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Founder of an agent reliability engineering startup. We are a VC-backed company that works with RL, fine-tuning, MCP and agents.

Agents in production fail unpredictably, and you only know when customers complain. We find root causes and help you fix what matters, turning issues into reliable agent behaviour.

Feel free to reach out: robert@moyai.ai https://moyai.ai

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# Moyai | Amsterdam, The Netherlands | FULL-TIME | ONSITE | Founding Product Engineer

About the company:

• Technical founding team with relevant industry experience

• Backed by well-known European VCs (SpeedInvest + Galion.exe)

• Cloud native & freedom to shape our tech stack (TypeScript + Python)

Ideal candidate:

• Previous experience at start-up building tech at scale

• Thinks in terms of product functionality and customer demands not just features

• Familiar with API first practices and frameworks

• Bonus points if you are an ex-founder or have been first hire before

Moyai is an AI-powered agent monitoring tool for AI engineers looking to catch agent failures in production. Reach out to the founder directly: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rhommes/ or visit our website https://moyai.ai

Moyai | Amsterdam, The Netherlands | FULL-TIME | ONSITE | Founding Platform Engineer | 60k-100k + Equity

About the company:

• Technical founding team with relevant industry experience (part of Nvidia Inception Program)

• Backed by well-known European VCs (SpeedInvest + Galion.exe)

• Building anomaly detection and agentic evaluation on top of AI agent observability stack (Otel Native)

Ideal candidate:

Experience in open telemetry and observability. Preferably in a cloud native startup environment and excited to help product teams achieve maximum developer velocity with best-in-class DX and dev tooling. Bonus if you are an ex-founder.

Reach out to the founder directly: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rhommes/ or visit our website https://moyai.ai

Moyai | Amsterdam, The Netherlands | FULL-TIME | ONSITE | Founding Product Engineer |

About the company:

• Technical founding team with relevant industry experience

• Backed by well-known European VCs (SpeedInvest + Galion.exe)

• Cloud native & freedom to shape our tech stack (TypeScript + Python)

Ideal candidate:

• Previous experience at start-up building tech at scale

• Thinks in terms of product functionality and customer demands not just features

• Familiar with API first practices and frameworks

• Bonus points if you are an ex-founder or have been first hire before

Moyai is an AI-powered agent monitoring tool for AI engineers looking to catch agent failures in production. Reach out to the founder directly: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/rhommes/](https://www.linkedin.com/in/rhommes/) or visit our website https://moyai.ai

I would add that "extremely sound data engineering" is also necessary to make observability cost-effective. Some of these otel platforms can burn 10%-25% of your cloud budget to show you your logs. That is insane.

Moyai | Amsterdam, The Netherlands | FULL-TIME | ONSITE | Founding Product Engineer | 60k-80k + Equity

About the company:

• Technical founding team with relevant industry experience

• Backed by well-known European VCs (SpeedInvest + Galion.exe)

• Cloud native & freedom to shape our tech stack (TypeScript + Python)

Ideal candidate:

• Previous experience at start-up building tech at scale

• Thinks in terms of product functionality and customer demands not just features

• Familiar with API first practices and frameworks

• Bonus points if you are an ex-founder or have been first hire before

Moyai is an AI-powered agent monitoring tool for AI engineers looking to catch agent failures in production. Reach out to the founder directly: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rhommes/ or visit our website https://moyai.ai

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"Because there’s too much you need to feed into it" - what does the author mean by this? If it is the amount of data, then I would say sampling needs to be implemented. If that's the extent of the information required from the agent builder, I agree that an LLM-as-a-judge e2e eval setup is necessary.

In general, a more generic eval setup is needed, with minimal requirements from AI engineers, if we want to move forward from Vibe's reliability engineering practices as a sector.

Just another example of money scaling your way out of a problem. What you don't understand is hard to optimize. Like how you have solved this by acting as an smart router in between that first understands what to optimize and then actually implement that optimization.

Moyai | Amsterdam, The Netherlands | FULL-TIME | ONSITE | Founding AI Engineer | 60k-80k + Equity

About the company:

• Technical founding team with relevant industry experience (part of Nvidia Inception Program)

• Backed by well-known European VCs (SpeedInvest + Galion.exe)

• Building infrastructure-less agentic evals and agent-as-a-judge monitoring

Ideal candidate:

• Demonstrated shipping ability with past projects & roles

• "Young and hungry” mindset, prioritising ability to learn with agency over experience

• Familiar with fine-tuning algorithms and frameworks, transformers/trl, ART, verl and unsloth

• Bonus points for experience in contributing to open-source projects, startups, AI agents, & similar technologies

Reach out to the founder directly: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rhommes/ or visit our website https://moyai.ai

My personal opinion is that true engineering, which revolves around turning complex theory into working practice, has seen a decline in grace. Why spend a lot of time trying to master the art of engineering if you can ride the wave of engineering services and get away with it?

In true hacker spirit, I don't think trying to train a model on a wonky GPU is something that needs an ROI for the individual engineer. It's something they do because they yearn to acquire knowledge.

Moyai | Amsterdam, The Netherlands | FULL-TIME | ONSITE | Founding AI Engineer | 60k-80k + Equity

About the company:

• Technical founding team with relevant industry experience (part of Nvidia Inception Program)

• Backed by well-known European VCs (SpeedInvest + Galion.exe)

• Building agentic advanced analytics and fine-tuning analytical reasoning models

Ideal candidate:

• Demonstrated shipping ability with past projects & roles

• "Young and hungry” mindset, prioritising ability to learn with agency over experience

• Familiar with fine-tuning algorithms and frameworks, transformers/trl, ART, verl and unsloth

• Bonus points for experience in contributing to open-source projects, startups, AI agents, & similar technologies

Reach out to the founder directly: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rhommes/

Moyai | Amsterdam, The Netherlands | Full Time | Onsite | Founding AI Engineer | 60k-80k + Equity

About the company:

• Technical founding team with relevant industry experience (part of Nvidia Inception Program)

• Backed by well-known European VCs (SpeedInvest+Galion.exe)

• Building agentic advanced analytics and fine-tuning analytical reasoning models

Ideal candidate:

• Demonstrated shipping ability with past projects & roles

• "Young and hungry” mindset, prioritising ability to learn with agency over experience

• Familiar with fine-tuning algorithms and frameworks, transformers/trl, ART, verl and unsloth

• Bonus points for experience in contributing to open-source projects, startups, AI agents, & similar technologies

Reach out to the founder directly: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rhommes/

Only thing that is unclear to me is to which extend this setup depends on the package publisher. PyPi might be terrible at least it just works when you want to publish that it leads to more complexity for the ones that are looking to use this piece of free software is not for the maintainer.

Maybe they are only targeting dev tooling companies as a way to simplify how they distribute. Especially in the accelerated compute era.

Founding AI Engineer at AI Tech Startup (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)

About the company:

- Technical founding team with relevant industry experience - Backed by well-known European VCs - Building agentic advanced analytics and fine-tuning analytical reasoning models

Ideal candidate:

- Demonstrated shipping ability with past projects & roles - “Young and hungry” mindset, prioritizing ability to learn with agency over experience - Familiar with fine-tuning algorithms and frameworks, transformers/trl, verl and unsloth - Bonus points for experience in contributing to open-source projects, startups, AI agents, & similar technologies

Help us push the boundaries of what's possible with analytical reasoning AI. Reach out to the founder directly: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rhommes/

Typical dark pattern with your mystery boxes and player skins. Claude code just makes it easier to tell yourself that its ok to play.

First of all great book! Second I think the postulation of Taleb is that anti-fragility means you benefit from chaos or uncertainty. I think the relationship this could have with starting a new business is most evident in technology or software development.

Well designed designed code brings the developer optionality. While legacy enterprise software packages gives you stability or yield. It just works and has proven to work for a long time. The turkey that just wakes up every day to get fed. He is not incentivised to change its behaviour. But what if the time change, what if the market changes? The legacy software is rigid hard to change. You cant just implement a paradigm shifting technology cause your design doesn't facilitate it. The startup on the other hand has optionality. It hasn't relied on the same database technology for the last 10 years. It hasn't implemented a certain programming language because it was not hot when they started 20 years ago. They can shift what they are doing and fully gain from the changing wind.

This event has given the startup the edge it might need. Think of NVIDIA vs Intel. Who would have thought GPUs would be important. They just for gamers right? Change by lack of a better word is good. If you are anti-fragile that is.