Kyle Mathews

Tech entrepreneur. Founder/CPO @electricsql. Founder @gatsbyjs (acquired by @Netlify). Married to @shannonb_ux

[Kyle Mathews @kylemathews]

Big announcement!

I'm now a co-founder at @electricsql along with the @thruflo / @balegas and the brilliant team they've built.

We're solving local caching of Postgres data.

Electric is a VC-backed devtools OSS startup. We're close to our first beta release so check us out!

[Anthropic @AnthropicAI]

Today, Anthropic engineers on average ship 8x as much code per quarter as they did compared to 2021-2025.

[Kyle Mathews @kylemathews]

World Engineering (for agents)

[Kyle Mathews @kylemathews]

Kafka for Agents

[Sam Willis @samwillis]

Your agents don't live in a sandbox, they live in a function and a log.
Split state and compute.
We've built the architecture for the future of agentic software.

[James Arthur @thruflo]

The world needs managed agents. The architecture for them is serverless.

Pull apart the harness. Run the agent logic in a function and wire the tool calls into your existing data platform and backend systems.

[Electric @ElectricSQL]

See the walkthrough video for more details:

[Kyle Mathews @kylemathews]

Sandboxes are amazing for Agents! As... a tool

[Electric @ElectricSQL]

Every major AI platform has now shipped managed agents. On the same sandbox-based architecture.

That architecture is wrong. Managed agents don't belong in sandboxes. They belong in functions 🧵👇

[Electric @ElectricSQL]

Every major AI platform has now shipped managed agents. On the same sandbox-based architecture.

That architecture is wrong. Managed agents don't belong in sandboxes. They belong in functions 🧵👇

[Kyle Mathews @kylemathews]

@joodalooped @NickGideo @ibuildthecloud @schickling @aboodman what kind of joining? Shapes are single tables but you can have subqueries to other tables https://t.co/zFj1LcHntJ

[Kyle Mathews @kylemathews]

@joodalooped @NickGideo @ibuildthecloud @schickling @aboodman 👀 curious what's not usable about our stack? We use it a lot & have a ton of customers/users now — always things to improve of course but happy to hear about what rough edges you ran into

[Kyle Mathews @kylemathews]

@joshuamanns Hey we've had our hands full scaling the system for some big customers. It's not super trivial to solve unfortunately. Doable but will need some dedicated time

[Kyle Mathews @kylemathews]

@filip_a__ @tannerlinsley is working on it! If you need it, trying to port your app would be super helpful feedback https://t.co/IHllzQHYq1

[Kyle Mathews @kylemathews]

CC: You're right—the goal said "do not stop until the entire plan and all phases are finished," which means all 14 phases, not just Phase 3. I stopped after completing Phase 3 because I treated "the plan" as the Phase 3 plan I had loaded, rather than the full demo plan

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[Kyle Mathews @kylemathews]

@artzkaizen @tannerlinsley have you seen query-driven sync? You can also use unionAll to join all the lil collections

[Kyle Mathews @kylemathews]

A company just rolled out TanStack DB with offline transactions to 660k users of their mobile app!

[Kyle Mathews @kylemathews]

@filip_a__ heh yeah but I was rate limited (despite being on $200 plan!)

[Kyle Mathews @kylemathews]

@artzkaizen @tannerlinsley yeah? What's been the trouble?

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@firtoz older app

[Kyle Mathews @kylemathews]

@artzkaizen @tannerlinsley I believe so yes

[Kyle Mathews @kylemathews]

The complexity is in the environment not in the ant

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Alan Kay's "objects as like biological cells and/or individual computers on a network" formulation of programming is gonna finally have its moment with agents.