New trend: extreme hours at AI startups

**New trend: extreme hours at AI startups**

Two months after publishing this article, The Wall Street Journal covered the same trend in its article AI workers are putting in 100-hour workweeks to win the new tech arms race. If you'd like to keep up-to-date with the tech industry – and stay months ahead of mainstream media – subscribe to The Pragmatic Engineer.Hi, this is Gergely with a bonus, free issue of the Pragmatic Engineer Newsletter. In every issue, I cover Big Tech and startups through the lens of senior engineers and engineering leaders. Today, we cover one out of four topics from this week’s The Pulse issue. To get articles like this in your inbox, every week, subscribe here.“996” stands for “from 9am to 9pm, 6 days a week”, and used to be a common work pattern at Chinese tech companies until it was officially banned starting from 2021...

---

**[devsupporter 해설]**

이 기사는 The Pragmatic Engineer에서 제공하는 최신 개발 동향입니다. 관련 도구나 기술에 대해 더 알아보시려면 원본 링크를 참고하세요.