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The Pragmatic Engineer

Stop being skeptical about AI for development with Charity Majors

Aug 12, 2026 · 1h 26m

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Brought to You By: • Antithesis – verify your system’s correctness without human review or traditional integration tests – and avoid bugs or outages. • WorkOS – everything you need to make your app enterprise ready. • Buildkite – CI software built to absorb whatever your coding agents throw at the build queue — In 2025, it was rational to be skeptical about AI, but in 2026 it’s clear that AI is changing all of the industry, and there’s less and less place for skepticism. This take is from one of my favorite voices in software reliability and observability: Charity Majors, CTO and cofounder of Honeycomb, co-author of Observability Engineering . (Note: the second edition of Observability…