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 23, 2026	Agent Memory Is Unsolved. Workflow-Scoped Learning Is Not General-purpose agent memory is still a research problem. The opportunity is workflow-scoped learning that compounds — pick the constraint, and the memory problem stops being intractable.
Apr 20, 2026	Agent Memory Is the Defensible Layer Orchestration on top will commoditize. The context and memory layer underneath agents is the defensible enterprise infrastructure play, and nobody has won it yet.