# The Pragmatic Engineer: Latest YouTube Videos & Shorts

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As of 2026-10-27, The Pragmatic Engineer has 542,000 subscribers, 21,702,120 total views, and 305 videos. It ranks #140,896 by subscribers among channels tracked by vidIQ.

The most recent uploads from [The Pragmatic Engineer](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@pragmaticengineer/). Each video links to its own stats page. The page lists the rest of the channel's videos to signed-in vidIQ users.

## About this sample

- The latest upload vidIQ has for The Pragmatic Engineer is “Middle managers: either retire or reskill”, a Short published Oct 25, 2026.
- These are The Pragmatic Engineer’s 48 most recent public uploads vidIQ has data for, published between Aug 12, 2026 and Oct 25, 2026 (11 long-form videos and 37 Shorts).
- Median views across these 48 uploads: 7,298. 24 videos are above that median and 24 below.
- Most viewed in the sample: “From Chrome DevTools to AI Engineering, with Addy Osmani” (303,002 views, Aug 19, 2026). Least viewed: “You can't control everything in resilient systems” (2,260 views, Oct 23, 2026).
- Median length: 1:34:18 for 11 long-form videos; 0:55 for 37 Shorts.
- In this sample, The Pragmatic Engineer’s consecutive uploads were a median of 1 day apart (shortest gap 0 days, longest 6 days).
- Views are lifetime totals as of Oct 28, 2026, so newer uploads have had less time to collect them. These figures describe only the videos listed here, not the whole channel, and do not show why any video performed as it did. Dates are UTC.

## Recent uploads

| Video | Published (UTC) | Format | Views | Duration | Outlier score |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [Middle managers: either retire or reskill](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@pragmaticengineer/videos/L2hOD5QtAqI/) | 2026-10-25 | Short | 2,607 | 0:44 | - |
| [Why Staff engineers don’t only get to work on fun problems](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@pragmaticengineer/videos/PkFdtpdDG5c/) | 2026-10-24 | Short | 8,438 | 0:51 | 2.96x |
| [You can't control everything in resilient systems](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@pragmaticengineer/videos/lYpWiV9SwC4/) | 2026-10-23 | Short | 2,260 | 0:48 | - |
| [The revised rules of engineering management with Will Larson](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@pragmaticengineer/videos/Prl858_AovM/) | 2026-10-21 | Long-form | 160,837 | 1:56:28 | 1.05x |
| [Codebases that improve themselves](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@pragmaticengineer/videos/WH5MXo75Lfc/) | 2026-10-19 | Short | 4,091 | 0:56 | 1.15x |
| [At Uber, 15% of PRs are from Minion](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@pragmaticengineer/videos/0PlOtbQIknk/) | 2026-10-15 | Short | 3,340 | 0:52 | - |
| [Uber’s AI infra, from the inside](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@pragmaticengineer/videos/MDUYSMJmi8A/) | 2026-10-14 | Long-form | 175,151 | 1:34:18 | 0.89x |
| ["The SLA is what you're going to get sued for on a breach"](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@pragmaticengineer/videos/19eqJQS1QfY/) | 2026-10-13 | Short | 3,782 | 0:59 | - |
| ["We’ll stop reading code like we stopped reading assembly"](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@pragmaticengineer/videos/ztsuqMpVylM/) | 2026-10-11 | Short | 22,223 | 0:56 | 5.44x |
| [Why did the LLM delete my database?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@pragmaticengineer/videos/VtMWkfMaJBw/) | 2026-10-10 | Short | 4,032 | 0:54 | - |
| [Microservices: the architecture of last resort](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@pragmaticengineer/videos/z5usRAeqSSY/) | 2026-10-08 | Short | 6,257 | 0:55 | 1.41x |
| [Building resilient systems with Sam Newman](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@pragmaticengineer/videos/a0sZV0qIbI0/) | 2026-10-07 | Long-form | 169,145 | 1:59:05 | 0.82x |
| [The state of the tech industry in 2026 - LDX3 New York](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@pragmaticengineer/videos/Ru99FGJ_yuE/) | 2026-10-06 | Long-form | 293,968 | 29:39 | 1.41x |
| [Agents are lazy about testing](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@pragmaticengineer/videos/Y8Fv4SlEUp4/) | 2026-10-06 | Short | 3,513 | 0:33 | - |
| [Why models struggle with design](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@pragmaticengineer/videos/HAwxOr99KjQ/) | 2026-10-04 | Short | 3,221 | 0:39 | - |
| [The F1 driver era of AI coding](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@pragmaticengineer/videos/LHLmcxARfXo/) | 2026-10-03 | Short | 4,169 | 0:54 | - |
| [Turning down Google in 2001](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@pragmaticengineer/videos/Mo3BUY15aDU/) | 2026-10-01 | Short | 2,997 | 0:40 | - |
| [Distributed databases with Peter Mattis](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@pragmaticengineer/videos/0GzwuYGvKA4/) | 2026-09-30 | Long-form | 188,915 | 1:42:32 | 0.94x |
| [“Problem solving on paper”](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@pragmaticengineer/videos/mZ1JyazxSds/) | 2026-09-29 | Short | 2,832 | 0:57 | - |
| [Quitting Vercel to launch Total TypeScript](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@pragmaticengineer/videos/UXKJgI4iOc8/) | 2026-09-27 | Short | 17,609 | 0:59 | 1.99x |
| [Sketching a tiny weather robot for ESP32](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@pragmaticengineer/videos/KoLesHrVm1A/) | 2026-09-26 | Short | 4,728 | 0:33 | - |
| [Agents should show, not ask](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@pragmaticengineer/videos/gnYNZEwq9ho/) | 2026-09-24 | Short | 5,249 | 0:55 | - |
| [Design Engineering with Maggie Appleton](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@pragmaticengineer/videos/KZSzF0KEFRg/) | 2026-09-23 | Long-form | 196,424 | 1:28:32 | 0.9x |
| [Why strategic programming is like a mixing desk](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@pragmaticengineer/videos/CgQCi8qQ3Fw/) | 2026-09-22 | Short | 10,456 | 0:43 | 1.04x |
| [Pivoting from voice coach to software engineer](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@pragmaticengineer/videos/28TM-L9MTXM/) | 2026-09-20 | Short | 7,721 | 0:53 | - |
| [Plan by day, let agents code by night](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@pragmaticengineer/videos/OIulx_R3TLY/) | 2026-09-18 | Short | 43,817 | 0:55 | 2.62x |
| [AI Skills with Matt Pocock](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@pragmaticengineer/videos/4DhcSPkEbwI/) | 2026-09-17 | Long-form | 243,359 | 1:36:37 | 1.06x |
| [How do you deal with AI getting so good at coding?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@pragmaticengineer/videos/jYZ3XGJ8GUA/) | 2026-09-14 | Short | 9,727 | 1:07 | - |
| [Clean Code, Horrible Performance](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@pragmaticengineer/videos/sGOqovf0OTc/) | 2026-09-13 | Short | 15,709 | 1:09 | 1.88x |
| [How is code review changing?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@pragmaticengineer/videos/_w1pmgvdDXI/) | 2026-09-11 | Short | 3,773 | 0:50 | - |
| [Is local dev disappearing with agents?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@pragmaticengineer/videos/r4Mn_HJkN6A/) | 2026-09-10 | Short | 3,546 | 1:02 | - |
| [Why Codex was built in Rust](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@pragmaticengineer/videos/MMHNmfQvw8Q/) | 2026-09-10 | Short | 10,344 | 1:16 | 1.33x |
| [Building Codex with Tibo Sottiaux](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@pragmaticengineer/videos/sLSTM9znQNs/) | 2026-09-09 | Long-form | 224,534 | 1:14:23 | 1.02x |
| [Performant code is usually well architected code](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@pragmaticengineer/videos/deB3LNWW5dA/) | 2026-09-03 | Short | 31,084 | 1:06 | 4.68x |
| [All devs should learn Assembly](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@pragmaticengineer/videos/Ze7Cmz2i9QQ/) | 2026-09-01 | Short | 6,545 | 1:05 | 1.07x |
| [Not everyone is adopting AI](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@pragmaticengineer/videos/LJFTH2VnUOk/) | 2026-08-30 | Short | 16,579 | 1:21 | 2.97x |
| [GTA 6 is not a game they're selling to players](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@pragmaticengineer/videos/HKlPmuh3Qrs/) | 2026-08-27 | Short | 141,603 | 1:09 | 27.12x |
| [Why performant code matters (but gets widely ignored), with Casey Muratori](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@pragmaticengineer/videos/8xBJPa_480Q/) | 2026-08-26 | Long-form | 234,682 | 1:53:59 | 1.11x |
| [What does a Google director do?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@pragmaticengineer/videos/XNAeptioFKU/) | 2026-08-25 | Short | 5,587 | 0:48 | 1.19x |
| [“Treat computing as an onion"](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@pragmaticengineer/videos/FZUJDt-vJ8o/) | 2026-08-23 | Short | 4,457 | 0:47 | - |
| [Google execs are coding again](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@pragmaticengineer/videos/_joc-VGAkOA/) | 2026-08-21 | Short | 6,875 | 0:34 | 1.25x |
| [A better way to use AI agents: mutual amplification](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@pragmaticengineer/videos/hOrtIm4Mbvg/) | 2026-08-20 | Short | 8,823 | 0:43 | 1.61x |
| [From Chrome DevTools to AI Engineering, with Addy Osmani](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@pragmaticengineer/videos/2fyPnxKu8ZM/) | 2026-08-19 | Long-form | 303,002 | 1:32:30 | 1.45x |
| [It’s disrespectful to send AI slop](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@pragmaticengineer/videos/Jb5VHUkowTk/) | 2026-08-18 | Short | 4,613 | 0:59 | - |
| [It’s respectable when managers want to go back to being ICs](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@pragmaticengineer/videos/wK2Dderg5s4/) | 2026-08-16 | Short | 2,754 | 0:55 | - |
| [Rich data is worth gold in observability](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@pragmaticengineer/videos/UmCA_x5Sf-s/) | 2026-08-14 | Short | 2,525 | 1:09 | - |
| [Get AI on your resume. Do it now.](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@pragmaticengineer/videos/ZPY4o4BhBf0/) | 2026-08-13 | Short | 4,851 | 1:03 | 1x |
| [Stop being skeptical about AI for development with Charity Majors](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@pragmaticengineer/videos/HC8T1OlgYi0/) | 2026-08-12 | Long-form | 214,031 | 1:26:23 | 1.03x |

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