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Your Second Agent Is the Hard One
Going from one agent to many does not multiply what you can do. It moves every failure into the space between them.
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Pratik
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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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React / Next.js92%
Node.js / Bun90%
AWS / Cloud / Infra92%
AI / ML / LLMs88%
Python / Go85%
Blockchain / Web385%
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Trust Comes From the Trace
You bounded what your agent can touch, gave it an undo button, and taught it when to ask. But when it does something surprising, can you reconstruct exactly why? That is the observability gap.
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Teach Your Agent to Ask for Help
Full autonomy is the wrong goal. The best agents know exactly when to stop and hand the decision back to you.
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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.
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Agents Fail Quietly
A passing test and a working workflow are not the same thing. The gap between them is where production breaks.
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Let's connect
Always open to interesting conversations and building things that matter. Based in Washington, DC.
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