I have so much respect for people who are consistently able to say no to everything except their absolute top priorities.

This addresses one of the most practically useful problems for any retrieval setup at scale

🔍 AI meets Observability! Episode 73 of o11ycast: the observability podcast features Animesh Koratana (Animesh Koratana) of PlayerZero and focuses on transforming engineering workflows with cutting-edge AI tools. Tune in now to explore the future of observability! hubs.ly/Q02Qwhn00

Your next competitor will start out not looking like your competitor

Building a startup is a privilege. Doing it with our team, our customers, and our investors is a once in a lifetime opportunity. Thank you ashu garg , Jaya Gupta and the Foundation Capital team for the confidence and the opportunity to build fearlessly. The rules for how we build

Foundation model providers like OpenAI and Anthropic have abandoned the pure infrastructure play. They're vertically integrating at unprecedented speed: OpenAI's Agent Mode, Claude Code, Deep Research. Your startup's success becomes their product roadmap. Build something

As AI flattens the cost of generation, the real moat moves upstream into understanding behavior under uncertainty. QA isn’t just “more tests,” it’s reasoning about the untestable: unknown unknowns, environmental quirks, emergent interactions. That’s the frontier worth solving.

AI coding is the definitive demonstration that the "happy path" of coding really is only about 20% of the total work to ship something of quality.

Two weeks later, and we're still buzzing from our launch party at Foundation Capital. When you put leading AI researchers, CTOs, and investors in the same room to discuss the future of software development, magic happens. The caliber of conversations—from our fireside chat to

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The root cause of the AWS outage will be something incredibly stupid. Like a config file that has been copied unmodified for 15 years looking like: expiration_date: 2025-10-22 # Infinite future

Our founder Animesh Koratana joined The Cloudcast - Cloud + AI to discuss how AI is transforming software quality. "Quality is not an action. It's a process" - and with AI writing more code than ever, we need AI to ensure that code works flawlessly. What we explored: - Why traditional testing

JSON is token‑expensive for LLMs – just like Matt Pocock frequently mentions. Meet TOON, the Token‑Oriented Object Notation. 💸 40–60% fewer tokens than JSON 📐 readable & tokenizer-aware Wrap your JSON with `encode` to save half the token cost: github.com/johannschoppli…

Building trust through technological change takes time, and last night founders Animesh Koratana (PlayerZero ) and Arjun Pillai (Docket) helped us understand why. Agents are now automating entire workflows… 100s of steps that once required human judgment. But behind every