Pumped to join promptfoo as an engineer. I'll be working on AI agents/evals/red teaming/security for open source + enterprise.
08.10.2025 03:44 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0@danenania.bsky.social
Developer and startup guy. Founder of plandex.ai, an open source AI coding agent CLI for real world projects. Also founded envkey.com, end-to-end encrypted secrets management. Now winding down after a 7 year run. YC W18 batch.
Pumped to join promptfoo as an engineer. I'll be working on AI agents/evals/red teaming/security for open source + enterprise.
08.10.2025 03:44 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Nice man, it really is the best feeling.
06.12.2024 17:55 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Nice yeah thatβs far better than a per-hand rake.
How much bankroll do you need to absorb the swings?
Itβs an interesting question whether weβll actually have a 100% reliable way to do this or not in a timeline where we have really strong AGI.
I guess you could always require showing up somewhere in person, but short of that?
How old is she?
06.12.2024 03:24 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Whatβs the rake? A lot of soft live games are impossible to beat long term because the rake is too high.
06.12.2024 03:18 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Yeah I wonder why that is
06.12.2024 02:18 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 3 π 0NL hold em I assume? Is there NL omaha anywhere? Itβs always PLO right?
06.12.2024 02:15 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Iβm pretty much self-taught in all those areas so I think itβs possible, but will grant itβs not the most efficient way to learn
06.12.2024 02:10 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0For sure. I think many people (myself included) default ignore anything that smells even a little bit automated, and default read/consider anything that feels authentically one to one.
06.12.2024 02:08 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Yeah I think you always get a better response with the one to one outreach.
Apart from emails which definitely work, having a Discord has been helpful to me for encouraging these kinds of convos.
Nice! I think itβs easy to feel youβre doing the right thing when talking to users. Not many devs do *that* too often π
06.12.2024 02:00 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Unless an actual goat has caused you serious bodily harm
06.12.2024 00:30 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0#buildingpublic two questions for you:
- what are you working on right now?
- from 1-10 how confident are you that itβs what you *should* be working on? i.e. that itβs the most important and impactful task on your todo list.
atproto question: this account is banned on the default bluesky server, and what does that mean exactly?
if I hypothetically wanted to see their posts (not saying I do) they can still post to a different server and then Iβd have to import or follow that other server somehow orβ¦? How does it work?
Sure! Clicking that Get Started button is an important conversion point so Iβd say itβs good to be trying to convince users it will be fun/valuable for them to proceed.
03.12.2024 11:42 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Awesome thank you!
03.12.2024 11:37 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Take it with a grain of salt but my feedback:
- why should I want to save my favorite locations? what is the benefit to me? Iβd make a tagline that focuses on that as a hook
- Iβd use a photo (or slideshow maybe) showing cool places it could help me remember. with brighter/louder design maybe
Nice so you are getting steady signups then, good stuff! π
03.12.2024 11:21 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Itβs pretty stark when you compare the two side by side. I think X only works for the big shots now. bsky is making it fun for new accounts.
03.12.2024 11:19 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Cool idea! The logos look good π
03.12.2024 11:17 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 020 waitlist signups is a solid start! Over how long a time period were the signups (if you donβt mind sharing)?
03.12.2024 11:13 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Congrats!! W18 alum here π
03.12.2024 11:09 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Hopefully someone will make it soon so I can follow it! π
03.12.2024 08:22 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Iβm in San Mateo, CA, USA
- Too expensive but a great place to live overall
- Nature here is wonderful. I β€οΈ the ocean πββοΈπ¬
- Startup VC land vibe can be too much sometimes
- Bay area homelessness is hard on the soul
#buildinpublic
where do you live and how do you like it there?
Congrats! 10k is a huge milestone π
03.12.2024 06:01 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Yep imho only makes sense to consider if you need ultra low latency and eventual consistency is ok.
For the typical app I think you just end up (badly) reimplementing postgres once you realize you need read-after-write consistency or transactions.
First rule of distributed systems isβ¦ π
Great post!
Seems like sqlite is perfect for projects that def wonβt ever need to scale horizontally.
Otherwise, still seems simpler to me to use postgres/mysql even if itβs on a single node. Similar benefits and easy to scale if needed without distributed systems headaches.
For sure. Integrating feedback into the app can also help.
Building with LLMs is a lot of fun but can also be quite frustrating when you thought youβd fixed a bug/bad output path but it turns out you just got lucky 10 times in a row and really itβs still broken. DX can be rough.