2026.087 min#ai#agents
The Handoff Is Where Agents Break
You debug the agent that produced the bad output. The bug was in the message it got handed.
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Pratik
Patel
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Technology executive and hands-on architect with 11+ years building and scaling engineering organizations. Three-time company builder with a successful acquisition under the belt.
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About me
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Technology executive and hands-on architect with 11+ years building and scaling engineering organizations and shipping products to hundreds of thousands of users.
Three-time company builder: grew a 30-person engineering org at AWS, co-founded and sold a blockchain studio via acquisition by Dapper Labs, and took a healthtech startup from napkin sketch to 50K+ users as founding CTO.
Currently Chief Architect at Tarobase (poof.new), building AI-powered tools for vibe-coded dApps. Proven ability to set technical strategy, recruit world-class teams, and raise venture capital.
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TypeScript / JavaScript95%
React / Next.js92%
Node.js / Bun90%
AWS / Cloud / Infra92%
AI / ML / LLMs88%
Python / Go85%
Blockchain / Web385%
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Selected writing
2026.076 min#ai#agents
Give Your Agent an Undo Button
You can bound what an agent touches and measure when it fails. Neither one saves you if the mistake it makes cannot be taken back.
2026.087 min#ai#hiring
The Entry-Level Job Is the Canary
The most-cited number about AI and jobs is real, and almost everyone repeats it wrong. Here is what the Stanford paper actually found, what its authors refuse to claim, and the one fact in it worth building a hiring plan on.
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Let's connect
Always open to interesting conversations and building things that matter. Based in Washington, DC.