The Pragmatic Engineer
Shares rank 16 of 42 podcasts by recommenders
Engineers recommend it for interviews with experienced software engineers and a newsletter on practical engineering cases, including how teams handle AI coding agents.
Engineers recommend it for interviews with experienced software engineers and a newsletter on practical engineering cases, including how teams handle AI coding agents.
10 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 9
- criticize it
- 1
- approval share
- 90%
Recommended in 6 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: recommended
- February 2026: recommended
- March 2026: recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: recommended
- June 2026: recommended
- July 2026: recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 9 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 9 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 6 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Accomplished engineers as podcast guests
“a podcast whose guests almost always have very impressive technical careers”
Comment from 16 Feb 2026 in “OpenClaw, OpenAI and the Future” “especially since watching this pragmatic engineer pod with Kent Beck”
Comment from 23 Jul 2026 in “Why Software Factories Fail” Gergely praised as interviewer and host
“it's a great channel/podcast. Gergely is a great interviewer.”
Comment from 1 Mar 2026 in “Ghostty – Terminal Emulator” “I think you will like his philosophies, I sure do.”
Comment from 5 Jun 2026 in “Ask HN: What is your (AI) dev tech stack / workflow? (June 2026)”
Other podcasts people recommend
The four most recommended other podcasts, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dwarkesh Podcast | 29 | 8 | 78% | 9 | — | Approved |
| Oxide and Friends | 26 | 3 | 90% | 10 | — | Approved |
| Acquired podcast | 25 | 0 | 100% | 11 | — | Approved |
| Behind the Bastards podcast | 18 | 1 | 95% | 11 | — | Approved |
| The Pragmatic EngineerThis page | 9 | 1 | 90% | 6 | — | — |
What people said
6 of the 10 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“especially since watching this pragmatic engineer pod with Kent Beck”
“gets right to the nub of what it feels like coding with agents”
“I think you will like his philosophies, I sure do.”
“Relevant Pragmatic Engineer newsletter with many more cases along these lines, along with how some people are handling them”
“it's a great channel/podcast. Gergely is a great interviewer.”
“a podcast whose guests almost always have very impressive technical careers”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.