Jake Cooper

9 statements across 1 episodes · 3 bullish · 3 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement May 20, 2026 by Jake Cooper · across every show →

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May 20, 2026 bullish
Opinion
Cooper: Developers writing code by hand instead of reviewing AI are wrong
“If you're writing code by hand, you are doing this wrong, right? Like, they're code, the tools are good enough at this point, like, that you move extremely, extremely quickly, and like, yes, there are issues and pain points and all these other things but, You …”
Jake Cooper May 20, 2026 ▶ 1:07:37 The Agent-Native Cloud: 3M Users, 100K Signups/Wk, Data Centers, & Death PRs — Jake Cooper, Railway
May 20, 2026
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Cooper: Rebuilt Railway's network overlay in one weekend for multi-cloud
“I spent a weekend rebuilding our entire, like, Network, like overlay essentially, so that we could straddle five different clouds.”
Jake Cooper May 20, 2026 ▶ 19:42 The Agent-Native Cloud: 3M Users, 100K Signups/Wk, Data Centers, & Death PRs — Jake Cooper, Railway
May 20, 2026 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Cooper: Agentic workloads will destroy traditional static AWS instances
“I think the era of, like, I have an AWS instance, and I'm going to, you know, get four vCPU and 16 gigs of RAM, It's going to get, like, completely destroyed, right? Because it's like, if you do that for agents or anything else like that, you now need a thousa…”
Jake Cooper May 20, 2026 ▶ 50:58 The Agent-Native Cloud: 3M Users, 100K Signups/Wk, Data Centers, & Death PRs — Jake Cooper, Railway
May 20, 2026 neutral
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Cooper: Companies will reserve massive token budgets for elite AI developers
“I think what you're going to end up with is actually, you're going to almost, like, end up with the, like, F-one driver concept. Which is if you have a, if you have somebody who's like really, really adept at these things it makes sense to go and put them into…”
Jake Cooper May 20, 2026 ▶ 1:10:26 The Agent-Native Cloud: 3M Users, 100K Signups/Wk, Data Centers, & Death PRs — Jake Cooper, Railway
May 20, 2026 negative
Opinion
Cooper: Slack and Discord are awful tools for team communication
“I think Slack, I think, and incidentally, I think Discord's awful too.”
Jake Cooper May 20, 2026 ▶ 36:26 The Agent-Native Cloud: 3M Users, 100K Signups/Wk, Data Centers, & Death PRs — Jake Cooper, Railway
May 20, 2026 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Cooper: Railway achieves roughly 70% margins on bare-metal infrastructure
“Because we've built out our metal data centers, like our margins on metal are like quite high for the like 70%.”
Jake Cooper May 20, 2026 ▶ 20:46 The Agent-Native Cloud: 3M Users, 100K Signups/Wk, Data Centers, & Death PRs — Jake Cooper, Railway
May 20, 2026 bearish
Opinion
Cooper: AI SREs without safe primitives will destroy production databases
“If you just unleash an AI SRE on your production infrastructure and you don't have like safe primitives for like copying volumes, making sure that this is fine, it's gonna nuke your production database. Like it's not a matter of if, it's a matter of when it's …”
Jake Cooper May 20, 2026 ▶ 46:38 The Agent-Native Cloud: 3M Users, 100K Signups/Wk, Data Centers, & Death PRs — Jake Cooper, Railway
May 20, 2026 positive
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Cooper: A new version control system outside Git will ultimately emerge
“And I do think that something ultimately outside Git will emerge in terms of how we're going to go into version a lot of these things over time.”
Jake Cooper May 20, 2026 ▶ 27:28 The Agent-Native Cloud: 3M Users, 100K Signups/Wk, Data Centers, & Death PRs — Jake Cooper, Railway
May 20, 2026 neutral
Assertion Supported
Cooper: Railway has scaled to 3 million users
“When you go and kind of roll out to those, like that, like large user base of like three million people, right. You know, like you have a lot of different disparate behaviors that, that can kind of come up.”
Jake Cooper May 20, 2026 ▶ 39:27 The Agent-Native Cloud: 3M Users, 100K Signups/Wk, Data Centers, & Death PRs — Jake Cooper, Railway
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