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The Pragmatic Engineer

The Pragmatic Engineer is an interview show with the people building AI, hosted by Gergely Orosz, with a new episode every week.

6 moments cut from 2 episodes, mostly on coding agents and AI agents.

Also No. 10 of 18 tech podcasts.

New episodes
Weekly
Latest
Oct 21, 2026
Moments cut
6
Episodes cut
2

What its moments are about

  • Coding agents2
  • AI agents1

Best moments from The Pragmatic Engineer

From its most-watched episodes, best first. Each plays right here.

  1. The Pragmatic Engineer · · 5 min

    Fail open or fail closed depends on the business context

    “Keep that problem exactly the same, but now change the business context. Now we're sending concert tickets. So you're getting tickets to go see Tay-Tay, right?”
    The Pragmatic Engineer1:22:21

  2. The Pragmatic Engineer · · 3 min

    Uber reused cloud workspaces to give agents ready-to-build repos

    “we had one devpod per monorepo so if i'm working primarily in java monorepo”
    The Pragmatic Engineer17:13

  3. The Pragmatic Engineer · · 5 min

    Make retries safe with idempotency keys, not just fingerprints

    “so that's the problem with an item potency you want to make it safe to retry important”
    The Pragmatic Engineer1:10:54

  4. The Pragmatic Engineer · · 5 min

    Uber generated MCP tools from service contracts

    “we could use that registry to generate a default mcp spec for them”
    The Pragmatic Engineer31:09

  5. The Pragmatic Engineer · · 2 min

    Robustness is only one of four parts of resilience

    “One of the really nasty things about robustness is the things we often do to make our systems more robust in turn increases the complexity of our system”
    The Pragmatic Engineer1:26:36

  6. The Pragmatic Engineer · · 6 min

    Production replay lets agents validate fixes against real traffic

    “essentially you can capture real production traffic with just one middleware because now we have standardized language frameworks across all the services”
    The Pragmatic Engineer1:07:36

The best The Pragmatic Engineer episodes

Ranked as our lists rank shows: a point for each best minute we cut from it, one more when an AI builder is talking, and one more when it cleared our views bar.

  1. 01Building resilient systems with Sam NewmanOct 7, 2026 · 3 moments
  2. 02Uber’s AI infra, from the insideOct 14, 2026 · 3 moments

The 2 guests we’ve cut

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