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

May 1, 2026	Agents Are About to Break Out of Engineering Non-engineering agents are easier to build but harder to contextualize. The organizational knowledge layer — not the execution layer — is the real unsolved problem.
Apr 19, 2026	Automating Knowledge Work Is Software Engineering Automating your GTM motion, vendor onboarding, or SKU rationalization is software engineering. The end user being internal does not change the discipline required.