Essays by Ry Walker

Essays on AI, startups, and software engineering by Ry Walker, founder of Tembo and Astronomer.

all agents ai apis architecture

astronomer automation bottleneck build-vs-buy business-model code-review coding-agents communication competition context context-engineering coordination culture customer-development customer-success data decision-making developer-experience developer-tools devex economics engineering enterprise evaluation experience founders fundraising future go-to-market governance growth gtm human-in-the-loop incentives infrastructure integration intuition judgment knowledge-management knowledge-work kubernetes leadership learning maintenance management market marketing measurement memory moats nuance observability open-source operationalization operations outbound personal personal-agents personalization phases pitching platform platforms playbook process procurement product prototyping quality rag reasoning recommendations retention review sales security seed shipping skills software-engineering startups storytelling strategy

tembo tooling trust unit-economics workflow

Apr 24, 2026	Triggered Workflows Generate Most of the Volume Most enterprise agent value comes from background workflows, not from humans typing into a chat box. Machines do not sleep. Lean into triggered work or get out-shipped.
Apr 22, 2026	Event-Driven Agents Change What Is Possible A new tag, a new ticket, a new error. The most underappreciated capability in this wave is not generation. It is agents that fire because something happened.