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 29, 2026	The Organizational Context Gap Across every agent platform, one layer is universally unsolved — organizational context. Not the prompt, not the model. The institutional knowledge an agent needs to do useful work.
Apr 25, 2026	Organizational Context Is the Hardest Problem Nobody Has Solved Context management is the layer most consistently built in-house and least well served by vendors. It is not a search problem. It is a knowledge management problem.