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The Data Pipeline is the New Secret Sauce
Jesse Robbins on why data pipelines and inference are AI infrastructure's biggest unsolved challenges — and how enterprises move from first experiments to mature AI programs.
“The biggest challenge emerging is building and operating the infrastructure both for creating and running the data pipelines to build, manage, and maintain a robust, secure body of proprietary data.”
AI Investor Jesse Robbins on NYSE Floor Talk
Jesse Robbins discusses his operator-driven approach to investing in developer tools and AI-enabled infrastructure companies on NYSE Floor Talk, highlighting portfolio companies like PagerDuty, LaunchDarkly, Snyk, Tailscale, and Sanity.
“I am focused on investing in pre-seed and seed companies using AI to enable new ways of writing software, of managing and deploying the software and infrastructure that powers everything.”
Jesse Robbins Named One of the 30 Most Successful Early-Stage Startup Investors
Business Insider named Jesse Robbins one of the 30 most successful early-stage startup investors
Heavybit Welcomes New Member: Continue
Heavybit announces Continue, an open-source tool that brings LLM assistance directly into the IDE. Jesse Robbins on why the best AI developer tools meet engineers where they already work.
“I'm excited to welcome our newest portfolio company, Continue, which gives software engineers the power to streamline their development process using large language models (LLMs) and hit flow state faster and longer.”
Cloud Native StartupFest 2023
Jesse Robbins co-hosted Cloud Native StartupFest at KubeCon NA 2023 with Erica Brescia and Dave Zilberman. Tactical advice on fundraising, open source business models, and what investors actually look for.
“Open source is not a business model. Open source is a movement. We're still figuring out the business models.”
Incident Response and DevOps in the Age of Generative AI
Jesse Robbins convenes a panel of incident management veterans to examine where generative AI genuinely helps in SRE and DevOps — and where humans must stay in the loop.
“GenAI is good at confidently delivering text that is pleasant to read, but not always complete, or correct.”
DevOps is dead? Nope, it is maturing ft. Jesse Robbins
Jesse Robbins joins CircleCI CTO Rob Zuber on The Confident Commit to argue that DevOps is not dead but growing up, and that the hard problems now are organizational, not technical.
What to Know About the Modern Incident Response Lifecycle
Heavybit's guide to modern incident management quotes Jesse Robbins on why teams only master incident response when they embrace the whole process — detection, response, and learning.
“Teams only get good at this when they embrace the whole process and each of its steps.”