How software engineering is changing: a tale of two eras
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Neil Kakkar, a London software engineer, won The Pragmatic Engineer's essay challenge with a first-person account of his output rising from roughly 8 to 20 merged pull requests a month at pre-AI PostHog to over 200 at AI-native startup Tano, about 11 times more.