I don't think IDEs as they exist today are necessarily the right abstraction anymore anyway, to the extent they ever were. At least any more than a C++ IDE that was centered on assembly language as the main thing would be. I want data models, API contracts, and data flows. I don't know what the right answer is, but I think there's something coming.

AstraZeneca is doing some really interesting research in this area - cell therapies that reset the immune system to eliminate the dysfunctional cells driving autoimmune disease, and then allow a healthy immune system to rebuild (for diseases like lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, and multiple sclerosis).

Personally I'd love a curated list of a handful of tools each week with more concrete examples/deep dives (e.g. autoresearch being a recent one)

Surprised to see datadog as a regret - it is expensive but it's been enormously useful for us. Though we don't run kubernetes, so perhaps my baseline of expensive is wrong.

As I've been looking at this problem from a different angle, I wonder how much execution and planning should be coupled. Once we have specs in GitHub, for example, it feels like we can use whatever tool to execute on them.

Our AI coding workflow was a hodgepodge of scripts and ad-hoc processes, so we built this to centralize and streamline - and most importantly adapt as things change.

Some cool features so far (lots more planned):

1. One click github issue to agent working on it.

2. Ratcheting mode, where it watches CI for code review comments and build failures, and automatically fixes them.

Would love genuine feedback, bug reports, PRs, suggestions, etc.

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Purplefish is transforming the trillion-dollar talent industry with powerful AI agents that will fully automate most hiring processes end-to-end.

We are funded by 8VC, and Adam and I previously worked closely together to launch 145 companies at the venture studio Fractal Software out of a $650 million fund. Before that I was a staff software engineer at Lyft, and Adam was CRO at Wunderkind ($100m+ ARR). We've built a powerful voice agent, and are expanding into other parts of the sourcing-to-onboarding flow. We have customers, revenue is growing, and so is our team.

We're currently a team of 3 engineers in NYC (9 people total). We're working on really cool problems with multimodal AI agents (and some really not cool problems like ATS and HRIS integrations). I'm trying to build the engineering team that I would want to join, which to me means a high emphasis on agency, purpose, technical excellence, collaboration, learning and velocity. Recently A16Z mentioned us in the state of voice AI report: https://a16z.com/ai-voice-agents-2025-update/

We're building on LiveKit's agents framework, Python, and NextJS. We're having a lot of fun and having real positive impact on our customers' businesses.

If you're a great engineer let's talk: https://purplefish.com/careers

Purplefish is transforming the trillion-dollar talent industry with powerful AI agents that will fully automate most hiring processes end-to-end.

We are funded by 8VC, and Adam and I previously worked closely together to launch 145 companies at the venture studio Fractal Software out of a $650 million fund. Before that I was a staff software engineer at Lyft, and Adam was CRO at Wunderkind ($100m+ ARR). We've built a powerful voice agent, and are expanding into other parts of the sourcing-to-onboarding flow.

We're currently a team of 3 engineers in NYC (9 people total). We're working on really cool problems with multimodal AI agents (and some really not cool problems like ATS and HRIS integrations). I'm trying to build the engineering team that I would want to join, which to me means a high emphasis on agency, purpose, technical excellence, collaboration, learning and velocity. Recently A16Z mentioned us in the state of voice AI report: https://a16z.com/ai-voice-agents-2025-update/

We're building on LiveKit's agents framework and a host of other systems. We're looking for builders - people who are willing to learn and experiment and build fast.

If that's interesting, let's talk.

Purplefish is transforming the trillion-dollar talent industry with powerful AI agents that will fully automate most hiring processes end-to-end.

We are funded by 8VC, and Adam and I previously worked closely together to launch 145 companies at the venture studio Fractal Software out of a $650 million fund. Before that I was a staff software engineer at Lyft, and Adam was CRO at Wunderkind ($100m+ ARR). We've built a powerful voice agent, and are expanding into other parts of the sourcing-to-onboarding flow.

We're currently a team of 3 engineers in NYC (7 people total). We're working on really cool problems with multimodal AI agents (and some really not cool problems like ATS and HRIS integrations). I'm trying to build the engineering team that I would want to join, which to me means a high emphasis on agency, purpose, technical excellence, collaboration, learning and velocity.

We're building on LiveKit's agents framework and a host of other systems.

If that's interesting, let's talk.

Purplefish is transforming the trillion-dollar talent industry with powerful AI agents that will fully automate most hiring processes end-to-end.

We are funded by 8VC, and Adam and I previously worked closely together to launch 145 companies at the venture studio Fractal Software out of a $650 million fund. Before that I was a staff software engineer at Lyft, and Adam was CRO at Wonderkind ($100m+ ARR). It's early days, but we have a deep bench of design partners lined up that we are going to be onboarding starting in the coming weeks.

We're building a small and world-class team of technical people in-person in NYC. We're working on really cool problems with multimodal AI agents (and some really not cool problems like ATS and HRIS integrations). I'm trying to build the engineering team that I would want to join, which to me means a high emphasis on agency, purpose, technical excellence, collaboration, learning and velocity.

If that's interesting, let's talk.