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Cooper: Natural language agents will dominate software development within ten years
“That will be kind of the dominant species over the next like 10 years is, is we've moved from assembly to C to C++ to JavaScript to now like words.”
Cooper: Three-month payback buying bare-metal versus renting cloud
“Our payback period when we go to metal if we rent it in the cloud, our payback period is about three months.”
Cooper: The traditional push-pull-rebuild deployment loop will disappear
“Like push, pull, whatever kind of like loop, I just fundamentally believe it's going to go away, right? Like it's, we're going to get to a point where you make a small change in production that changes version across your entire kind of infrastructure. You're …”
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…”
Cooper: Railway is writing custom Linux kernel patches for agent infrastructure
“Like, you know, I was, Adding patches to the kernel this week. Right. Just to like get the experience there.”
Cooper: Railway's cash and server value exceeds total venture capital raised
“Even now the amount of money that we've raised is less than the amount of money that we have in the bank, plus how, what the value of the servers are, because the servers have actually appreciated in value, because RAM has gone up in, in general, right?”
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%.”
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.”
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…”
Cooper: The vast majority of Railway workloads run on bare metal
“Oh, at some point we got to a hundred percent data center, like our own data centers. Yeah. It's, and it's right now it's the vast majority of the stuff that exists on, on our bare metal data centers.”
Cooper: Railway burned roughly $500k monthly during free tier era
“So like free tier era, losing, I think half a million dollars a month.”