Jacob Matson
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Jacob Matson
@matsonj
excel user & data enthusiast. living the dream at MotherDuck

AI agents can now submit feedback directly into Layers. Our new Agentic Feedback API allows agents to report on search quality, discovery flows, missing results, relevance issues, and other merchandising signals in real time. Feedback is used to improve search behavior, guide learning systems, and surface opportunities for optimization automatically.

After an obscure defense vendor won a $12 million no-bid contract w/ ICE, I noticed something odd on its website: The firm was using a (still watermarked!) stock photo for the chief of its “development team.” Things only got more bizarre from there…




New Home page and analytics experience shipping today



That super sophisticated social monitoring technique is called being “chronically online”


Seattle has one of the worst housing crises in the country. I see it every time I’m home in my district. People working full-time jobs who can’t afford rent. Teachers, nurses, and transit workers who can’t live in the city they serve. Families on housing assistance waiting lists that have been frozen for years. This is a policy failure, not an inevitability. We built this crisis by choosing developers over people. We can choose differently. Housing is a human right. We fight for it like one.

Kinda funny how many of the “AI experts” on here are in jobs like DevRel

I might get cancelled for this one - but it’s been on my mind. I want to meet women in tech who are building the tech - coders, engineers, developers. I am still kind of confused where we lost the plot with the term “tech” - and how it now basically means a startup, and not engineering. Tbh when i go to tech events, i want to meet people who can relate to my experiences. In the future, I’d love to see more distinction - maybe we start going as women in software instead? What do you think? Am i about to get so much hate? 😳🙈 aaaaaa

Counties with a median income above 100K:


talking to young people who wish their jobs were fully remote makes me feel like i’m losing my mind. you’re at the point in life where you could most benefit from in-person relationship and knowledge building … but … you wanna get some errands done,






