising code review load due to AI-generated code, and tools/strategies to manage it.
Analysis of Bun's rewrite from Zig to Rust for memory safety, using AI tools like Fable, and lessons for software engineering.
Analysis of Cursor's AI coding usage data, showing power users generate 10x more code and input tokens dominate costs.
Explores the trend of smart model routing to reduce AI costs by automatically selecting the best model for each task.
Article about a bogus DMCA takedown of a story on Pollen's collapse, highlighting abuse of Google's copyright system.
Analysis of Coinbase's 10-hour outage due to single-AZ dependency and lack of automated failover, highlighting reliability lessons for tech companies.
Analysis of a growing trend in engineering departments to cut back on AI spending due to unclear productivity gains.
Google launches Antigravity 2.0, a redesigned AI IDE that removes traditional IDE features for a conversational interface, causing confusion.
Analysis of rising demand for forward deployed engineers at Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic, with trends in AI-focused hiring.
Google Cloud accidentally deletes Australian fund UniSuper's infrastructure, causing two-week outage; data saved by third-party backup.
Analysis of Anthropic's capacity issues leading to Claude Code restrictions, corporate account bans, and a new data center deal with SpaceX/xAI.
TechPays, a European tech salary site, has been acquired by Levels.fyi to improve pay transparency.
Analysis of GitHub's recent reliability issues, including a data integrity bug and outages, questioning why other vendors aren't similarly affected.
Analysis of rising token costs in AI tool usage at tech companies, with insights from engineers on budget concerns and potential solutions.
Analysis of Meta's 'tokenmaxxing' trend where employees compete on AI token usage, leading to waste and outages.
Analysis of GitHub's reliability issues amid AI-native development, comparing outages and a startup's alternative approach.
Analysis of why the FDE (Founding Developer Experience) role is becoming less desirable among engineers despite high demand.
Cloudflare rewrites Next.js using AI, challenging Vercel's dominance and raising questions about open source defensibility.
Analysis of Cloudflare's repeated outages caused by global configuration changes, highlighting risks and impact on reliability.
A tech startup in Mongolia translated the author's software engineering book, leading to a visit and insights into the local tech scene.
