The Pragmatic Engineer
Engineering organizations and dev practice, for people who write code
1:52:59Software Is 10x Slower Because of Architecture, Not Code
Software runs 10 to 100 times slower than it needs to, and the root cause is not coding technique but serial dependencies at the architecture layer; correct optimization means fixing the hardware's theoretical peak and then measuring the gap — which requires that whoever makes the architecture decisions understands assembly.
1:31:35AI Is Devaluing Code; an Engineer's Moat Is Taste and Accountability
Addy Osmani, who leads Chrome DevTools, argues that AI has devalued writing code and that an engineer's real edge is taste and accountability — and warns against cognitive surrender, treating the AI's answer as your own.
1:25:32You don't have to read AI's code line by line, but trust has to be rebuilt
AI in 2025 is where the cloud was in 2010. The real question is not whether to read the code AI writes, but when not to read it, and how to rebuild trust with tests, evals, and an honest accounting of the on-call cost.