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Singleton: Stripe deployed some of the world's first production AI agent systems
“I was working at Stripe, as you mentioned, and we had the opportunity to put some of the very first AI agent systems in the world into production.”
Insight
Singleton: TypeScript is the optimal language for AI-driven development
“TypeScript is an amazing language for AI because there's tons of training data. In the models and it's strongly typed. And actually at the company, we built most of the stack in TypeScript, and we have this amazing property, which is we have type safety all th…”
Insight
Singleton: Dreamer replaced Vector DB RAG for agent memory due to complexity
“Very early on, we were putting lots of facts into a vector database and doing embeddings and pulling them back out using, you know, reverse look of embeddings. Rag that actually worked, but turned out to be much more complexity than was actually required. So, …”
Insight
Singleton: Hands-on engineering managers have the ideal skill profile for AI orchestration
“It turns out being an engineering manager, as long as you stay very close to the code and are able to continue to craft it yourself, is actually a great skill profile for being able to make agents work for you and for your team in this in this age.”
Disclosure
Dreamer pays AI tool builders proportionally based on agent usage
“And we're actually sharing something for the first time on this podcast, which is tool builders on Dreamer get paid. So if you publish a tool to the platform and a lot of agents use it, you'll actually get paid in proportion to their usage.”
Insight
Singleton: Standalone AI apps cannot scale safely without an OS-like core
“Because if you try to pick off just one piece of this, you can't actually make it work for people at scale because you could build little vibe coded apps, but they're going to grab all your data willy nilly. They won't be able to work together. You actually ha…”
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Singleton: Developers must optimize their CLIs for AI agent discovery
“I was chatting with folks at Stripe last week and saying, hey, you got to make the Stripe CLI actually tell agents what they can do on Stripe because that way they're going to use more stuff on Stripe. I think this is a real trend for the entire industry.”
Insight
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…”
Disclosure
Dreamer targets non-technical consumers for building and using AI agents
“Dreamer is a new product which everyone can come and play with today. It's a place where everyone, literally everyone, can discover, build, and enjoy and use AI agents and agentic apps. And we really did design it for consumers, for folks who are not necessari…”
Insight
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.”
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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.”
Insight
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.”
Disclosure
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…”
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Singleton predicts one or two dominant agentic commerce protocols will emerge
“You know, on Dreamer, we hope that folks will build tools that can make use of all of these things, but I'm sure that at a certain .1 or two will emerge as the winners, and then we'll be able to build, like, really deep support in it.”
Disclosure
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?”
Opinion
Singleton: LLMs lack out-of-the-box taste, creativity, and a sense of individuality
“Taste, creativity, sense of individuality is still something that I think that the LLMs are not producing out of the box. And I think that's going to be an interesting frontier.”
Disclosure
Dreamer isolates application sub-agents within dedicated virtual machines
“Any application on Dreamer can kick off a sub-agent to do a particular task. So this actually is a powerful agentic harness that runs inside of its own VM.”
Disclosure
Dreamer uses continuous evaluations to dynamically route tasks across AI models
“Dreamer actually uses all of the state-of-the-art models. As a user, you don't have to think about, should I be using, you know, Opus four six, or should I be using the five four model from OpenAI? We are continually doing evals and so forth to make sure that …”
Disclosure
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 …”
Disclosure
Dreamer architectures AI agents as modular, composable tools
“To some extent, Dreamer does make its own tools in that agents appear to the system as tools, so they can be used to accomplish things. So you can build an agent that is essentially a tool”
Disclosure
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”
