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 30, 2026	The Framework Cannot Be the Product Frameworks get commoditized, forked, or absorbed by model providers. The durable revenue layer is the indispensable infrastructure piece that gets harder as the ecosystem matures.
Apr 27, 2026	The Framework Trap LangChain pivoted to LangSmith. E2B sells the sandbox. The agent harness is not the product — it is the thing you give away. Monetization lives in the infrastructure underneath.