Nick Thompson

ex-Founder #Hawkeyes #Cubs

[Temporal @temporalio]

"Temporal is the durable execution layer under a large part of Coinbase. Trading workflows, payments and payouts, settlement, regulatory flows such as GDPR deletion, travel rule checks and KYC refresh, and internal platform work such as ETL, backfills, ML-driven notifications and infrastructure provisioning all run on it.

We migrated more than 300 namespaces across more than 300 services off a custom, self-hosted Temporal deployment and onto Temporal Cloud. The custom self-hosted stack is retired. The workload mix ran from workflows finishing in seconds to workflows that stay open for days, and traffic was often spiky rather than steady."

Big thanks to @coinbase for the detailed write-up: https://t.co/qKldmjIIz5

[Maxim Fateev @mfateev]

AI models are becoming commoditized, and startups are feeling the heat. So where does the real moat live?

Come to @Techweek_ with @GoogleStartups to find out.

[Suraj Sharma @suraj_sharma14]

CANCEL your weekend plans.

You NEED to:

• Replace fragile chat loops with Temporal state machines for crash-resilient agent workflows
• Build a dynamic context assembler that strictly budgets tokens between memory, tools and docs per request
• Implement a System-One router to handle 95% of triage in milliseconds, escalating only edge cases to reasoning models
• Write a raw Model Context Protocol (MCP) server from scratch to expose your database securely to external agents
• Build trajectory grading in CI that blocks PRs if an agent's tool-call sequence deviates from the golden path
• Add an inter-agent sanitization proxy so Agent A's output can't execute a prompt injection on Agent B
• Implement a cost kill-switch that halts any agent loop if projected token spend exceeds $0.50 per query
• Build a 3-tier memory engine (Working, Episodic, Semantic) with automated eviction and compression policies
• Set up KV-cache prefix sharing at the proxy layer to slash Time-To-First-Token by 80% for identical system prompts
• Route 5% of production traffic to a new model silently, compare the trajectories and auto-generate a diff report
• Build an API-to-Browser fallback where the agent spawns a headless browser if the REST API 404s
• Automate a DPO pipeline: user thumbs-down → auto-format to preference pairs → queue a nightly LoRA fine-tune
• Implement a PII unmasking proxy that swaps sensitive data for UUIDs before the LLM sees it and restores it post-generation
• Set up a speculative decoding pipeline: local 2B model drafts tokens, cloud 70B verifies them, cutting latency 60%
• Build a 4-tier graceful degradation chain: Frontier API → Mid-tier → Local Quantized → Semantic Cache
• Add checkpointed human-in-the-loop approval gates wired directly into Slack for high-stakes agent actions
• Trace every LLM hop with OpenTelemetry-style spans capturing exact token counts, latency and tool arguments
• Fuzz your own multi-agent swarm with malformed tool outputs and context overflow to test self-healing recovery

You have way too much to do.

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[Crystal Palace F.C. @CPFC]

A home debut for our @MacronSports home sash kit tonight 🤍

@temporalio 🤝

[Nick Thompson @NickThompsonPNW]

@theqbschool of course it’s 2 that quits on a route and ends our season. You’ve shown this all year. Gotta move on. ✌️

[Nick Thompson @NickThompsonPNW]

@MrBeast Santa, the elves sent 2 left arms on this lab hybrid. Pls help!

[Nick Thompson @NickThompsonPNW]

@kobrakao @NFCNorthNewss 🤝

[Tom Osman 🐦‍⬛ @tomosman]

Enterprise grade internal tool goats @retool, just rolled out their text-to-app product.

Makes it super easy for anyone in the business to layer a useful app on top of existing data.

"Vibe-coding" lands into the enterprise.

[Nick Thompson @NickThompsonPNW]

@fried_egg_golf @usopengolf Your daily write-up and complaints will pay off one day, keep hammering that alarm

[Nick Thompson @NickThompsonPNW]

@fried_egg_golf @usopengolf with the ad volume this is barely watchable. Pls fix thx

[Nick Thompson @NickThompsonPNW]

@KyDickens only on episode 2 of @TelepathyTapes, curious if you found any link between who the kids can share a consciousness/ be telepathic with? With the first two kids it seems like their mothers are already spiritual and they first had to believe it possible for it to open up

[Ankur Nagpal @ankurnagpal]

Coming soon to @carryhq_

A direct payroll integration for @GustoHQ customers to automate contributing to their Solo 401k straight from payroll

No other provider does this

DM's open if you want beta access 👀

[Nick Thompson @NickThompsonPNW]

@LiftinStocks @stoolpresidente She only has a name because of CC

[Nick Thompson @NickThompsonPNW]

@StevieHustle

[Finch @tryfinch]

Unlock the power of employment data with Finch! In our recent webinar, @AnselParikh demonstrated how a unified employment data API can help insurance providers improve operational efficiency and increase customer satisfaction.

Check out the webinar here: https://t.co/OqvyQJC6Nj

[Jeremy Zhang @jerzzhang]

🚀 Today, we’re thrilled to announce our $40M Series B co-led by @generalcatalyst and @MenloVentures. We are doubling down on our mission to build connected and programmable Employment APIs that power the modern workforce.

[Nick Thompson @NickThompsonPNW]

Ball Striker U leading the way here. @maxhoma23 @collin_morikawa @ryenarussillo

[Austen Allred @Austen]

"They have an API, seems like a pretty simple integration."

hahahahahahahaha

[Kyle Wiggers @Kyle_L_Wiggers]

Finch raises $15M to build an API for HR systems https://t.co/uYQVrGafCD

[Nick Thompson @NickThompsonPNW]

Hey @patrick_oshag, tech/startup sales rep thinking about my next move post acquisition. I see a lot of interesting tech, and VCs get to hold 30 of these companies in a portfolio. Any advice for sales reps/ employees that only get to have one employer?