Layoffs push down scores on Glassdoor – how companies respond(newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com)

345 points by EvgeniyZh 3 years ago | 226 comments

A free Pragmatic Engineer newsletter issue by Gergely Orosz on how tech layoffs lowered Glassdoor ratings and how companies respond to fix their scores.

AI fakers exposed in tech dev recruitment: postmortem(newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com)

17 points by iamflimflam1 1 year ago | 4 comments

AI-assisted coding will change software engineering: hard truths(newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com)

59 points by pseudolus 1 year ago | 71 comments

What are Forward Deployed Engineers, and why are they so in demand? (2025)(newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com)

76 points by saisrirampur 3 months ago | 81 comments

Lessons from bootstrapped companies founded by software engineers(newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com)

75 points by BerislavLopac 3 years ago | 28 comments

Decoupling design from engineering(buttondown.com)

58 points by jwworth 2 years ago | 25 comments

Meta disbanded its Responsible AI team(theverge.com)

359 points by jo_beef 2 years ago | 323 comments

The Verge news article reporting that Meta disbanded its Responsible AI team, with members moving to other AI teams at the company.

Don't become an engineering manager(newsletter.manager.dev)

364 points by flail 7 months ago | 259 comments

A Manager.dev newsletter post by Anton Zaides arguing that engineers should reconsider accepting promotions to engineering manager roles.

Meta’s renewed commitment to jemalloc(engineering.fb.com)

495 points by hahahacorn 7 months ago | 226 comments

Engineering at Meta blog post announcing Meta's renewed investment in and commitment to maintaining the open-source jemalloc memory allocator.

Meta's new LLM-based test generator(read.engineerscodex.com)

332 points by ben_s 2 years ago | 162 comments

Engineer's Codex newsletter post about Meta's TestGen-LLM, an LLM-based tool that generates and filters unit tests to improve developer productivity.

Meta is killing off its AI-powered Instagram and Facebook profiles(theguardian.com)

340 points by n1b0m 1 year ago | 485 comments

Guardian article reporting that Meta is removing its AI-generated Instagram and Facebook profiles after backlash, including over a persona called 'proud Black queer momma'.

Thinking fast and slow in AI: The role of metacognition (2021)(arxiv.org)

165 points by teleforce 28 days ago | 68 comments

An arXiv paper proposing a multi-agent AI architecture inspired by Kahneman's fast and slow thinking, with a metacognitive module choosing between system 1 and system 2 agents.