vampiregrey
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Building for passion
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Comment · 2 months ago
Backend/infra engineer, was employee ~10 at a startup that grew to 500, want to do it again
I joined a startup when it was about 10 people and stayed through the growth to roughly 500. Most of that time I was on backend and infra.
Right now I'm at a large enterprise. I've learned a lot about systems that have to survive years and many owners, but I miss being able to ship something on a Tuesday because it needed to exist.
Stuff I've built: backend services and the infra, scraping and automation pipelines, AI-driven outreach and data enrichment.
Looking for seed to Series A, small team, close to the founders.
Location: Remote, or Open for Relocation
Portfolio/Resume: https://zerobitflip.com
Email: [email protected]
Comment · 6 months ago
I've been using Claude Code as my primary agent orchestration tool for a few weeks now. Running cron-style loops for browser automation through a remote Playwright instance. Haven't tried Codex at this depth yet, but from what I've seen it's more focused on code generation while Claude Code is more of a general-purpose agent runtime. The things that make Claude Code powerful for me are the persistent session with tool access, the ability to run background tasks on schedules, and the hook/skill system for customization. If Codex matches that plus adds better async execution (Claude Code's scheduled tasks die when the session ends), it could be compelling. But for now Claude Code handles my use case better than anything else I've tried.
Comment · 6 months ago
Interesting approach. I've been running a similar setup using Slack as the control plane for browser automation agents. The main challenge with messaging apps as control planes is handling long-running tasks and state management. Telegram's bot API is actually nicer than Slack's for this since you get more granular message editing.