Ed Stephinson
@edjs.dev
Engineer, floundering fool etc. I play with LLMs for work.
Co-founder of @sailhouse.dev, ex @netlify.com
Co-founder of @sailhouse.dev, ex @netlify.com
Reposted by Ed Stephinson
The best engineers blur the lines between frontend, backend, and infrastructure. With AI systems, this mindset is essential. LLMs introduce new failure modes. You need structured retries and feedback loops that explain behaviour. Ship fast, own outcomes. sailhouse.dev/blog/enginee...
The Engineering Shift AI Demands
AI changes the development stack but not the mission. Product engineers who blur the lines between frontend, backend, and infrastructure are essential for building resilient AI systems.
sailhouse.dev
July 14, 2025 at 6:42 PM
The best engineers blur the lines between frontend, backend, and infrastructure. With AI systems, this mindset is essential. LLMs introduce new failure modes. You need structured retries and feedback loops that explain behaviour. Ship fast, own outcomes. sailhouse.dev/blog/enginee...
Reposted by Ed Stephinson
The workflow is dead. Long live the agent! 🤖
We're shackling intelligent AI agents to 20-year-old orchestrators. The breakthrough: workflow IS the code. Agents should decide their own state transitions, not wait for permission. Event-driven > orchestrated
sailhouse.dev/blog/autonom...
#AI #Agents
We're shackling intelligent AI agents to 20-year-old orchestrators. The breakthrough: workflow IS the code. Agents should decide their own state transitions, not wait for permission. Event-driven > orchestrated
sailhouse.dev/blog/autonom...
#AI #Agents
The Autonomous Software Revolution
Discover why workflow orchestrators are choking AI development and how event-driven autonomous agents can reshape the $50B market revolution.
sailhouse.dev
July 4, 2025 at 3:57 PM
The workflow is dead. Long live the agent! 🤖
We're shackling intelligent AI agents to 20-year-old orchestrators. The breakthrough: workflow IS the code. Agents should decide their own state transitions, not wait for permission. Event-driven > orchestrated
sailhouse.dev/blog/autonom...
#AI #Agents
We're shackling intelligent AI agents to 20-year-old orchestrators. The breakthrough: workflow IS the code. Agents should decide their own state transitions, not wait for permission. Event-driven > orchestrated
sailhouse.dev/blog/autonom...
#AI #Agents
Reposted by Ed Stephinson
Not every event-based system needs a streaming platform.
Kafka’s great if you’ve got a team.
Most of us? We just want something that works, retries, and doesn’t explode in prod. What do you use?
Kafka’s great if you’ve got a team.
Most of us? We just want something that works, retries, and doesn’t explode in prod. What do you use?
June 6, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Not every event-based system needs a streaming platform.
Kafka’s great if you’ve got a team.
Most of us? We just want something that works, retries, and doesn’t explode in prod. What do you use?
Kafka’s great if you’ve got a team.
Most of us? We just want something that works, retries, and doesn’t explode in prod. What do you use?
I literally remember a moment 12 years ago when I realised that computers understanding semantics was the breakthrough moment, and here we are.
May 30, 2025 at 10:41 PM
I literally remember a moment 12 years ago when I realised that computers understanding semantics was the breakthrough moment, and here we are.
I've spent the past 2 evenings building full-stack deploy previews for @sailhouse.dev, from @planetscale.com dev branches -> @fly.io application with a full multi-node deployment.
I am now dead inside, but god is it cool.
I am now dead inside, but god is it cool.
May 7, 2025 at 6:44 PM
I've spent the past 2 evenings building full-stack deploy previews for @sailhouse.dev, from @planetscale.com dev branches -> @fly.io application with a full multi-node deployment.
I am now dead inside, but god is it cool.
I am now dead inside, but god is it cool.
Reposted by Ed Stephinson
This can happen with any AI agent… or human developer!
A BIG difference w AI agents: they will write more code, faster than before, and ship a LOT more code to prod! So ship more bugs as well.
Software engineers (not AI engineers) will build o11y solutions to solve for this!
A BIG difference w AI agents: they will write more code, faster than before, and ship a LOT more code to prod! So ship more bugs as well.
Software engineers (not AI engineers) will build o11y solutions to solve for this!
May 3, 2025 at 3:11 PM
This can happen with any AI agent… or human developer!
A BIG difference w AI agents: they will write more code, faster than before, and ship a LOT more code to prod! So ship more bugs as well.
Software engineers (not AI engineers) will build o11y solutions to solve for this!
A BIG difference w AI agents: they will write more code, faster than before, and ship a LOT more code to prod! So ship more bugs as well.
Software engineers (not AI engineers) will build o11y solutions to solve for this!
Feel like Mark Baum in the big short seeing a prompt builder in my mouse software.
April 28, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Feel like Mark Baum in the big short seeing a prompt builder in my mouse software.
They've discovered slack emojis can be HDR-ified at work and my eyeballs fucking hate it
April 25, 2025 at 10:36 AM
They've discovered slack emojis can be HDR-ified at work and my eyeballs fucking hate it
Dog had a good day at daycare
April 3, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Dog had a good day at daycare
One of the best roles of my career - incredibly proud to see it turn 10
10 years of innovation.
10 years of community.
10 years of transforming the web.
Today, Netlify turns 10! 🥳
Thank you for being part of this incredible journey.
Watch CEO @biilmann.blog reflect on a decade of building a better web, together:
10 years of community.
10 years of transforming the web.
Today, Netlify turns 10! 🥳
Thank you for being part of this incredible journey.
Watch CEO @biilmann.blog reflect on a decade of building a better web, together:
Celebrating a decade of community-driven innovation with Netlify
YouTube video by Netlify
youtu.be
March 31, 2025 at 4:56 PM
One of the best roles of my career - incredibly proud to see it turn 10
Reposted by Ed Stephinson
10 years of innovation.
10 years of community.
10 years of transforming the web.
Today, Netlify turns 10! 🥳
Thank you for being part of this incredible journey.
Watch CEO @biilmann.blog reflect on a decade of building a better web, together:
10 years of community.
10 years of transforming the web.
Today, Netlify turns 10! 🥳
Thank you for being part of this incredible journey.
Watch CEO @biilmann.blog reflect on a decade of building a better web, together:
Celebrating a decade of community-driven innovation with Netlify
YouTube video by Netlify
youtu.be
March 31, 2025 at 4:43 PM
10 years of innovation.
10 years of community.
10 years of transforming the web.
Today, Netlify turns 10! 🥳
Thank you for being part of this incredible journey.
Watch CEO @biilmann.blog reflect on a decade of building a better web, together:
10 years of community.
10 years of transforming the web.
Today, Netlify turns 10! 🥳
Thank you for being part of this incredible journey.
Watch CEO @biilmann.blog reflect on a decade of building a better web, together:
Reposted by Ed Stephinson
We built an open-source email confirmation system! It uses event-driven architecture via @sailhouse.dev , runs on @netlify.com Functions, sends emails via @resend.com, & requires zero database setup.
Classic "I'll save time in the long run" developer move, right? 🙃
sailhouse.dev/blog/email-c...
Classic "I'll save time in the long run" developer move, right? 🙃
sailhouse.dev/blog/email-c...
Building an Email Confirmation Flow with Sailhouse, Netlify, and Resend
A ready-to-deploy, event-driven email confirmation system built with Sailhouse, Netlify, and Resend that you can set up in minutes and customize to your needs.
sailhouse.dev
March 28, 2025 at 3:25 PM
We built an open-source email confirmation system! It uses event-driven architecture via @sailhouse.dev , runs on @netlify.com Functions, sends emails via @resend.com, & requires zero database setup.
Classic "I'll save time in the long run" developer move, right? 🙃
sailhouse.dev/blog/email-c...
Classic "I'll save time in the long run" developer move, right? 🙃
sailhouse.dev/blog/email-c...
Reposted by Ed Stephinson
Warm referrals ("I worked with X, they are amazing, we should see if they would be interested in this job we're recruiting for") seem like they will become a lot more relevant as inbound applications become far, far, far more noisy...
March 24, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Warm referrals ("I worked with X, they are amazing, we should see if they would be interested in this job we're recruiting for") seem like they will become a lot more relevant as inbound applications become far, far, far more noisy...
Reposted by Ed Stephinson
I'm sorry, wut?
two weeks?! this isn't an open source project run by unpaid volunteers.
two weeks?! this isn't an open source project run by unpaid volunteers.
March 22, 2025 at 7:12 PM
I'm sorry, wut?
two weeks?! this isn't an open source project run by unpaid volunteers.
two weeks?! this isn't an open source project run by unpaid volunteers.
Lovely day to turn older
March 20, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Lovely day to turn older
Reposted by Ed Stephinson
Really doing an awful lot to discourage hiring at this point.
UK’s lowest-income workers to become eligible for sick pay
About 1.3mn Britons to benefit from legislative plan set to be laid out by ministers
www.ft.com
March 3, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Really doing an awful lot to discourage hiring at this point.
Reposted by Ed Stephinson
Ed is not a very serious person. his big entrepreneurial stuff seems to be mailing lists (we copied mailchimp!) and turnkey website dev (hi squarespace!) and works for a pagerduty clone to earn his bread.
his personal website/blog has one entry about failure and nothing else
his personal website/blog has one entry about failure and nothing else
February 23, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Ed is not a very serious person. his big entrepreneurial stuff seems to be mailing lists (we copied mailchimp!) and turnkey website dev (hi squarespace!) and works for a pagerduty clone to earn his bread.
his personal website/blog has one entry about failure and nothing else
his personal website/blog has one entry about failure and nothing else
Saying LLMs can be a good thing, on this blessed site, can lead to accusations of:
- Not having a real job (true)
- Being a cunt (I’m sure someone agrees)
- Being a Nazi rapist apologist (not true)
- General accusations of being a moron (very very true)
- Not having a real job (true)
- Being a cunt (I’m sure someone agrees)
- Being a Nazi rapist apologist (not true)
- General accusations of being a moron (very very true)
February 23, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Saying LLMs can be a good thing, on this blessed site, can lead to accusations of:
- Not having a real job (true)
- Being a cunt (I’m sure someone agrees)
- Being a Nazi rapist apologist (not true)
- General accusations of being a moron (very very true)
- Not having a real job (true)
- Being a cunt (I’m sure someone agrees)
- Being a Nazi rapist apologist (not true)
- General accusations of being a moron (very very true)
Wonder if react-based ATC management has the same level of discourse around routers as the rest of the ecosystem.
A team from SpaceX is being brought in to overhaul FAA’s air traffic control system
A team from SpaceX is being brought in to overhaul FAA’s air traffic control system
Staff shortages are about to get even worse.
buff.ly
February 17, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Wonder if react-based ATC management has the same level of discourse around routers as the rest of the ecosystem.
Reposted by Ed Stephinson
"Is this because of Opus Dei - DEI's right there in their name?"
February 11, 2025 at 12:35 PM
"Is this because of Opus Dei - DEI's right there in their name?"
Reposted by Ed Stephinson
I've known (and continue to work with) some transgender people who are outstanding in their fields. In the medical industry, in manufacturing (chemical and engineering), in defense, intelligence, politics... any one of them exemplifies the best of what anyone should consider American.
On day one Trump's EO said we were harmful to kids. On day two, it said we were dishonorable and disloyal. On day three, it said we were unAmerican.
Transgender people have been a part of this country for centuries.
We are not going anywhere.
Do not comply with these EOs, they are not law.
Transgender people have been a part of this country for centuries.
We are not going anywhere.
Do not comply with these EOs, they are not law.
January 29, 2025 at 11:38 PM
I've known (and continue to work with) some transgender people who are outstanding in their fields. In the medical industry, in manufacturing (chemical and engineering), in defense, intelligence, politics... any one of them exemplifies the best of what anyone should consider American.
Boris back by the year end?
EXCL: More than half a dozen major ex-Tory donors attended Reform fundraiser last night, which swept >£1m
The group included tycoons Bassim Haidar & Mohamed Amersi, who paid £25k a ticket
Amersi said Tories are ‘losing momentum’ & Kemi Badenoch has ‘no policies, no outreach, no connectivity’
The group included tycoons Bassim Haidar & Mohamed Amersi, who paid £25k a ticket
Amersi said Tories are ‘losing momentum’ & Kemi Badenoch has ‘no policies, no outreach, no connectivity’
January 29, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Boris back by the year end?
I’d be very happy to have BYOK GPT-4o/Claude alt text generation for images on Bluesky
January 27, 2025 at 3:11 PM
I’d be very happy to have BYOK GPT-4o/Claude alt text generation for images on Bluesky