Hi, this is Gergely with an issue of the Pragmatic Engineer Newsletter. In every issue, I cover challenges at Big Tech and startups through the lens o

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Hi, this is Gergely with an issue of the Pragmatic Engineer Newsletter. In every issue, I cover challenges at Big Tech and startups through the lens of engineering managers and senior engineers. To get articles like this in your inbox, every week, subscribe:

Which IDEs do software engineers love, and why? Software engineers shared their favorite integrated development environments (IDEs) on social media, and the most-mentioned one by a comfortable margin was Cursor. WindSurf and Zed also seem to be getting traction at the expense of Visual Studio, and JetBrains.

Industry pulse. The Model Context Protocol by Anthropic; Bluesky getting close to Threads; Automattic crosses another ethical red line; Amazon resignations could be up again, and more.

It’s been nearly 6 months since our research into which AI tools software engineers use, in the mini-series, AI tooling for software engineers: reality check. At the time, the most popular tools were ChatGPT for LLMs, and GitHub copilot for IDE-integrated tooling. Then this summer, I saw the Cursor IDE becoming popular around when Anthropic’s Sonnet 3.5 model was released, which has superior code generation compared to ChatGPT. Cursor started using that improved model.

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