The state of the tech industry in 2026 - LDX3 New York

Name: The state of the tech industry in 2026 - LDX3 New York
Uploaded: 2026-10-07T00:00:00.000Z
Duration: 1779 s
Channel: The Pragmatic Engineer
Description: Gergely Orosz compresses a year of interviews into 30 minutes. Changed: engineers run 5-10 agent sessions in parallel; agent PRs up ~10x. Unchanged: teams stay the unit of work. Broken: code review collapses under volume; managers check out as AI startups outbid pay. Next: cloud agents.

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Summary：Gergely Orosz compresses a year of interviews into 30 minutes. Changed: engineers run 5-10 agent sessions in parallel; agent PRs up ~10x. Unchanged: teams stay the unit of work. Broken: code review collapses under volume; managers check out as AI startups outbid pay. Next: cloud agents.

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Core points (3)

1Engineers' real load is now agent orchestration: 5-10 concurrent sessions is the norm.
2Code review is the first casualty of volume; some teams drop gates for non-critical changes.
3Run a 2022-style org and you fall behind; hiring bars are being rewritten around AI builders.