@adityaxprasad Yeah, no real answer for that one. No one asked him to do that and as you’ve noticed when push meets shove posturing < actual performance.
That said, there’s a couple posts per year to maintain rep. We still want to anti sell candidates, etc. frequency will jump pre raise.
@adityaxprasad Correct. I wasn’t around then but the answer isn’t relevancy. 3-4 years ago we were raising and now we are not. When the company decides it needs more capital then you will hear about Traba again. Also fwiw the culture is also not 996 anymore given its size.
@bubbleboi@chrisbarber I'm not saying it can't; I'm saying, why would you? Twilio works, so people use it. If you make an app/service with Claude, it will likely use Twilio or a similar service. If you grow to where it's a major cost and you justifiably need to replace it, well, they made their bag.
@bubbleboi@chrisbarber short twilio? I feel like the existence of claude code will greatly benefit Twilio in the long run. Who wants to make their own Twilio/Twilio subsidiary (sendgrid, etc) replacement?
2025 was the year accurate intelligence became cheap and extremely powerful, giving engineers an Iron Man suit to do more than ever before.
2026 will be the year that AI leverage separates great engineering teams from the rest.
So how do we prioritize AI leverage at @Traba_Work?
Enter Roomba Rumble.
Roomba Rumble is our way of celebrating engineers who maximize “Roombas” — background agent–led PRs that require minimal attention but have massive impact.
Here’s some things we accomplished with Roombas in Q4:
@TanzirisHere decommissioned our legacy event handling service, identifying migration targets and methodically working through them week-over-week.
@sumeetbnsal replaced our legacy test infrastructure, cutting our CI times in half, and built Claude sub-agents to support our infrastructure.
@Solidous became the first responder for operators' feature requests. Asks that once sat in a backlog now get shipped before others on the team even see them.
@MaceoCk built a data analyst agent that generates research reports directly in Slack, turning guesswork into informed decisions.
Other side quests have spanned the gamut: root-causing and patching noisy alerts, optimizing sluggish endpoints, even a Slackbot that randomly pairs teammates across functions to keep the culture tight as we scale.
How did we celebrate them, you ask? With a turnover chain, of course.
At Traba we celebrate the engineers who choose ambitious quests and see them through. Ultimately, we’re building a culture where force-multiplying AI leverage is owned by every engineer.
If you want to apply frontier AI to the supply chains that stock your fridge, deliver your packages, and fill your prescriptions, come join Tanzir, Sumeet, Moreno, Maceo, and the rest of the team. Careers page below.
@nearcyan@eastdakota Robinhood, sports betting, and prediction markets are pretty common among younger guys and there is the appearance of high odds of winning ala "I know the industry/watch the sport/watch the news so I have alpha" vs with if you go to vegas you know you're prbly gonna lose money
@DKossnick Hello, the startup I work at is using Figma Make and it not using our design system is one problem that we've noticed that's stopping us from using it to it's full potential. Is that something that already exists or are there any plans to allow that? Thanks!
8 sleep gave me a 100 rating after the worst night of sleep in my life. The time slept isn’t even close to being accurate. I guess I gotta start wearing my Apple Watch again.