The Pragmatic Engineer

Recent Episodes

1. AI Skills with Matt Pocock

   Sep 17, 2026

   Matt Pocock, a developer-turned-educator and creator of the popular Total TypeScript course, discusses his unconventional path from voice coaching to software engineering and his pivot toward AI skills and strategic programming. He explores how AI has fundamentally shifted what engineers need to learn—from tactical knowledge (now commoditized) to strategic wisdom—and shares his framework for working with AI agents through skills like 'Grill Me' and 'Wayfinder' that encode software engineering best practices into agent workflows.

2. Building Codex with Tibo Sottiaux

   Sep 9, 2026

   Tibo Sottiaux, one of the original engineers who built Codex and now head of Core Products & Platform at OpenAI, discusses the origins and evolution of Codex, the AI coding harness. The conversation covers why Codex was built in Rust and released as open source, how it supports multiple model providers, and the engineering challenges of merging Codex into ChatGPT to serve millions of users at scale.

3. Why performant code matters (but gets widely ignored), with Casey Muratori

   Aug 26, 2026

   Casey Muratori, programmer, game developer, and founder of Molly Rocket, discusses why software performance is widely ignored despite overwhelming evidence of its importance to business outcomes. The conversation covers the historical role of performance in bringing games to Windows, why most developers and companies deprioritize optimization, and why the tide is finally turning with new performance-focused products gaining traction. Muratori emphasizes the importance of understanding theoretical hardware limits, reading assembly language, and proper optimization methodology.

4. From Chrome DevTools to AI Engineering, with Addy Osmani

   Aug 19, 2026

   Addy Osmani, a director of engineering at Google who spent 14 years building Chrome, DevTools, and Core Web Vitals, discusses his path from building a web browser as a teenager in rural Ireland to leading engineering at one of the world's largest tech companies. The episode covers his work on foundational web developer tools, his philosophy of understanding how things work at deeper layers, and his recent transition as he explores the intersection of AI and software engineering, including concepts like cognitive surrender and loop engineering.

5. Stop being skeptical about AI for development with Charity Majors

   Aug 12, 2026

   Charity Majors, CTO and cofounder of Honeycomb, discusses her evolved perspective on AI in software engineering—shifting from skepticism in 2025 to recognizing it as a foundational industry shift in 2026. The episode explores how AI is changing code generation economics, why reliability and verification are becoming the true bottlenecks, and what it means for teams to ship code they haven't read. Majors argues that non-deterministic AI systems require more engineering discipline, not less, and draws parallels to how operations and QA validate software—lessons that should inform how we build AI-augmented systems.

6. Formal methods with Hillel Wayne

   Jul 29, 2026

   Hillel Wayne, a formal methods consultant and author of 'Logic for Programmers,' discusses his research comparing software engineering to traditional engineering disciplines, his work with TLA+ for formal verification, and the practical applications of formal methods in industry. The conversation explores whether AI-written code necessitates formal verification, the crossover project findings on software vs. traditional engineering, property-based testing as a middle ground, and Wayne's concerns about how AI may reshape the software engineering profession.

7. Context engineering with Dex Horthy

   Jul 15, 2026

8. The Pragmatic Engineer AMA

   Jul 8, 2026

9. How Kent Beck shapes the software engineering industry

   Jul 1, 2026

10. Tech interviews with NeetCode

    Jun 24, 2026