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 25, 2026	Always Too Early, Never Wrong Serial entrepreneurs show up before the wave forms. Being early looks identical to being wrong — right up until the moment it does not.
Apr 18, 2026	Every Obvious AI Idea Gets Commoditized in Weeks The window between novel agent product and commoditized feature has compressed from years to weeks. Founders who pivot fast lose. Founders who stay in a hard problem compound.