chad fowler

Finding this to be quite a bit more interesting these days. bsky.app/profile/chadfo…

@chadfowler x.com/jessmartin/sta…

Today I'm thrilled to open source what I've been working on... Meet Fabro (github.com/fabro-sh/fabro), the dark software factory for small teams of expert engineers. Fabro gets you out of the REPL (read-eval-prompt-loop) by layering deterministic workflow graphs over agent sessions. It's batteries included with cloud sandboxes, quality sign offs, multi-model ensembles, and Git checkpoints. It's MIT licensed so you can fork and own your AI coding toolchain. Single Rust binary with zero deps. I'd love to hear what you think!

One of the things I really wanted to get right with Fabro was solid docs on day one. Still more to do, but I think we are off to a good tart. If you're interested in software factories, there's likely something interesting in here: docs.fabro.sh

Excited to finally get to try this myself. I got a chance to look at some early development, and it's exciting work. fabro.sh

I don't typically wade into politics, it's not my thing, but I do think war is something that deserves to be treated with the weight it carries. That's not a partisan statement, it's a human one. I don't believe our founding fathers would have approved of treating war and death like a video game. ❤️

We are excited to announce that we’ve raised a $45M Series B, co-led by BlackFin Capital Partners and Sentinel Global, with continued support from @blueyard, @1kxnetwork, Alven and Ledger Cathay. 8 years ago, we made a bet that digital assets will be integrated into regulated financial markets. That thesis is playing out. Given our early commitment, we pioneered auditable data transformation and back-office operations for financial institutions, banks, asset managers and fintechs. Today, 400 leading institutions across the ecosystem rely on us to manage accounting, reconciliation, and financial reporting across blockchain-based operations. This new funding allows us to accelerate our mission of building the ERP infrastructure layer for the digital asset economy. We’re expanding the platform with new applications on top of our data layer, including loan management, treasury management and tokenization compliance. Huge thanks to our investors, customers, partners and especially the incredible Cryptio team who made this possible.

Let there be as much outrage from politicians in Washington when kids go hungry as there is when I break bread with New Yorkers.

@shaunmmaguire 😂

Bari is doing great work She is rapidly bringing back real bipartisan journalism

I've been thinking for a while about the types of primitives emerging that can shift the business model of the Internet and also shape new offerings. It's distilled here as some food for thought: The New Primitives (link below). For those who take the time to read it, thanks.

@chadfowler The software "dark factory" > I know a handful of people who are doing this. They’re small teams, less than five people. And what they’re doing is nearly unbelievable – and it will likely be our future. danshapiro.com/blog/2026/01/t…

This framing resonates. It makes payment authorization programmable so agents can only execute transactions that provably match the user’s intent, which is exactly what makes an agent-to-agent economy possible.

One of the most important lessons any developer should take with them into the generative AI era: The mutability of a system is enhanced by the immutability of its components.

@chadfowler My favorite abstract analogy for the shift: x.com/jessmartin/sta…

today's attempt at raising my ambition: give Claude an entire release (~20-30 user stories) and have it ralph loop all night with codex as implementor. Can I hand off ~8 hours of work and have quality work come out?

Now that Obama’s poll numbers are in tailspin – watch for him to launch a strike in Libya or Iran. He is desperate.

Love to see it! Prediction: within a couple years the terminal GUI will no longer be the primary interface to agents, but there's going to be a hell of a lot of libghostty because agents are going to be increasingly talking to CLIs on the back side for a good long while.

What if finding your people worked like talking out loud? LLMs make it easy to understand context. What if we could apply that infra to finding your others? (Or on the flip side, letting your others find you?) Wrote about what that could look like here: index.network/blog/intent-is…

One of the most inspiring events I have been to for the past couple of years. Don’t miss it! localfirstconf.com

Amazon had two-pizza teams but we’re quickly moving into two-pizza-slice teams territory. I’ve explained this to probably 20 CEOs and engineering leaders in the last month and most of them aren’t even thinking about it yet.

Crypto holds the key to quantum resilience, yet this is often overlooked. At @plcapital we've made several bets in the space (denoted by an *) particularly around FHE. We consider FHE a bet on quantum resilience 🧵