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we're hiring a founding growth lead
$10k referral bonus
reqs:
- devtools or infra experience
- chronically online
- based in nyc
- gritty
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Shardool Patel
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building https://t.co/Y5mEw7sEyi | ex-Palantir
Katılım Ekim 2022
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Shardool Patel retweetledi
we're hiring engineers to build deployment infrastructure for AI startups shipping into critical industries
our medicine, our money, and our secrets run on systems carrying more consequence than any prior infrastructure was built to bear
code is generated at machine pace
systems are run at machine scope
decisions are made at machine distance
products use sensitive data at machine scale
we're a high agency, high ownership team, in-person in nyc
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generating code is easy
generating code that keeps up with changing requirements without breaking shit is hard
i don't know how you can avoid a mess without fundamentals and systems thinking
Lee Robinson@leerob
You might believe you should spend less time thinking about code because of AI. I strongly disagree! We’re watching this play out live where tons of AI generated code becomes a liability. At the end of the day, an engineer needs to be responsible / on call for code that gets shipped to production. If you don’t understand the system you’re trying to debug, you’re probably going to have a bad time. Yes, AI can help with all of this, if you set up the proper systems. You can have agents triage prod logs, look at errors, etc. You can speed up parts of the investigation, but an engineer needs to make the call. There might be serious customer or financial implications from that change. I expect the trend continue for trimming dependencies, vendoring code so you can modify it directly, preferring simpler systems with fewer abstractions, and spending waaaay more time thinking about system design and code maintenance. I’ve said this before, but it’s a great time to get familiar with CS fundamentals and some of the history behind what great software looks like. Many parts will be different in the coming years as AI progresses, but also a lot more than people realize will stay the same.
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spent years at Palantir deploying software into 300+ customer environments
wrote up everything i know about doing this, what BYOC actually is, what it costs to build (3-5 engineers, most of a year), when you need it
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Shardool Patel retweetledi
We had a customer’s product engineer spend 2 weeks configuring a Postgres database for an on-prem deployment to their customer’s AWS account
2 weeks of back and forth on encryption settings, backup policies, lifecycle rules, and monitoring
This keeps happening:
1/ Enterprise customers want everything in their own cloud
2/ Team scrambles to put Terraform together
3/ Your engineers are reading AWS docs on KMS key rotation instead of building product
4/ Then enterprise security review adds another month
We just shipped the Ryvn Blueprint Marketplace
Pre-built Postgres, Redis, and other infra ready to deploy in customer cloud accounts and fully SOC 2 compliant
Simple enough to hand to an agent
No Terraform to mess up
Your engineers should be building product, not becoming cloud consultants for every customer
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your "hustle hard" founder mentality is silently holding you back
protecting sleep consistency might be your highest-ROI activity
you can't outwork shit recovery
i use a WHOOP to track resting heart rate
the lower it is before bed, the deeper and more restorative the sleep
sleep isn't a luxury for founders, it's a competitive advantage
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YC partners told us they'd only accept us if we killed our startup
we applied to YC with a D2C edtech app
zero traction, 100% churn after 2 weeks
but in our application's other ideas section, we mentioned building an on-prem deployment platform
they said, "we'll let you in only if you build the deployment platform"
so we dropped edtech immediately
two weeks leading up to demo day, we were booked in back-to-back investor calls
sometimes your backup idea is your best one
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as AI products integrate with more data sources, enterprises will demand for more on-prem / self-hosted. kubernetes, declarative deployments, and cloud-agnostic infra are the tools that let us ship everywhere, minimize infra overhead, and deliver deployments at scale
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Building software in regulated industries is a maze of bureaucracy
Here’s what I’ve seen work:
Start with constraints, not features.
Most founders jump into feature planning.
But in healthcare, finance, defense, your real roadmap starts with the regulatory landscape.
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