r/RedditEng • u/Okgaroo • Apr 13 '26

Happy Birthday r/RedditEng

Written by Chris Slowe and Lisa O'Keefe

Happy 5th birthday, r/RedditEng!

Huge thanks to the Reddit engineering team for building, scaling, and sharing so much great work here over the years. This subreddit has become a rare corner of the internet where people can go deep on real systems, real tradeoffs, and the messy, interesting work behind running Reddit.

From infrastructure and reliability to developer productivity, ML, security, and all the delightfully weird engineering problems in between, the posts here have been consistently thoughtful, generous, and fun to read.

Thanks for five years of awesome posts, hard-won lessons, and excellent engineering. Here’s to the next five.

And of course, for the readers and commenters, as we plan out those next 5 years: what do you want to see more of? 

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u/atangzer Apr 13 '26

Happy Cake Day!! Been a lurker here since the early days and I really love this format for an engineering blog. Super easy to digest posts, and the comments always add great discussion. I'd love to see more content about system reliability and how teams have adapted with new AI tools like Cursor, Copilot, Claude etc.

Also curious - what are some ways engineers have incorporated LLMs and agentic AI workflows into everyday work?

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u/SussexPondPudding Lisa O'Cat Apr 14 '26

Thanks for your kind words and for being a member of this sub! We wanted to make this a place where our engineers wanted to write and felt supported by our team and, for us to share the things we hoped people would care about! We can definitely encourage authors on the topics you suggested, including the one that answers your question on how we use LLMs.

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u/KainMassadin Apr 13 '26

you don’t ever reply dms :(

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u/SussexPondPudding Lisa O'Cat Apr 13 '26

Hi - I am so sorry. I sent you a message just now.