David Singleton
person on 3 shows · 14 statements across 5 episodes · said 11 times in 3 episodes since 2023
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Lenny's Podcast 9No Priors 2
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Singleton: AI agents work best when integrated into users' existing apps
“We've actually find that making things show up in the other apps that you already use in your life is incredibly powerful.”
Singleton built an AI Engineer Conference schedule app in 25 minutes
“And I was able to build this yesterday morning. I did it between some meetings. I think I spent a total of 25 minutes of wall clock time on it. I did it over the course of a couple of hours.”
Self-testing feedback loops unlock the magic of state-of-the-art coding models
“Anytime you can get any modern state-of-the-art coding model into a loop where it can make changes and perceive its own output and then fix bugs, magic happens.”
Dreamer uses autonomous AI agents to research and screen waitlist signups
“So at this point, we pretty much run the company on Dreamer agents for all kinds of important things. Maybe a good example of that is our wait list. People are signing up. Every time someone signs up for our waitlist, a Dreamer agent will actually research tha…”
Singleton: Dreamer keeps tool interfaces stable while updating underlying models
“So the point behind these, though, is that we'll keep the interfaces stable, so they'll always work. But, you know, the best translation model, and, you know, there are people using this translation tool to translate Chinese podcasts into English. It's pretty …”
Dreamer built its initial AI platform with a core team of six
“The core team that built everything I just showed you was honestly about six people. We're larger now. We're about 17 people at the company now”
Singleton primarily evaluates engineering candidates on their ability to use coding agents
“One of the main things that I look for now when hiring engineers is how well do you work with coding agents?”
Singleton: Orchestrating concurrent coding agents in a round-robin pipeline multiplies productivity
“Anytime I'm working on code these days, I always have more than one agent going at the same time, because while one agent is going and reviewing the output of the next one, and if you get them in a nice round robin, you can be very, very productive. You can al…”
Stripe credits its 99.999 percent reliability to random 'Spin the Wheel' reviews
“When I asked him about the rituals there, he said, well, the secret to why Stripe has five nines of reliability is a ritual they call Spin the Wheel. And it started with a operational reviews, where they used to come in, and they would look at all the outages …”
Sands: Stripe Funds Small Accelerators for Six-Month AI Bets
“So the idea of accelerators is basically ring fencing one to two pizza teams and multiple of them to get new AI bets seated. And one of the accelerators was actually what produced this LLM Explorer. So it's very hard to just pull three engineers off of You kno…”
Stripe's Design Head and CTO regularly test random product flows together
“David Singleton, who you mentioned, he and I do these things very regularly too. Like this is like kind of outside the essential journeys program, but like he and I walk the store and we'll just pick random flows and go through it together. And, you know, I ca…”
CTO David Singleton completes monthly user onboarding to log product friction
“For years and years, I have gone through the process of onboarding as an user to Stripe once a month, writing a friction log, and then tagging in the right people across the company that might need to take action on some of the things that we're observing.”
Stripe engineering managers take annual 'engineercations' to retain operational context
“I advise engineering managers at Stripe that they should do an engineer occasion sometime in their first quarter to six months at the company gives you a tremendous amount of context for what your teams are actually experiencing. And then for folks who do it o…”