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Rutledge··on Instead of banning AI, I made a classroom contract with my students
Would love to see the 'contract'
Rutledge··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2026)
Scorecard AI | Founding Engineer | San Francisco (Onsite) | Full-Time | https://scorecard.io

Scorecard builds simulation environments and reward models that frontier AI labs and enterprises use to train and evaluate their agents. Same discipline that made self-driving cars work, applied to LLM-based agents.

Our founding team built simulation infrastructure at Waymo, SpaceX, and Uber ATG. I'm Dare, the CEO and scaled Waymo's simulation org to 200+ engineers. We're ~7 people, 7-figure revenue, $3.75M seed led by Kindred Ventures with angels from OpenAI, Apple, Waymo, Uber, Perplexity, and Meta.

Founding Engineer ($175K-$280K + strong equity). Primarily backend. You'll own technical domains end-to-end. We use agentic tooling (Claude Code) heavily. Moving fast and working customers matters more than deep expertise in any one language.

Stack: TypeScript, Node.js, Next.js, PostgreSQL, ClickHouse, Temporal, GCP.

jobs@scorecard.io

Rutledge··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2026)
Scorecard | Founding Engineers & GTM | San Francisco | ONSITE | Full-time | scorecard.io

Scorecard is the simulation platform for self-improving AI agents. We help teams encode expert judgment into reward models and run 10,000s of scenarios in minutes instead of reviewing 10s of production cases over weeks.

Our team built simulation systems at Waymo, Uber ATG, and SpaceX. Same discipline, applied to AI agents. Backed by Kindred Ventures and Neo, with multi-billion dollar customers.

Founding Software Engineer ($175k-$250k + equity)

Build infrastructure for large-scale agent simulation, reward model pipelines, and scenario generation. Ship fast with a low-ego team.

Stack: TypeScript, React, Node.js, Postgres. Bonus: LLM/RL experience, founder background.

https://www.scorecard.io/careers/software-engineer

Founding GTM Lead

Own demos, sales playbook, and positioning for AI teams building frontier agents. 3+ years early-stage sales/product marketing. AI/developer tools experience a plus.

https://www.scorecard.io/careers/founding-gtm

In-person in SoMa. Full benefits, daily lunch, unlimited PTO.

Apply: jobs [at] scorecard.io (mention HN)

Rutledge··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2025)
Scorecard | Founding Engineer, Founding UX Designer, Founding GTM | SF, CA ONSITE | Full-time

Scorecard is building the leading platform for testing, evaluating, and monitoring AI applications. We help teams ship reliable AI products faster—from prototype to production. Our customers include developers and enterprises building with LLMs who need confidence their AI agents perform as expected.

We recently raised $3.75M in seed funding from Kindred Ventures, Neo, and angels from OpenAI, Google, and Meta: https://www.businessinsider.com/scorecard-raises-millions-ki...

See how we're helping enterprises like Thomson Reuters ensure their AI agents are production-ready: https://www.thomsonreuters.com/en-us/posts/innovation/from-t...

Tech Stack: Full TypeScript w/Next.js, Express, React, PostgreSQL, and agents like Claude Code/Gemini review.

We're an early-stage, fast-growing team tackling the most pressing problems in the AI reliability space. If you're excited about being a founding team member at a company defining how the industry evaluates and optimizes AI systems, we'd love to hear from you.

Open Roles:

- Founding Software Engineer: Build the core platform that helps developers test and evaluate AI agents at scale - Founding UX Designer: Design intuitive experiences that make complex AI evaluation accessible to all developers - Founding GTM: Help define and execute our go-to-market strategy as we scale with customers

Learn more and apply: jobs@scorecard.io w/ subject 'HN'

Rutledge··on Claude Code 2.0
I call them 'CLI agents'!
Rutledge··on Gemini CLI: your open-source AI agent
Here's the image from Wayback: https://web.archive.org/web/20250625051706/https://blog.goog...

The biggest diffs from Claude code (the current champion): 1. Generous free tier (60 RPM!) 2. Open Source Apache (Standard after OAI Codex did the same)

Rutledge··on First MCP Server for Eval
Aannnnndd X is down x) Here's the LI: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/scorecard-ai_introducing-scor...
Rutledge··on First MCP Server for Eval
Hi HN- we're excited to launch the first remote MCP server for claude.ai and cursor for LLM evaluation. Would love your thoughts and feedback :)
Rutledge··on Cisco Launches Agntcy AI Framework
Here's the repo: https://github.com/agntcy and docs: https://docs.agntcy.org/pages/abstract.html
Rutledge··on Agenteval.org: An Open-Source Benchmarking Initiative for AI Agent Evaluation
This initiative is designed to be community-driven, so we're looking forward to your feedback on what agent benchmarking needs exist in your domains. While starting with legal AI, we plan to expand across industries where benchmarks for AI agents evaluation are needed.
Rutledge··on Vercel Fluid Compute
Yes quite helpful- thanks for explaining and will try it out!
Rutledge··on Vercel Fluid Compute
The concurrent request handling seems great for our AI eval workloads, where we're waiting for LLM API calls and DB operations but curious how Vercel handles potential noisy neighbor issues when one request consumes excessive CPU/memory?

Disclosure: CEO of Scorecard- AI eval platform, current Vercel customer. Intrigued since most of our time serverless time is spent waiting for model responses, but cautious about 'magic' solutions.

Rutledge··on Grammarly Is Acquiring Coda
This is great :) and pretty impressive that it was possible in coda!
Rutledge··on Grammarly Is Acquiring Coda
Post from the Coda blog: https://coda.io/blog/about-coda/grammarly-acquires-coda
Rutledge··on Grammarly Is Acquiring Coda
New chapter in the AI arms race
Rutledge··on OpenAI Feather
+1 on data labeling platform: https://web.archive.org/web/20230403164757/https://feather.o...

It's been around and used since 2022. It's an site for SME to write code data: https://www.semafor.com/article/01/27/2023/openai-has-hired-...

Rutledge··on ChatGPT Launches Personalization
ChatGPT now learns about users with a RAG system. This is the first step towards an OpenAI assistant: https://help.openai.com/en/articles/8590148-memory-in-chatgp...
Rutledge··on FAA approves hundreds more engines to use unleaded avgas
I'm excited about this push. One interesting note is how this entire project has been 'in flight' for 30+ years almost cancelled with PAFI and then with then with recent pressure to close airports (namely KRHV) with leaded fuel as the lighting rod the FAA has now accelerated to “progress at the speed of light.”

"He added that the accelerated commitment reflects new urgency arising from the FAA’s awareness that some local governments are taking action to ban leaded avgas from being used at airports in their jurisdictions.

Local governments threats driving innovation at the federal level :P

Rutledge··on Waymo has raised $3B in the last two months
The round is $3B, it is the first and only round Waymo has raised (open since March): https://blog.waymo.com/2020/05/t-rowe-price-perry-creek-capi...
Rutledge··on Waymo has raised $3B in the last two months
Also on the blog (WSJ article has more details): https://blog.waymo.com/2020/03/waymo-raises-first-external-i...
Rutledge··on Udacity spins out its self-driving car business as Voyage
Hi Oliver, congrats on the launch!

With a self-driving taxi what kind of challenges and opportunities do you see in terms of the passenger's request and ride experience (i.e. in the BI article there's a reference to using voice controls for music/navigation)

Rutledge··on Verizon Reduces Yahoo Deal Price by $250 Million in Revised Deal
Hi Tony- My name is Darius, PM on the Flurry team. Spoke with the Flickr team and they will follow up.
Rutledge··on Iranian Comfort Food
Where in the south bay?

I've only been a couple places and found Lavash to stronger.

Rutledge··on Facebook Home prototyped in Quartz Composer
I agree. Unfortunately, given the development cycle (last major release was 2011) and some of the issues with OpenCL on iOS it looks like they may already be going that way. It's not included with Xcode currently, but link here if you'd like to download: https://developer.apple.com/downloads/index.action?name=Grap...