Patrick Robinson

Husband, dad of 2 boys | AI Whisperer and all things Agents and AI | Founder of and

[Patrick Robinson @onpardev]

@ibuildthecloud Containers, in the cloud. 👍🏻

[Patrick Robinson @onpardev]

@scottsauber Every time I look at historical data on points vs # of tickets on a team, points has a vastly higher variance than # of tickets.
And with AI, what benefit do we have in points if a ticket should be measured in hours instead of days/weeks?

[Zach Lloyd @zachlloydtweets]

My definition of a software factory:

A measurable, improvable cloud-based system for scaling coding agents for maximum ROI and productivity across your organization.

[Patrick Robinson @onpardev]

Shout it for the people in the back! :)

[Zach Lloyd @zachlloydtweets]

I see tweets that imply setting up a software factory can be done simply with a string of prompts tying together cloud agents. My experience working with a large number of customers is that this is false. Companies start with this approach and then regret it because it doesn’t scale.

They want resilient, improvable, low-latency factories that integrate deeply with their existing tools. They also want a high level of configurability and measurement, audit logs, and security guarantees.

In short, they want the same level of production quality for their factories as they do for their products, because they are betting on software factories as the future of how they ship those products more quickly.

[Patrick Robinson @onpardev]

@housecor Also curious if the market's response will be more to the mistake or the resignation in the coming days.

[Patrick Robinson @onpardev]

@housecor Ban all nits. 😀

[Patrick Robinson @onpardev]

@clairevo Words I live by, still to this day.

[Cory House @housecor]

> I open a PR
> Coworker uses Claude to review. It requests minor changes.
> I fix the comments and request review
> Coworker takes awhile to respond, then uses Claude to review again. It requests minor changes.

This loop has repeated for *two weeks* on a single PR.

[Patrick Robinson @onpardev]

We're trying to come up with a good name for our new puppy.
So far, the kids have said:
- Lightning McQueen
- Batman
- Scooby Doo
- Ralph
Open to others...

[Patrick Robinson @onpardev]

@burkeholland I have some catching up to do!

[Patrick Robinson @onpardev]

@owenthcarey I see what you did there. 😂

[Patrick Robinson @onpardev]

@zachlloydtweets I believe there's 2 kinds of trust, behavioral and relational. Trusting agents is behavioral, in that you can learn to trust how they will respond depending on the prompt, model, tools, etc. I can't wait to see her talk when it gets posted, and hope to make it to a live one soon!

[mark @markletree]

I recently joined @AnthropicAI to work on our platform for production agents.

I'm excited to help teams safely take on long-running tasks with thousands of agents working together.

If you're building with agents, I'd love to hear from you.

[Cory House @housecor]

Realization: Avoid personal skills. They lead to process fragmentation and wide variations in developer productivity.

Instead, I strive to share skills across the team.

Shared skills benefits:
- Solve problems using a consistent process
- We can iterate and improve our shared skills over time.
- Fosters team-wide learning
- Avoids "works on my machine"

[Patrick Robinson @onpardev]

@clairevo @suno Suno's so stinkin' good!

[Patrick Robinson @onpardev]

Some photos from Alamo Agents' first Builders' Night!
Had a blast collaborating with great people building some awesome stuff here in San Antonio!
Next event is in January!

[Patrick Robinson @onpardev]

Alamo Agents Builders Night is tonight in San Antonio. Bring a laptop, group up or go solo, and demo what you built. I'll be there the whole time to help. 6 to 7:30 PM at Zelifcam. Free.
Details and RSVP: https://t.co/ZhttN0eSm1

[Daniel Ward - daninacan @danielwarddev]

I'll be giving a ~30 minute talk tomorrow on what makes AI adoption work for engineering teams based on research and my own coaching and dev experiences. Come check it out! https://t.co/YyShHCSvKo

[DEVSA @devsatx]

This week in San Antonio:

Tue: Agent Builders Night, Alamo Agents
Wed: Confidential Computing, ACM San Antonio
Fri: Byte Night, Alamo Tech Collective
Sat: Unfiltered: Cafecito, Latinas in Tech

Details and RSVPs: https://t.co/4X6UW6OfG9

[Patrick Robinson @onpardev]

Happy to provide vibes anytime :)

[DEVSA @devsatx]

Press play and keep building
https://t.co/lpmxHiMbfy

Thanks @onpardev for the tejano lofi vibes