The state of the tech industry in 2026

(newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com)

6 points | by qikouki 9 hours ago ago

3 comments

  • mertbio 7 hours ago ago

    Read this article with a grain of salt since many people nowadays live in their own bubble.

    > Non-engineers are still not shipping prod code.

    I heard from many people that at their company, product managers and designers are forced to create at least 3 PRs per week. Initially they started as changing small things but nowadays they implement a whole feature.

    Also, interestingly the article doesn’t mention that many companies are now token ranking their employees and creating leaderboards to fire them easily.

    This is the reason why I stopped following Gergely. Before he started to get many sponsors, he was talking about the problems that developers are having. Nowadays he became a PR machine for the big tech and startups.

  • MichaelRo 8 hours ago ago

    >> practically nobody writes code by hand anymore, working with 5-10 agents more common

    What bubble are these people living in?

    • entrepy123 8 hours ago ago

      Answered in TFA, the described scenario is findable precisely in:

      > AI labs, VC-funded startups and Big Tech