Chase Douglas

Product engineer. Founder of (acquired by AWS, relaunched as Infra Composer). Building to help platform engineers move faster, safely.

[Chase Douglas @txase]

@mikejulian This is how he really stole from the rich to give to the poor. True story. The tights were just for show.

[Chase Douglas @txase]

@QuinnyPig I typed dreambeans in safari on my phone. It autocompleted to dreambeans .net (had to add a space to make sure it didn't link). It appears NSFW (I bailed at the age verification popup). How does Google launch an app with these kinds of branding problems?!

[Chase Douglas @txase]

@cyber_rekk Building network-layer AI sandboxing for assistants and workloads. Think MITM TLS proxy for all outbound connections, but not actually a MITM proxy via "magic sauce" :). Private engagements with pilot customers as we iron out the early stage kinks at https://t.co/wwKGosvd8X.

[Chase Douglas @txase]

@QuinnyPig @lydiahallie @AnthropicAI I've also heard usage from OTel may not match up with what's reported by AI vendors? Not sure if that's true for Anthropic when used directly. We've also seen different levels of fidelity between emitted OTel and what's in requests/responses on the wire...

[Corey Quinn @QuinnyPig]

Artificial Confidence #1: AWS gave the agents a credit card https://t.co/6Th7FRElJE

[Chase Douglas @txase]

@mikejulian Sure, but code changes quickly, too?

I think the important point is that you have a repository for these docs, and that assistants can access them. If putting them in git doesn't make sense for your processes, that's ok. Just have them somewhere organized and accessible.

[Chase Douglas @txase]

@mikejulian Why wouldn't you want to track them in the codebase, too? Even if just as a snapshot of the doc once it's been decided elsewhere?

[Heavybit @heavybit]

Announcing #DevGuild: Write-Only Code Summit. On May 7, we're bringing together 200 technical founders and infrastructure leaders for a day of talks, panels, and closed roundtables on how to build and lead in this new era. 🚨 Early bird pricing ends April 7: https://t.co/rMsffsWgKC

[Chase Douglas @txase]

@chrismunns @amazon Maybe last-mile is more energy efficient because only one truck is dispatched to your house, but to get this item to that truck it now has to travel over a much less efficient mechanism (eg flight between distribution hubs)?

That said, it's probably way more likely a logic bug.

[Mike Julian @mikejulian]

We're hiring a Head of Engineering at @DuckbillHQ.

We think the entire cloud cost management industry is solving the wrong problem. While everyone else is building tools for making bills smaller for startups, we're building a data platform for making them more predictable and less complex across an entire enterprise.

Given we're early days, this is a builder role. You'll be in the code every day and setting the pace for the team. You'll be leading the team on foundational decisions from day one.

The engineering problems are interesting. We're processing hundreds of millions of rows of billing data per customer per month. We're modeling pricing schemes and contract structures for every provider we support. The dimensionality reaches into the thousands of columns when you combine provider billing data with customer data and the datasets hit terabytes easily. The customer needs to not just query this data, but modify it too--faster than a traditional data pipeline allows.

We're ~12 people, based in SF, well-funded through revenue and our investors, and have the kind of customer list and brand awareness most seed-stage companies spend years trying to build.

Feel free to DM me. Job post and more details about our point of view are linked below.

[Chase Douglas @txase]

@mikejulian FWIW, this is how a family member of mine learned they went over their gmail limits. Expect a hard copy letter sent your house, too. It was actually useful in them realizing why they weren't getting emails from people recently.

[Mike Julian @mikejulian]

We're hiring engineers in SF.

Come do cool shit with us. https://t.co/UkRmdtwTOq

https://t.co/bMsBduiVLw

[Chase Douglas @txase]

@mikejulian @matsonj You can manually change the code, but then it’s like doing it behind the back of the agent. It won't have your change in its context, so it can easily get overwritten again when the agent makes more changes. I've found it generally better to ask it to make changes.

[Chase Douglas @txase]

@njpatel Reminds me of this post about debanking from @patio11: https://t.co/9kRDtBAios. It's more directly about fintech founders hitting issues with personal bank accounts, but might apply some to all successful founders to some extent because of a few bad apples in the past?

[Chase Douglas @txase]

@QuinnyPig @JackEllis That said, battery life has actually been pretty good for him, so there's that at least!

[Chase Douglas @txase]

@QuinnyPig @JackEllis I speak from confidence and disbelief on this point. In a prior work life I wrote the multitouch protocol for X11, and fixed many touchpad issues along the way. I'm utterly disappointed to see all that work has reverted to an unusable state in "modern" Linux :(.

[AJ Stuyvenberg @astuyve]

AWS finally talked about the Oct. 20th outage and holy shit, @QuinnyPig was right the whole time

AWS uses DNS (route53) as a database, creating a txt record to indicate which node holds the lock while it updates the public DNS records for the entire region

Total Corey Victory

[Mike Julian @mikejulian]

The day has come where we get to announce what we've been working on for the past year 😍

https://t.co/KRCliu5Lww