User Experience Is No Longer Just for Users
As AI agents become capable collaborators, modern software increasingly needs to be legible to both humans and agents.
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Software engineer and CTO.
I'm Stan, a Y Combinator founder and CTO at Taskade (S19), where we're building AI-powered productivity and collaboration tools. I specialize in AI, web development, and creating tools that help people work smarter. Here I write about software architecture, AI engineering, and product building.
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A look at how coding agents reveal a different abstraction for RAG: constructing context through navigation, iteration, and tool use.
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Announcing @taskade/temporal-parser
@taskade/temporal-parser brings a real lexer and parser to ISO 8601, RFC 3339, and IXDTF in TypeScript.
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Prevent H12 and H15 errors when deploying Socket.IO on Heroku
Heroku drops WebSocket connections idle for 55 seconds, throwing H15 idle-connection and H12 request-timeout errors. Here's the exact Socket.IO pingInterval/pingTimeout fix.
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Satya Nadella argues for AI ecosystems where firms own compounding learning loops instead of ceding value to a few frontier models.
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A frontier without an ecosystem is not stableThe Power of Small Habits
A thoughtful piece on how tiny changes compound into significant results
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