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 28, 2026	You Need a Directory of Agents Companies have directories of employees. They have no equivalent for the agents doing real work. Every agent should be inspectable, auditable, and correctable.
Apr 25, 2026	The Coordination Crisis AI Tooling Created When everyone can build, nobody knows what has already been built. Five teams independently spin up the same Slack bot, and the duplication goes undetected for months.
Apr 23, 2026	When Building Is Cheap, Coordination Breaks Three brand teams in the same Fortune 50 build the same aggregator without talking. AI lowered the cost of building, and the budget process that used to coordinate everyone disappeared with it.