--- schema: 1 type: video title: >- How AI is changing Software Engineering: A Conversation with Gergely Orosz, @pragmaticengineer description: >- Gergely Orosz is a formar Uber and Skyscanner engineer and is the author of https://www.engguidebook.com/ and https://www.pragmaticengineer.com/ , the #1 software/AI engineering newsletter on Substack, built from scratch in Amsterdam but read by millions around the world. Speaker info: - https://x.com/GergelyOrosz - https://nl.linkedin.com/company/the-pragmatic-engineer Timestamps: 0:00 What is token maxing? 5:27 Is AI-driven productivity worth the hype? 12:42 How the role of the software engineer is changing 14:45 Are engineers now engineering managers for AI? 17:31 Large tech infrastructure and internal AI tooling 20:41 Why companies like Shopify invest heavily in AI churn 22:56 Growing The Pragmatic Engineer and finding product-market fit --- Watch along with the corrected transcript, summary, timestamps and resources on this talk's official AIE page: https://ai.engineer/talks/CS5Cmz5FssI-software-engineering-ai Join our upcoming AI Engineer conferences (see https://ai.engineer landing page): - AIEi Shanghai, November 5–6 — the first for meeting top Chinese labs and engineers - AIE CODE in SF, November 10–12 — the top AI Coding conference returns - AIEi Sydney, December 7–8 — the first AIEi run alongside NeurIPS 2026 in Sydney --- canonical: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/CS5Cmz5FssI' markdown: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/CS5Cmz5FssI.md' llms: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/CS5Cmz5FssI/llms.txt' parent: 'https://liquidgold.cc/channel/aidotengineer.md' channel: aidotengineer updated: '2026-10-24T15:00:10.789Z' language: null children: [] videoId: CS5Cmz5FssI durationSeconds: 1602 publishedAt: '2026-04-21T16:00:06.000Z' searchChunks: - ordinal: 0 text: null startSeconds: 17 endSeconds: 127 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/CS5Cmz5FssI?t=17' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 1 text: null startSeconds: 17 endSeconds: 127 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/CS5Cmz5FssI?t=17' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 2 text: null startSeconds: 127 endSeconds: 139 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/CS5Cmz5FssI?t=127' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 3 text: null startSeconds: 139 endSeconds: 227 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/CS5Cmz5FssI?t=139' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 4 text: null startSeconds: 227 endSeconds: 238 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/CS5Cmz5FssI?t=227' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 5 text: null startSeconds: 238 endSeconds: 334 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/CS5Cmz5FssI?t=238' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 6 text: null startSeconds: 346 endSeconds: 437 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/CS5Cmz5FssI?t=346' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 7 text: null startSeconds: 437 endSeconds: 448 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/CS5Cmz5FssI?t=437' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 8 text: null startSeconds: 448 endSeconds: 529 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/CS5Cmz5FssI?t=448' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 9 text: null startSeconds: 529 endSeconds: 540 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/CS5Cmz5FssI?t=529' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 10 text: null startSeconds: 540 endSeconds: 627 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/CS5Cmz5FssI?t=540' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 11 text: null startSeconds: 627 endSeconds: 639 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/CS5Cmz5FssI?t=627' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 12 text: null startSeconds: 639 endSeconds: 768 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/CS5Cmz5FssI?t=639' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 13 text: null startSeconds: 779 endSeconds: 890 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/CS5Cmz5FssI?t=779' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 14 text: null startSeconds: 779 endSeconds: 890 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/CS5Cmz5FssI?t=779' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 15 text: null startSeconds: 901 endSeconds: 1058 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/CS5Cmz5FssI?t=901' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 16 text: null startSeconds: 1069 endSeconds: 1245 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/CS5Cmz5FssI?t=1069' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 17 text: null startSeconds: 1257 endSeconds: 1376 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/CS5Cmz5FssI?t=1257' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 18 text: null startSeconds: 1387 endSeconds: 1602 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/CS5Cmz5FssI?t=1387' heldReason: rights --- # How AI is changing Software Engineering: A Conversation with Gergely Orosz, @pragmaticengineer Gergely Orosz is a formar Uber and Skyscanner engineer and is the author of https://www.engguidebook.com/ and https://www.pragmaticengineer.com/ , the #1 software/AI engineering newsletter on Substack, built from scratch in Amsterdam but read by millions around the world. Speaker info: - https://x.com/GergelyOrosz - https://nl.linkedin.com/company/the-pragmatic-engineer Timestamps: 0:00 What is token maxing? 5:27 Is AI-driven productivity worth the hype? 12:42 How the role of the software engineer is changing 14:45 Are engineers now engineering managers for AI? 17:31 Large tech infrastructure and internal AI tooling 20:41 Why companies like Shopify invest heavily in AI churn 22:56 Growing The Pragmatic Engineer and finding product-market fit --- Watch along with the corrected transcript, summary, timestamps and resources on this talk's official AIE page: https://ai.engineer/talks/CS5Cmz5FssI-software-engineering-ai Join our upcoming AI Engineer conferences (see https://ai.engineer landing page): - AIEi Shanghai, November 5–6 — the first for meeting top Chinese labs and engineers - AIE CODE in SF, November 10–12 — the top AI Coding conference returns - AIEi Sydney, December 7–8 — the first AIEi run alongside NeurIPS 2026 in Sydney --- Canonical: https://liquidgold.cc/watch/CS5Cmz5FssI · Channel: [AI Engineer](https://liquidgold.cc/channel/aidotengineer.md) > Search chunk text is held until public-source provenance is verified. ## Document chunks > Missing: no stored document chunks are available.