Patrick Douglas

Developer at @shopify. Pets, Home Renovations, Concerts, hanging out with my daughter, and spending time in the San Juan Islands.

[Patrick Douglas @patrickddouglas]

@pronounced_kyle @ExiaLabsAI ??

[Shopify Engineering @ShopifyEng]

Recently @tobi shared the philosophy behind River, our Slack-native AI agent, and how it has become a teaching workshop for all of @Shopify.

Below River lies the Aquifer. Principal Engineers @burkelibbey & Javier Moreno share the engineering story of how River came to be, and the substrate it runs on:

[Patrick Douglas @patrickddouglas]

@JoshuaSteinman @sendcutsend @K_leeeb @jordan__black @Senra_Systems @aphysicist @atomic_inc @NoramarkInc something you could provide??

[Patrick Douglas @patrickddouglas]

@gtmom @MrZachG Ugh, me hoping Montessorium was going to open a quick 2nd location in Seattle 😜

[60 Minutes @60Minutes]

Extended interview: Former Nebraska senator Ben Sasse has metastatic pancreatic cancer. He spoke with 60 Minutes' Scott Pelley about where America has been and where it could still go.

[MacKenzie Price @mackenzieprice]

https://t.co/XtlS7y0HFR

[Farhan Thawar @fnthawar]

Excellent turnout at the first Alpha School Toronto meetup

* heard from three graduates of Alpha High School Austin (been at Alpha since Gr2 or 3)
* the three women were exceptional — from publishing a paper in Nature, to writing a broadway musical to working with scientists on epigenetics and cancer
* all three were extremely well spoken and took some hard questions from the audience
* the premise is that you can crush your academics in 2hrs and then spend the remaining 4hrs on passion projects of your choosing

"My friend's ambitions in traditional school lowered every year they were there. At Alpha we were taught that we could do anything and then we achieved our passion projects with our guides!"

"When you have no homework, you have so much time to work on what you actually want to work on"

"Alpha has both high standards and high support. We teach you how to achieve big things, learn how to learn, and guide you to guide yourself"

Links
* https://t.co/j5UaWhB7qi
* https://t.co/GuKlQePL9g
* https://t.co/7FPGi6vHO1

[Brian Riley @thebrianriley]

We built Guardian Bikes into a vertically integrated factory doing $100M+ in revenue - tube lasers, robotic welding, CNC, powder coating, assembly - all under one roof in Indiana with 500,000+ sq ft of production space.

Here’s what I’ve realized: we’re sitting on one of the rarest assets in robotics and physical AI, a real, high-volume American factory with full operational control and the willingness to let you break things.

Most robotics companies are building incredible technology but struggling to find real deployment environments. Demo cells and lab setups only get you so far. You need messy, high-mix, real-world production to actually train and validate.

We have that. And we’re building an AI-native MES from the ground up with full sensor instrumentation and computer vision baked in.

So here’s an open invitation: if you’re building robotics or physical AI for manufacturing - humanoids, manipulation, autonomous mobile robots, vision systems, whatever - and you need a real factory to develop and prove your technology, let’s talk.

We’ll give you the environment. You bring the technology. We’ll build the future of American manufacturing together.

DMs open.

[Patrick Douglas @patrickddouglas]

@ScriptedAlchemy Congratulations! Welcome to the club!

[Washington Post Opinions @PostOpinions]

It's easy to be pessimistic about the future, but Christian Keil (@pronounced_kyle), a partner at @a16z, talks to @asymmetricinfo about the importance of getting people excited about the changing technologies to come.

🔗 Watch the full conversation: https://t.co/v1vrgbOtT5

[Patrick Douglas @patrickddouglas]

@E_Bruxxx Any favorite predictions?

[Patrick Douglas @patrickddouglas]

@JoshuaSteinman @ssankar Then eventually, the best at the games, unbeknownst to them, start “playing” for real. There is the plot for Ender’s Game.

[Patrick Douglas @patrickddouglas]

@eliano @alppouch Wait, you said the one on the left was AI… is the one on the right not? You actually have them in DC?!

[Aaron Slodov @aphysicist]

https://t.co/lQn2uxoV0S

[Patrick Douglas @patrickddouglas]

@2112Power @NYSE @DavidUlevitch Will this be posted online soon??

[Patrick Douglas @patrickddouglas]

@marcosluis2186 @jordihays @tbpn @johncoogan @Shopify This is the way.

[Patrick Douglas @patrickddouglas]

@hamandcheese @ExiaLabsAI ?

[Patrick Douglas @patrickddouglas]

@kaiarhodes @anatar Minor, but you may want to put dates in the mobile simulator, instead of `Invalid Date`. Incredible effort!

[Patrick Douglas @patrickddouglas]

@flowidealism @socraticexp Hoping this goes well. I'd love to see a Seattle version one day!