Technically
Justin, Sachin, Sarah Krasnik Bedell, Matt Henderson, Sung Won Chung, David Krevitt, Afzal Jasani, Christy Bieber, Kenny Ning, Will Raphaelson, Sam SchneiderMaking practical sense of software and AI.
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What's Harness Engineering?
The TL;DR
An AI model on its own can only talk.
A harness is the software wrapped around it that lets it actually do things: touch your files, run your tools, and remember what happened.
- An AI model by itself only answers a promp...
What does Turbopuffer do?
And what's going on in the search tooling market?
The TL;DR
What is Rust? Part 1: What is a Programming Language?
Rust is a statically-typed, compiled programming language that enforces memory safety through -- record scratch
Woah woah woah. Let’s back up.
What is a programming language?
Computers have the notable distinction of being at once o...
Everything is a Pipeline
We’re in a major cognitive dissonance era right now. AI is “moving so fast.” We all “feel behind.” So we use AI to deliver quick results (vibe coding, analyzing 30 page PDFs, Claude doing your taxes). But token maxxing leaves us feeling hol...
What are code sandboxes?
Why coding agents need a safe place to play, just like we all do.
Sandboxes.
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explaining software and AI for the people
Infrastructure ethnography
Growth, analytics, builder, & advisor. Growth @ Railway, and recovering data engineer. BA Johns Hopkins, MS Northwestern.
I lead growth at Sentry. This is where I share what I'm learning out loud about devtools, digital, OOH, AEO, and building growth functions.
Big 4 CPA → self-taught data engineer → dev tools seller at dbt Labs, Datafold, Tobiko. Two Fivetran acquisitions later, I write about career philosophy, macro trends, game theory, and the incentives that shape how we behave.
Site reliability engineer at Technically
Background in data engineering, solutions architecture, and GTM across Fivetran, dbt Labs, and Tobiko Cloud. Writing about AI infrastructure, LLM tooling, and GTM in AI.
Typing words online for 16+ years. AI enthusiast with concerns.
Data engineer at Modal
Product guy interested in slick tooling, infra, o11y, and what makes the tech world go 'round. Ex-Confluent, Capital One, Prefect, and more.
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