Ethan Batraski
@ethanjb
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Venture Capitalist, Partner @Venrock, writing about open-source infrastructure and hard engineering at https://t.co/r45vVAiEAw
San Francisco
Joined March 2009
When hiring your first 10-15 engineers, forget ‘10x engineers,’ focus on ‘engineers who give a sh*t’ - who care about building it right, think about the next 4 releases, learn to become domain experts, eager to hear user feedback, care about the business and their part in
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After an extensive search process, we are excited to share that the Board of Directors has appointed @petedejoy as CEO of Astronomer, effective immediately. As CEO, Pete will also become a member of Astronomer’s Board of Directors. Pete, an 8-year Astronomer veteran and
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Thanks to my new 24/7 friend @tembo I was able to fully finish project for the client today + implement Why page for Unlingo and fully move Screenshots functionality to v2 with new algorithm for sync. Things which was also done today for v2 but need some tests before merging: 1.
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Had a great chat with Anurag earlier today about all of his side projects and how he uses @vercel, @v0, and @tembo to ship! My initial assumption was that the biggest win would be using v0 to prototype and then Tembo’s agent to build. While that is true and an amazing workflow -
Wrote a blog on how some of my machine limitations have been overcome by using background agents at @tembo It has really upped my iteration speed.
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This is the DX we have all been wishing for from claude code... killer work @tembo team!
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Brand consistency breaks fast as codebases scale. Different apps, repos, and teams all drifting out of sync. We hit this at Gitar 😅 so we built an AI-native way to fix it. Now, I can just tell Gitar to enforce brand consistency in natural language
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For anyone leaving @NASAJPL who is interested in missile defense please reach out to me about @longwalldefense. We are developing modern missile defense systems to prevent conflict, reduce damage from ballistic missiles, and win wars. Hiring now for: - Hardware Dev.
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🔐 Introducing Astro Private Cloud! This release represents a fundamental shift in how enterprises deliver data orchestration at scale within their own infrastructure. For data platform teams managing hundreds of Airflow deployments across several teams or applications, Astro
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AI is becoming a microservices stack: many fine-tuned, specialized agents with real observability and guardrails. Step one: make fine-tuning, evaluation, and deployment fast and trustworthy. That’s @Oumi_PBC: enterprise models in hours, not months. Safer, smaller, specialized
When we started Oumi, we set out to build a better future for AI – grounded in the benefits of open source. Eight months ago, we open-sourced the most comprehensive repo for training foundation models end to end. Today, we’re building on that by enabling every developer and
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The world’s first private, dedicated network from GEO, fully operational, this is the future of connectivity for critical infrastructure and services. This is just the start! Congrats team @Astranis
Our first two satellites are now on station and fully operational over the United States. With just these two spacecraft we’re providing broadband coverage over the entire continental US, in the world’s first private, dedicated network from GEO. We deployed these satellites to
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🚀 Introducing Tembo: Your 24/7/365 On-Call Engineer - Monitors your entire stack - Detects and fixes bugs - Submits pull requests
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3/ Read on to learn how Archetype is bringing a fundamental shift in how AI perceives physical environments—moving from isolated data points to rich, contextual understanding that transforms decision-making across industries: https://t.co/aRUNID52so
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🚀 We’ve just added support for the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to SQLite Cloud! With our new MCP server integration, you can now connect your SQLite databases directly to AI models — enabling context-rich, real-time interactions between your data and language models. Check
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At SQLite Cloud we introduced a powerful new experimental feature: the Model Context Protocol (MCP) server. This service helps you connect your SQLite Cloud database to language model agents in a...
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Astranis is building a new satellite for Taiwan. 🇹🇼 With our customer, Chunghwa Telecom, we will bring Taiwan its first-ever dedicated communications satellite. Chunghwa Telecom is the largest telco in Taiwan, with a market cap of more than $30 billion USD. Independent, secure
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Want to predict what will the next great accelerator for AI in the next 5 years? Read this great expose on the leader in quantum computing, @Atom_Computing, whom with @Microsoft announced a collaboration to build the world’s most powerful quantum machine, offering a scalable
fastcompany.com
Big Tech thinks quantum computing will supercharge AI. First, it has to solve its biggest problem: scaling qubits.
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We're letting select devs in for private alpha testing. Reserve your spot: https://t.co/PBQ8hDFMEd
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Introducing HallOumi, a state-of-the-art claim-verification (hallucination detection) family of models, outperforming DeepSeek R1, OpenAI o1, Google Gemini 1.5 Pro, and Anthropic Sonnet 3.5 at only 8 billion parameters! Hallucinations are frequently cited as one of the most
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What makes this moment historic isn't just technology improvement—it's a fundamental expansion of human capability. Like software's transformation of manufacturing, AI will redefine what professional services can be, democratizing access to world-class expertise previously
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