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Sterling Chin @sterlingchin.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Why didn't I think of this before?! I have an OpenCode session running on my gaming computer and need to get back up to my desk to do other work. I gave Codex the goal to monitor the open terminal running an experiment. Now it's looping, and giving me updates!

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Sterling Chin @sterlingchin.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Come by the @inngest.com booth at AI Engineer World's Fair and grab your very own laptop hand that holds your laptop open when your agents are running! I only printed 120 of them, so grab them while they last!

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Sterling Chin @sterlingchin.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Are you gonna be in town for the AI Engineer World's Fair next week in SF? I'm gonna be wandering around the expo hall! Come find me at the @inngest.com booth or while I'm around the expo floor!

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Sterling Chin @sterlingchin.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

I love this! I gave codex a complex goal and it ran for over a day and completed the goal! Thank you OpenAI ❤️🫶

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Sterling Chin @sterlingchin.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

step.waitForEvent pauses execution until "post.approved" arrives, then resumes immediately. No polling loop, no cron job checking a DB flag. Set a timeout and it auto-cancels if approval never comes.

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Sterling Chin @sterlingchin.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Scheduled and published by my own AI chief of staff. No Buffer, no third-party scheduler, just a durable Inngest function that slept until the right moment and posted. The agents are doing real work now. 🤖

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Sterling Chin @sterlingchin.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

{AI} in Production is back. July 2nd at the Inngest office in SF. I'm really excited to host this amazing group of speakers! Four talks from teams running AI in production at scale: 🔧 Cursor 🔐 Arcade 🎙️ Vapi ⚙️ @inngest.com Real demos, real production lessons, no vendor pitches. RSVP link in 🧵

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Sterling Chin @sterlingchin.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

The recent tech layoffs are about freeing up capital to test AI?! Over the weekend, I was at a kids birthday party, and had a 4 hour convo with another dad. He works at <redacted>, and formerly at <redacted>, and asked me about my opinions on AI, agents I've built, and my predictions for the future

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Sterling Chin @sterlingchin.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Engineer at a 1,000+ org, 2026 benchmark: "Retries, duplicate events, partial failures, long-running jobs... still hard to build systems easy to debug, resume safely, and trust at scale." Resources don't fix this. Connected stacks do. Link in thread ↓

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Sterling Chin @sterlingchin.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

The 19% of AI teams confident their stack scales 2-3x aren't using different tools. They use tools that are tightly connected. Show me what ran. Why it stopped. If it's safe to resume. All in one place. The work for 2026 is connection. Link in thread ↓

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Sterling Chin @sterlingchin.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

AX is the most important thing your company can be focusing on right now. How does an agent interact with your product. Your infrastructure and APIS are the most important commodities in the AX world.

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Sterling Chin @sterlingchin.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Say it with me: AGENT EXPERIENCE Michael from @workos.bsky.social took the stage at MCP Night and talked about building systems that agents can use And your agents need durable infrastructure. That's what we're building at @inngest.com!!! #AX #AgentExperience #MCPNight

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Sterling Chin @sterlingchin.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

69% of AI teams in production are not using a third-party agent framework. They're calling LLMs directly or building their own. Top complaints: abstractions make failures harder to trace (26%), poor long-running support (19%), don't compose with orchestration (12%). Link in thread ↓

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Sterling Chin @sterlingchin.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

35% of teams running AI in production are not doing AI evals at all. Of the 65% who do, most built their own pipeline. 47% cite the same gap: eval state and orchestration state can't see each other. That's not an evals problem. It's a context problem. Link in thread ↓

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Sterling Chin @sterlingchin.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

I have a robotic arm with a camera in my office. I left Codex to its own devices. it can control the arm, look around, comment on what's happening, and it's focused on my cat. And my cat keeps looking at the arm. lol The infra was built with @inngest.com and the python sdk.

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Sterling Chin @sterlingchin.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Sometimes AI vampires need to touch grass. Thank God for mobile hotspots.

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Sterling Chin @sterlingchin.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

"Debugging feels more like forensics than engineering." Engineer quote from our 2026 AI report. Observability = #1 unsolved problem (19% of responses). Orch-native observability: 40% diagnose in minutes. APM-only: 11x more slow-or-blind cases. Link in thread ↓

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Sterling Chin @sterlingchin.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

AI teams spend 2x the time on reliability vs non-AI teams. We split that by orchestration tool. 12-month change in burden: - Inngest: -10pp - Custom: -9pp - Temporal: +22pp - AWS/Vercel/CF: +9pp Tooling is bending that curve. The question is which way. Link in thread ↓

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Sterling Chin @sterlingchin.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

More engineers should mean more confidence. Right? We surveyed 130 engineers for the 2026 AI in Production benchmark. 26% of small teams are very confident at 2-3x scale. 13% of mid teams. 0% of teams with 500+ engineers. The gap isn't tooling. It's context across the stack. Link in thread ↓

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Sterling Chin @sterlingchin.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Cron is older than I am. Ken Thompson wrote it in 1975. We still hand it our most important jobs. Now AI agents. Server down at 9am? Missed. Halfway failure? Stranded. Inngest gives cron durable execution. Same syntax. Recovers from anything.

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Sterling Chin @sterlingchin.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

5 things a platform owes an AI agent mid-task: 1. State that survives failure 2. Deterministic retry 3. Pause and resume across time 4. Failure as first-class 5. Multi-agent coordination Link in thread ↓

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Sterling Chin @sterlingchin.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

I'm testing an AI clone using HeyGen and ElevenLabs It's not that I want to replace myself, but there is a lot of content that I want to get out, and there isn't enough time to record and edit all the videos. I'm thinking of this as part of a learning program for new users. What do you think?

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Sterling Chin @sterlingchin.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

AGI needs more than scale. Demis Hassabis says we still lack continual learning, memory, and steady reasoning. Agents are the path, and small models plus distillation already let engineers do 1000x the work. If AGI lands near 2030, are you building with it in mind or ignoring it?

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Sterling Chin @sterlingchin.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Weida Tan, co-founder of Press Club, speaking at AI in Production on May 6. Talk: "From Vibe Coding Demo to AGI-Proof Software." AI made impressive demos easy. Knowing what will last is hard. Weida's covering how to ship prototypes that survive the AGI tide. Inngest HQ SF, 5:30. Link in thread ↓

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Sterling Chin @sterlingchin.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Google dropped DESIGN.md It gives coding agents a structured design system in one markdown file You define colors, typography, spacing, and components, then lint and export with a CLI If you build with AI agents, your design tokens need a spec like this Sources in 🧵

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Sterling Chin @sterlingchin.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Matt Biilmann named four pillars of Agent Experience in Jan 2025: Access. Context. Tools. Orchestration. Pillars 1-3 have llms.txt, MCP, agents.json. Pillar 4 has: nothing. That's why I joined Inngest.

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Jason Lengstorf @jason.energy · 27/04/2026

the hardest part of building a moat that no one tells you about? it’s the pH balance otherwise you end up with an algae bloom and the water looks all green and gross

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Sterling Chin @sterlingchin.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Matt Dailey (founder, Ref) is speaking at AI in Production on May 6. Talk: "What won't change?" The angle: this is the best time ever to be a junior engineer, if your team adopts the right practices. Matt's bringing a blueprint. Inngest HQ SF, doors 5:30. Link in thread ↓

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Sterling Chin @sterlingchin.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

It's time to confess your AI Crimes In Production! Anonymously share your worst crimes shipping AI to production and who knows, maybe I'll read it on a live stream. There have already been a few confessions that I can't wait to read to y'all soon. Link in the thread

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Sterling Chin @sterlingchin.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Go watch an AI agent run a 20-step workflow on your platform. Let step 14 fail. What happens next is your AX, measured honestly. Pillar 4 of Agent Experience is the one nobody's defined.

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Sterling Chin @sterlingchin.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

99% of people have no idea what is happening with AI Using GPT or Claude is level one, and you still do the work Level two is agents that plan, execute, and deliver full projects with one goal Level three is one AI running teams of sub agents across your business and life Which level are you on?

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Sterling Chin @sterlingchin.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

I don't think @brittanyellich.com and I had fun taping the latest @overcommitted.dev podcast episode...nope...no fun at all. Thanks for having me as a guest on the show! Can't wait to share the episode and maybe open source the AI agents we discussed at the end.

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Sterling Chin @sterlingchin.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Weekend listening: went on the Chain of Thought podcast and talked about building my AI chief of staff MARVIN from scratch. Good one for a walk or some yard work. open.spotify.com/episode/70sb...

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Sterling Chin @sterlingchin.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Went on @ConorBronsdon's Chain of Thought podcast and shared my whole framework for building an AI chief of staff. Treat it like a junior hire. Onboard it. Give it context. Let it grow. 40 days later, mid-level. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFT-...

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Sterling Chin @sterlingchin.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

The new Postman unified workbench finally looks like an IDE. Native git, Agent Mode, API Catalog, and a workspace that actually feels like home for developers. I'm genuinely excited for March 1st. This is Postman becoming what I've always wanted it to be.

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Sterling Chin @sterlingchin.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

The scariest question you can ask an enterprise team: "How many APIs do you actually have running in production?" API Catalog in the new Postman gives you that answer. Finally. Launches March 1st.

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Sterling Chin @sterlingchin.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

if you use Cursor (or any AI editor), stop repeating yourself every session. Cursor Rules + Postman MCP = an AI assistant that actually remembers your API patterns. wrote up how to set it up. starter kit included: github.com/Postman-Devr...

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Sterling Chin @sterlingchin.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Just dropped: how to connect Cursor to your Postman workspace via MCP. Set up the MCP server, search APIs from the editor, generate client code, and keep docs in sync as you build. youtu.be/cKUXopUlGPg

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Sterling Chin @sterlingchin.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Agent Mode in @getpostman finally lets you pick your model. Opus 4.5, GPT 5.2, whatever works for you. Sounds small. It's not. About damn time. (support for Opus 4.6 and GPT 5.3 coming soon too) The new Postman drops March 1st.

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Sterling Chin @sterlingchin.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

MCP Apps recently launched. AI tools can now return interactive UIs instead of just text. Postman already supports them. New post breaks down what this means for API developers. 🔗https://buff.ly/cru6lbq

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MCP Apps Are Here, and Postman Already Supports Them

How Postman became the testing and development platform for the AI agent era

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Sterling Chin @sterlingchin.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Been testing Postman's native Git workflows for months. .postman directory in my repo. Collections in feature branches. Environments that merge with my code. It's about damn time. 🔥 The new Postman drops March 1st.

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Sterling Chin @sterlingchin.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

I spent the weekend building an agent skill for Postman. Seriously, Anthropic's skills are wicked awesome.

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Sterling Chin @sterlingchin.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

You're vibe coding wrong (And it's not your fault) Last week I was talking with a colleague about all the side projects I've got going on, and he said offhandedly "After hearing how you code now, I think I'm vibe coding wrong." It's all on my Substack! open.substack.com/pub/sterling...

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You're Vibe Coding Wrong (And It's Not Your Fault)

Let’s say the quiet part out loud: most people are vibe coding completely backwards.

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Sterling Chin @sterlingchin.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

I've always wanted to be an action figure! I love this prompt from Gemini that took a photo of me and turned me into an action figure.

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Sterling Chin @sterlingchin.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Thank you to everyone who attended my session at API World last week on Building Agenting Workflows with MCP. After my session, I had quite a few attendees ask me for the slides. Over the weekend I updated my website (www.sterlingchin.com#talks) with many of my recent talks!

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Sterling Chin

Engineering Leader and Speaker

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Sterling Chin @sterlingchin.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

AI passes the Turing test, but it's not conscious. I've been mulling this over for a few months, but then @mustafasuleymanai.bsky.social's essay where he coined the phrase "Seemingly Conscious AI" took it over the top The reality is that we're not ready for SCAI open.substack.com/pub/sterling...

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AI Passes the Turing Test, But It's Not Conscious

The Attachment Problem

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Sterling Chin @sterlingchin.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

What are the odds, just enjoying a glass of wine and some apps at the Boroughs Market in London, and someone walks up and asks about my shirt. Yes, MCP is everywhere now! By the way, you can find the shirt here: www.etsy.com/listing/4313...

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Jason Lengstorf @jason.energy · 28/04/2025

I have watched this clip a hundred times and I still giggle EVERY. SINGLE. TIME @willjohnson.bsky.social and @focusotter.bsky.social brought a special kind of energy to Web Dev Challenge I don't think we will (should?) see on the show again 😆 full episode: codetv.link/wdc/s2e1

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Sterling Chin @sterlingchin.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

I feel like I live in a bubble in a bubble. I spent some time over the weekend with some long time friends who are also developers. We started talking shop, as one does when you're in a group of developers.

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