Jesse Robbins: Founder and Investor in AI Developer Tools
The last twenty years changed the way we build and deploy software. The next ten years will change everything.
I back extraordinary founders building AI developer tools and the infrastructure underneath them. I cofounded Chef and the DevOps movement.
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The Seed 100: The Best Early-Stage Investors of 2026
Business Insider named Jesse Robbins to its 2026 Seed 100, its annual ranking of the best early-stage venture investors. Robbins invests in AI developer tools and infrastructure, with recent investments including Figure AI, Shield AI, Instacart, and Fastly. He cofounded Chef and the DevOps movement.
What the Apple Neural Engine and Google's TPU tell us about the next decade of inference
A deep-research report on neural processors. What they are, how they differ from GPUs, and what Apple and Google have built across the Apple Neural Engine (ANE) and the TPU lineage.
How to run vector search on a website in the browser with no server (like I do)
Here's how to do semantic search on your website without a server. Open the search box and the page downloads a small embedding model and a 160 KB vector index; from then on every query is answered locally in the browser, fused with keyword search. What I built, what to install.
Good Fences make Good Agents: sandvault + /sv skill (part 1 of n)
A simple solution to working with agents that cannot be trusted to run 'ls'. Install with brew. Works in seconds. I added a few features.
Sunil Dhaliwal, Founder of Amplify Partners, on Lessons from 27 Years in VC
My friend Sunil Dhaliwal has proven to be one of the most successful investors in our space. Two far-ranging hours on We The Builders, from the dot-com bubble to where the AI boom is really constrained to building Amplify. Go listen to the whole thing.
Call a savepoint
Working with AI engages the same dopamine machinery as slot machines. The hollow feeling at the end of a 2.3B-token week is the loop doing what loops like this do. The fix is a savepoint.
What I look for when I invest
On airCFO's Funded podcast I walked through how I evaluate companies at Heavybit, why market size is the first filter I apply, and how I read co-founder dynamics before I read the pitch.