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Rory Bain
Product Engineer

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DevEx matters for coding agents, too

DevEx matters for coding agents, too

When AI can scaffold out entire features in seconds and you have multiple agents all working in parallel on different tasks, a ninety-second feedback loop kills your flow state completely. We've recently invested in dramatically speeding up our developer feedback cycles, cutting some by 95% to address this. In this post we’ll share what that journey looked like, why we did it and what it taught us about building for the AI era.

Rory BainRory Bain
December 19, 2025
How we're shipping faster with Claude Code and Git Worktrees

How we're shipping faster with Claude Code and Git Worktrees

Learn how we accelerated development with Claude Code and Git Worktrees - a powerful combination that enables parallel AI-assisted coding, streamlined workflows, and faster feature delivery.

Rory BainRory Bain
June 27, 2025
Building On-call: Building a multi-platform on-call mobile app

Building On-call: Building a multi-platform on-call mobile app

What does it take to build a greenfield mobile app in 2024? When we launched On-call earlier this year, we had to find out.

Rory BainRory Bain
July 15, 2024
We used GPT-4 during a hackathon—here's what we learned

We used GPT-4 during a hackathon—here's what we learned

We learned a lot about using OpenAI and which things to keep an eye on to decide when it’s worth revisiting.

Rory BainRory Bain
July 25, 2023
Battling database performance

Battling database performance

Earlier this year, we experienced intermittent timeouts in our application — here’s how we tried to address the underlying issue over the next two weeks.

Rory BainRory Bain
April 20, 2023
Game Day: Stress-testing our response systems and processes

Game Day: Stress-testing our response systems and processes

Improving the way we respond to larger, more complex incidents.

Rory BainRory Bain
February 27, 2023

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