Gergely Orosz ✓

@GergelyOrosz · Amsterdam, The Netherlands · joined 10 Apr 2009

Writing @Pragmatic_Eng, the #1 software engineering newsletter on Substack. Author of @EngGuidebook. Formerly Uber & Skype.

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Metric	This account	Median for 100K–1M	Ratio
Median views per post	42 754	22 338	1.91×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	12.13%	6.70%	1.81×
Engagement rate	0.98%	1.18%	0.83×

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Ok, THIS is wild, never expected anything like this: Uber exited Nigeria… no warning, just shut down the app, on the spot. When riders were mid-trip ?!! This is what a startup that just went bankrupt would do, not a $150B corporation. Uber operated in Nigeria since 2014 (!!) 559.8K views · 7.2K likes · 602 reposts · 95 replies 02 Sep 2026 "There's a satisfaction [to onboarding a junior eng] that you can't get from talking to Claude." When will more of the industry re-discover a big reason we hired interns and new grads? It wasn't because they were productive on day one. And yet they help teams from day one... 35.7K views · 535 likes · 19 reposts · 19 replies 02 Sep 2026 Best part of my week has been onboarding a junior out of college. There’s a satisfaction to that you can’t get from talking to Claude 38.7K views · 32 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies 02 Sep 2026 The Uber rapture is wild! Drivers and riders were mid-trip when it happened. Insane! 1.4M views · 6.2K likes · 738 reposts · 58 replies 02 Sep 2026 Also, local models seem inevitable. I want to be able to run a “good enough” model on my laptop, or even on my phone, and not depend on paying for an API that changes prices in ways I don’t control. AI labs will hate this idea of the future, cloud providers will love it tho. 46.8K views · 723 likes · 27 reposts · 65 replies 02 Sep 2026 Excited to share that @turbopuffer is the presenting sponsor for The Pragmatic Engineer Podcast, for the fall: It all started by @Sirupsen telling Cursor he can reduce their database bill by 95%... and he did (!!) Hardcore engineering under the hood https://t.co/bqlO3AHObz http 10K views · 43 likes · 3 reposts · 8 replies 02 Sep 2026 Substack launched analytics insights and: wow. Thank you to everyone reading @Pragmatic_Eng! https://t.co/X6owJ8af3N 700.9K views · 1.3K likes · 23 reposts · 71 replies 21 Jan 2023

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