Ian Livingstone
@ianlivingstone
🏃♂️ 🍁 & 🔨 — Co-Founder @keycardlabs, Co-Host @theinfrapod
The current enterprise data war - with Salesforce shutting down access to Slack and Snowflake avoiding building an MCP server for exfil is going to get unreal the second half of this year. They’re all holding on to prevent disintermediation- ultimately- they will lose because…
🔥 up to announce @boldstartvc Fund VII $250M to back bold technical founders building the autonomous enterprise. From Inception. Before the world believes. It always starts with an idea that feels insane… until it isn’t. 🎥👇🧵
🤖 How do you build AI agents that actually work? Most AI teams chase demos -- few ship real products that work in production. In this episode, @tnachen and @ianlivingstone chat with @HamelHusain, who has helped organizations do it right, at scale. Here’s what most teams are…
The best part of working in tech is all of the Icarus moments -- the latest being Sohem Parekh. You can't beat the hustle; the fraud, on the other hand, would be great to avoid. The key to survival isn't avoiding an Icarus moment; it's avoiding the fraud.
Theo just dropped the most detailed breakdown of @vercel vs @Cloudflare Sandbox products and called out us - @daytonaio as one of the few building serious sandbox infra. @theo, we appreciate the love. Agent-native infra is coming. We’re just getting started. Full video below 👇
Today we're announcing that Eventual has raised $30M in Seed and Series A funding from @CRV and @felicis as well as @ycombinator, @M12vc and @Citi and others. The AI era needs data infrastructure built for AI, not retrofitted. 🧵
🚂 What if your cloud was as simple as drag & drop—but ran on fully custom infra under the hood? This week on The Infra Pod, @tnachen & @ianlivingstone talk with @railway CEO @JustJake about building a new kind of cloud. Not AWS-compatible—better. 🧵👇
☁️ The BYOC tide is coming. In this week’s pod, @tnachen & @ianlivingstone chat with @nuonjon (@Nuon CEO) about why Bring Your Own Cloud is finally getting hot—and what that means for the future of SaaS. 🧵👇
Agents will destroy captchas - real question: what replaces it? We need to adopt new standard for Layer 5 identity - so we can happy path bots & agents and WAF can kick out bad bots.
I present the AI Resistant Captcha — for now using the Apple Paper (that one) and Proof of Work. I was really surprised that it got through the entire generation
AI needs browser infrastructure - it's about the long tail. On the latest pod, @tnachen & @ianlivingstone sit down with @pk_iv (@browserbase CEO) to talk about: 🌐 Headless browsers 🤖 AI agents 🛠️ And the wild world of browser automation infra
How do we get agents out of the lab and into production? We have to solve the agent identity & access control problem first. If you’re in SF on Tuesday, you won’t want to miss @jaredhanson at The Lastmile meetup!
Taking AI to production with reliability and safety is hard. Join me with @KeycardLabs + friends tomorrow night at @github in San Francisco for The Last Mile in AI where we will discuss how to solve these challenges. lu.ma/rp5hr4x7
I rewrote @tobi's AI Memo in the style of @MarkJCarney's Mandate Letter to Cabinet as a way to think about what an AI-integral government would do first. jevon.wordpress.com/2025/06/09/a-g…
Codegen product launches will not cease until every product is codegen. Codegen all the way down.
We just open-sourced a reference implementation for building codegen products on top of Neon: app.build Local-first, built for developers. Inspired by @v0, @Replit, @create_xyz and @samedotdev
Local first and realtime sync have been “on the rise” for the last 15 years. It wasn’t truly ready in wave one (mobile & cloud) - that wasn’t truly about a step change in UX & more about accessibility than anything else. The agent wave is the key moment: - Data is actually…
My takeaways from this year's @localfirstconf Last year we collectively were at the stage of “hey this syncing tech is cool, you don’t need the cloud as much” and “hey, we have a community here, who knew?” This year it felt like the community had more cohesion and sense of…
✅No JVMs ✅No JARs ✅Local or Distributed ✅One engine for all Daft #LaunchWeek Day 3: SPARK CONNECT FOR DAFT 🚀 Switch from PySpark to Daft with just TWO lines of code and run the SAME Spark queries, but faster and simpler. And easily scale from local to distributed with Ray.…
I argue a lot with folks about MCP - in good faith - they often don’t understand the significance- it’s simply the common representation of workflows offered by a platform. It’s not more, not less and it doesn’t have to be to transformational when paired with exponential of LLMs
Products with extensive/rich UIs lots of sliders, switches, menus, with no scripting support, and built on opaque, custom, binary formats are ngmi in the era of heavy human+AI collaboration. If an LLM can't read the underlying representations and manipulate them and all of the…
Fun night chatting about the future of agents & security. Clear that the identity challenges are real, present, and blocking real deployments.
Packed house for #NYTechWeek discussion Cyber Landscape - Impact of Agentic AI on enterprise security with @ianlivingstone @KeycardLabs hosted by @Boldstartvc & friends @EvolutionEquity Syn Ventures @GundersonLaw
Exclusive: In a "brutal" fundraising environment, emerging manager face an uphill battle. For Amanda Robson, known as Robby, the answer was two-fold: the power of community 🤝 and a relentlessly high-energy approach ⚡️ Now she's raised a $22M debut fund for her VC firm MTF.
The first rule of agent centric infrastructure: it’s an MCP wrapper.
🚨 LAUNCH WEEK IS HERE 🚨 Watch Sammy, Co-Founder & CEO of Eventual, kick off an exciting week. We’ve rebranded. Rebuilt. Reimagined Daft. getdaft.io 🧠 Faster docs ⚡️ Cleaner UX 📦 Ready for AI workloads at scale Try out Daft today: pip install daft