Articles from blog.pragmaticengineer.com
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- The Pulse: We need to talk about migrations with AI - The Pragmatic Engineer
AI-powered migrations slashed Asana’s Enzyme removal from a projected five‑year, $6M effort to two weeks and $12K, proving formerly impractical upgrades now feasible.
- The Pulse: What can we learn from Bun’s rapid Rust rewrite with AI? - The Pragmatic Engineer
Bun’s Zig-to-Rust rewrite was completed in 11 days using 64 AI agents, costing $165K, showing AI can accelerate large migrations when a solid test suite and expert oversight exist.
- The Pulse: a new trend, smart model routing - The Pragmatic Engineer
Several vendors now offer intelligent model routers that automatically select the cheapest sufficient LLM per task, promising 20-30% cost savings, a trend expected to become table stakes.
- The Pulse: ‘Tokenmaxxing’ as a weird new trend - The Pragmatic Engineer
At Meta, Microsoft, and Salesforce, developers are deliberately burning AI tokens to inflate usage metrics, causing massive waste and prompting Meta to remove its internal leaderboard.
- I replaced a $120/year micro-SaaS in 20 minutes with LLM-generated code - The Pragmatic Engineer
Author replaced a $120/year micro-SaaS with LLM-generated code in 20 minutes, highlighting risk for static SaaS that offers no ongoing value.