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Cooper: AI coding agents prefer complex CLIs with hundreds of flags
“Things that were prohibitively annoying to humans are not actually prohibitively annoying to agents. They're really, really nice, right? And so, if I wanted to hand you a CLI and I said, hey, guess what? The CLI has 40 arguments and. Right. 600 flags. You'd be…”
Jake Cooper May 20, 2026 ▶ 30:18 The Agent-Native Cloud: 3M Users, 100K Signups/Wk, Data Centers, & Death PRs — Jake Cooper, Railway
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Cooper: Temporal requires holding full workflow states mentally, risking replay bugs
“Temporal was always like really, really, really great in theory. And it was really, really great when you got it working the way that you wanted to in production. It's just, it required you to like model that entire journey in your head. And if you didn't have…”
Jake Cooper May 20, 2026 ▶ 1:01:24 The Agent-Native Cloud: 3M Users, 100K Signups/Wk, Data Centers, & Death PRs — Jake Cooper, Railway
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Cooper: Developers can treat servers as pets with instantaneous cloning
“I think you can move towards having pets so long as you have a, and this is gonna be a jump, so long as you have a cloning machine for your pets. If you can snapshot every single thing at every frame, then, like, It actually doesn't matter if, you know, that t…”
Jake Cooper May 20, 2026 ▶ 1:17:59 The Agent-Native Cloud: 3M Users, 100K Signups/Wk, Data Centers, & Death PRs — Jake Cooper, Railway
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Cooper: Two is the worst number of co-founders due to deadlocks
“And this is why I was saying like two is the worst number of co-founders is because you have no tie break, right? You basically are like, well, I disagree on this thing and I disagree on this thing, right? I was like, well, how do you resolve that, right?”
Jake Cooper May 20, 2026 ▶ 1:22:47 The Agent-Native Cloud: 3M Users, 100K Signups/Wk, Data Centers, & Death PRs — Jake Cooper, Railway
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Cooper: Agent infra requires 1000x scale rather than new primitives
“And so like the branching and forking stuff, like it's not different. Like we're just moving a thousand times quicker than we used to. And so some of these things like look like you really need like something massively, massively different, but it's just, you …”
Jake Cooper May 20, 2026 ▶ 28:04 The Agent-Native Cloud: 3M Users, 100K Signups/Wk, Data Centers, & Death PRs — Jake Cooper, Railway
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Cooper: Infrastructure canvases will become output review tools instead of inputs
“We have previously used it a lot as an input and its goal moving forward is actually a lot more like an output. What I mean by that is you would go to the canvas and you'd make some changes and all these other things, whatever. Right. And you see them and, you…”
Jake Cooper May 20, 2026 ▶ 33:26 The Agent-Native Cloud: 3M Users, 100K Signups/Wk, Data Centers, & Death PRs — Jake Cooper, Railway
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