Does anyone have a link to good video footage of the climb?
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views my own (if that), etc.
previous:
- founder, stainless.com
- engineer, stripe
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Notably, this is not a gun.
Stainless is building the platform for high-quality, easy-to-use APIs.
When you `npm install openai` or `pip install anthropic` or `go get …cloudflare`, for example, you’re downloading code that we generated.
We’re ~3y old, ~35 people, have strong revenue, several years of runway, and great customers (including OpenAI, Anthropic, and Cloudflare). We’re backed by Sequoia & a16z.
As one of our first 30 engineers, you’ll get autonomy to build great products, skilled peers, opportunity for tremendous impact, and competitive salary, benefits, and equity.
We’re looking for exceptionally productive, thoughtful, tasteful, and kind people with a passion for making software development better for everyone.
Want to build the future of API tooling? See more at stainless.com/jobs
We actually generate MCP for free (we charge for SDKs), so we're technically not selling, but I don't begrudge GP's comment/sentiment.
[0]https://www.stainless.com/blog/what-we-learned-converting-co... describes some ways in which this is less simple than you think. The "Handling large APIs dynamically" section near the bottom covers the most salient challenge related to converting large APIs to MCP tools, but there's more work to do.
At Stainless we use https://github.com/dgellow/mcp-front to make it easy for anyone on the team (including non-technical folks) to OAuth into a pretty wide variety of tools for their AI chats, using their creds. All proxied on infra we control.
Even our read replica postgres DB is available, just push a button.
MCP is for AI agents, the CLI is for one-off commands by devs who like to poke at things or CI scripts, the TypeScript SDK is for production software written in TypeScript, etc etc.
Was there something we're missing from the "data platform"? A SQL interface?
(I work with yjp20)
That said, many "business users" like those referenced above interact more with a web UI, and asking them to audit bash/CLI interactions might not always work well.
(disclaimer: I work at Stainless; we're actually exploring ways to make MCP servers more "CLI-like" for API use-cases.)
In a normal case of "production software", yeah, you would not want to add an LLM in the middle to make an API call. That's silly – just write the code to make the API call if you can do it deterministically.
If you're talking to an LLM in a chat experience, and you want that LLM to go interact with some foreign system (i.e., hit an API), you need _some way_ of teaching the LLM how to make that API call. MCP is one such way, and it's probably the easiest at this point.
Doing it through MCP does introduce some latency due to a proxy server, but it doesn't introduce an additional LLM "in the middle".
(Disclaimer: I work at Stainless. Note that we actually sell SDKs at Stainless; our MCP generator is free.)
For more curious and lazy people -- what are elicitations?
> The majority of workloads on our Cloud product aren’t time-series. Companies are running entire applications on us... So we are now “TigerData.” We offer the fastest PostgreSQL. ... Our cloud offering is “Tiger Cloud.” Our logo stays the same: the tiger, looking forward, focused and fast... Our open source time-series PostgreSQL extension remains TimescaleDB. Our vector extension is still pgvectorscale. Why “Tiger”? The tiger has been our mascot since 2017, symbolizing the speed, power, and precision we strive for in our database.
Given the logo (and internal company culture around the tiger mascot), I understand where they're coming from, but with the name conflicts (TigerBeetle, WiredTiger, etc) I do wish they'd chosen something else -- like maybe TiScaleDB and give a titanium sheen, do triple duty with the tiger and the Timescale heritage?
Stainless is building the platform for high-quality, easy-to-use APIs.
When you `npm install openai` or `pip install anthropic` or `go get …cloudflare`, for example, you’re downloading code that we generated.
We’re ~3y old, ~25 people, have strong revenue, several years of runway, and great customers (including OpenAI, Anthropic, and Cloudflare). We’re backed by Sequoia & a16z.
As one of our first 20 engineers, you’ll get autonomy to build great products, skilled peers, opportunity for tremendous impact, and competitive salary, benefits, and equity.
We’re looking for exceptionally productive, thoughtful, tasteful, and kind people with a passion for making software development better for everyone.
Want to build the future of API tooling? See more at stainlessapi.com/jobs
I hadn't seen this term before but it looks interesting:
Stainless is building the platform for high-quality, easy-to-use APIs.
When you `npm install openai` or `pip install anthropic` or `go get …cloudflare`, for example, you’re downloading code that we generated.
We’re ~3y old, ~25 people, have strong revenue, several years of runway, and great customers (including OpenAI, Anthropic, and Cloudflare). We’re backed by Sequoia & a16z.
As one of our first 20 engineers, you’ll get autonomy to build great products, skilled peers, opportunity for tremendous impact, and competitive salary, benefits, and equity.
We’re looking for exceptionally productive, thoughtful, tasteful, and kind people with a passion for making software development better for everyone.
Want to build the future of API tooling? See more at stainlessapi.com/jobs
Stainless is building the platform for high-quality, easy-to-use APIs.
When you `npm install openai` or `pip install anthropic` or `go get …cloudflare`, for example, you’re downloading code that we generated.
We’re ~3y old, ~20 people, have strong revenue, several years of runway, and great customers (including OpenAI, Anthropic, and Cloudflare). We’re backed by Sequoia & a16z.
As one of our first 20 engineers, you’ll get autonomy to build great products, skilled peers, opportunity for tremendous impact, and competitive salary, benefits, and equity.
We’re looking for exceptionally productive, thoughtful, tasteful, and kind people with a passion for making software development better for everyone.
Want to build the future of API tooling? See more at stainlessapi.com/jobs
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Does that mean more "support rotations" for TS compiler engineers on GitHub? Are there full-stack TS apps that the TS team owns that ownership can be spread around more? Will the TS team do more rotations onto other teams at MSFT?
Stainless is building the platform for high-quality, easy-to-use APIs.
When you `npm install openai` or `pip install anthropic` or `go get …cloudflare`, for example, you’re downloading code that we generated.
We’re ~3y old, ~20 people, have strong revenue, several years of runway, and great customers (including OpenAI, Anthropic, and Cloudflare). We’re backed by Sequoia & a16z.
As one of our first 20 engineers, you’ll get autonomy to build great products, skilled peers, opportunity for tremendous impact, and competitive salary, benefits, and equity.
We’re looking for exceptionally productive, thoughtful, tasteful, and kind people with a passion for making software development better for everyone.
Want to build the future of API tooling? See more at stainlessapi.com/jobs
Stainless is building the platform for high-quality, easy-to-use APIs.
When you `npm install openai` or `pip install anthropic` or `go get …cloudflare`, for example, you’re downloading code that we generated.
We’re ~3y old, ~20 people, have strong revenue, several years of runway, and great customers (including OpenAI, Anthropic, and Cloudflare). We’re backed by Sequoia & a16z.
As one of our first 20 engineers, you’ll get autonomy to build great products, skilled peers, opportunity for tremendous impact, and competitive salary, benefits, and equity.
We’re looking for exceptionally productive, thoughtful, tasteful, and kind people with a passion for making software development better for everyone.
Want to build the future of API tooling? See more at stainlessapi.com/jobs