Chase Douglas

@cyber_rekk Building network-layer AI sandboxing for assistants and workloads. Think MITM TLS proxy for all outbound connections, but not actually a MITM proxy via "magic sauce" :). Private engagements with pilot customers as we iron out the early stage kinks at archodex.com.

i barely hear about cyberecurty startups whats going on?

@QuinnyPig @lydiahallie @AnthropicAI I've also heard usage from OTel may not match up with what's reported by AI vendors? Not sure if that's true for Anthropic when used directly. We've also seen different levels of fidelity between emitted OTel and what's in requests/responses on the wire...

@lydiahallie @AnthropicAI Thanks for the answer, such as it is. For context, I’ve built my career on cloud pricing, I’m giving a talk about OTEL as the closing O11ycon keynote next week, and my first language is sarcasm—so please take this in the spirit in which it’s intended:

Mike is not joking. I too have gone on a safari looking for this. Several of us are just not there at all. I give up: who do I talk to at @AnthropicAI about this? Because I may be a confused idiot, but I’m rarely the only one. Halp.

Artificial Confidence #1: AWS gave the agents a credit card open.substack.com/pub/artificial…

@mikejulian Sure, but code changes quickly, too? I think the important point is that you have a repository for these docs, and that assistants can access them. If putting them in git doesn't make sense for your processes, that's ok. Just have them somewhere organized and accessible.

@txase Mainly because things change so quickly and get out of date quickly

What are folks doing for non-public technical documentation storage these days? We store internal technical docs in Notion (eg, architectural design docs), but I'd love to make those easier for AI tools (eg, Cursor, Claude Code) to work with and Notion feels like the wrong place

@mikejulian Why wouldn't you want to track them in the codebase, too? Even if just as a snapshot of the doc once it's been decided elsewhere?

@txase Given how frequently PRDs are modified and how heavily they are discussed, git and a PR-centric workflow feels wrong for those to me, but maybe that's just me?

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@chrismunns @amazon Maybe last-mile is more energy efficient because only one truck is dispatched to your house, but to get this item to that truck it now has to travel over a much less efficient mechanism (eg flight between distribution hubs)? That said, it's probably way more likely a logic bug.

Why wouldn’t something arriving with an upcoming delivery not be the lowest carbon option? @amazon

We're hiring a Head of Engineering at @DuckbillHQ. We think the entire cloud cost management industry is solving the wrong problem. While everyone else is building tools for making bills smaller for startups, we're building a data platform for making them more predictable and less complex across an entire enterprise. Given we're early days, this is a builder role. You'll be in the code every day and setting the pace for the team. You'll be leading the team on foundational decisions from day one. The engineering problems are interesting. We're processing hundreds of millions of rows of billing data per customer per month. We're modeling pricing schemes and contract structures for every provider we support. The dimensionality reaches into the thousands of columns when you combine provider billing data with customer data and the datasets hit terabytes easily. The customer needs to not just query this data, but modify it too--faster than a traditional data pipeline allows. We're ~12 people, based in SF, well-funded through revenue and our investors, and have the kind of customer list and brand awareness most seed-stage companies spend years trying to build. Feel free to DM me. Job post and more details about our point of view are linked below.

@mikejulian FWIW, this is how a family member of mine learned they went over their gmail limits. Expect a hard copy letter sent your house, too. It was actually useful in them realizing why they weren't getting emails from people recently.

I mean, maybe consider that you only ever send me things I don’t care about?

We're hiring engineers in SF. Come do cool shit with us. duckbillhq.com/careers/ geekwire.com/2026/cloud-and…

@mikejulian @matsonj You can manually change the code, but then it’s like doing it behind the back of the agent. It won't have your change in its context, so it can easily get overwritten again when the agent makes more changes. I've found it generally better to ask it to make changes.

@matsonj So is *every* code change through Claude Code, then? You're not doing any manual changes?

For those who are 100% on Claude Code, what role does an IDE (eg, VS Code, Cursor, etc) play in your workflow, if any? Having trouble wrapping my head around this.

@njpatel Reminds me of this post about debanking from @patio11: bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/debank…. It's more directly about fintech founders hitting issues with personal bank accounts, but might apply some to all successful founders to some extent because of a few bad apples in the past?

There seems to have been a gradual change to how banking works which has now become a strange feeling. Over the last few years, the amount of times you are asked for the reason you are moving money, the number of transfers held up for weird reasons, the work you're asked to do to triple verify the receiver, the kind of questions you're asked etc. It's all very odd and makes you feel like you don't actually have access to your money if you need it. A random guy you'll never meet gate-keeps your money for you and can delay proceedings to their desire.

@QuinnyPig @JackEllis That said, battery life has actually been pretty good for him, so there's that at least!

@QuinnyPig @JackEllis I speak from confidence and disbelief on this point. In a prior work life I wrote the multitouch protocol for X11, and fixed many touchpad issues along the way. I'm utterly disappointed to see all that work has reverted to an unusable state in "modern" Linux :(.

How did this pass QA?!

AWS finally talked about the Oct. 20th outage and holy shit, @QuinnyPig was right the whole time AWS uses DNS (route53) as a database, creating a txt record to indicate which node holds the lock while it updates the public DNS records for the entire region Total Corey Victory

The day has come where we get to announce what we've been working on for the past year 😍 duckbillhq.com/blog/skyway-cl…

For anyone at @KubeCon_ next week, we'll be hosting beers on the 11th. Find the details at redmonk.com/event/redmonk-…, and we hope to see you there!

I'm having the Away Days Mr. Ordinary English Bitter, and Ben's having the @GreatNotionPDX Devil's Night Schwarzbier.

Just me and my friend Ben Ford (of Puppet fame) rotating secrets on a Friday afternoon over beers @TheBeermongers in Portland. Which we can do, cause archodex.com makes sure we know everywhere our secrets are used so we don't cause outages.