patrick el-hage

senior platform engineer at DoorDash

[patrick el-hage @HagePat]

Lotta fun getting this live. Top of mind these days:

- template is now a "securely self-host AI infra as cheaply as possible" project
- integrating with @runpod to try finetuning some models, interested in more providers
- Still working out how I want agents/memory/skills/tasks to persist and sync across projects, agents, etc.

[patrick el-hage @HagePat]

Currently building an infra template for vibecoding: secure-by-default devcontainer with sandboxed claude code, secrets in doppler (never on disk), tailscale-only SSH with anti-lockout safeguards, push-to-deploy onto a ~€6/mo hetzner VPS via coolify, operable end-to-end from a phone

[patrick el-hage @HagePat]

@doodlestein how many contributors/teammates do you have in your repo when using this approach?

[patrick el-hage @HagePat]

@unusual_whales they should lower the qualified purchaser threshold if they actually gave a fuck about investors

[patrick el-hage @HagePat]

at DD we only have prod and sandboxes. sandboxes are ephemeral and short lived. otherwise everything is is feature flagged. this is intentional because staging and dev environments will naturally drift from prod and come with their own headaches, as opposed to building prod with test tenancy support

[patrick el-hage @HagePat]

@BayAreaREMatt @ZeBirdman smart. yeah the risk of getting dropped sketches me out. Last i checked FAIR plan enrollment is up like 30% YoY for past few years

[patrick el-hage @HagePat]

@BayAreaREMatt @ZeBirdman how useful is that website? i imagine it’s like 60% indicative of what to expect insurance wise?

[patrick el-hage @HagePat]

Currently building an infra template for vibecoding: secure-by-default devcontainer with sandboxed claude code, secrets in doppler (never on disk), tailscale-only SSH with anti-lockout safeguards, push-to-deploy onto a ~€6/mo hetzner VPS via coolify, operable end-to-end from a phone

[patrick el-hage @HagePat]

@WildMediaOnly yea wonder which ghost writer came up with these bars

[patrick el-hage @HagePat]

the flow state of agentic coding is way less satisfying-English as the primary programming language breaks the fourth wall, grounding you in tangible concepts with reasoning constantly explained, instead of solo navigating an abstract space the mind holds a matrix-like snapshot of

[patrick el-hage @HagePat]

@Polymarket I’ve ran past that treehouse many times- it’s pretty sick. Would love an invite lol

[patrick el-hage @HagePat]

@jamonholmgren Opus has been nerfed so hard. My frustration with this model has skyrocketed and it’s very irritating

[patrick el-hage @HagePat]

@ryan_prend @rohindhar OpenAI/Anthropic employees

[patrick el-hage @HagePat]

@nntaleb @erikum_zemeda Why not “throw it away” via 3rd party? It’s more of a “🖕” than abstaining

[patrick el-hage @HagePat]

@JohnAndrea999 @0xlelouch_ Most devs will end up implementing resolvers that just look like rest endpoints anyway

[patrick el-hage @HagePat]

@avg_engineer_ @0xlelouch_ In reality flexibility can be provided by exposing an additional REST-“ish” endpoint for whatever specific use case is required. Easier than maintaining a flexible, all purposeful graph

[patrick el-hage @HagePat]

- Batch attacks
- less bot traffic/Cloudflare protection
- Worse observability out the box
- no http spec semantics
- Unnecessary abstraction for most use cases
- higher learning curve vs RESTs is proven
- more client dependencies required
- More complexity
- minimal benefit given the overhead

[patrick el-hage @HagePat]

@jaredrosnerd congratulations

[patrick el-hage @HagePat]

@garrytan Yeah MCP is far less relevant now IMO. In our experience, it unnecessarily burns tokens compared to CLI. Claude's so good at handling almost anything that the benefits of a single unified API/protocol are outweighed by token cost & context limits.

[patrick el-hage @HagePat]

@X_Arcadian @unclebobmartin me too, just waiting for it to drop