Jake Cooper

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Latent Space: The AI Engineer Podcast · Railway: The Agent-Native Cloud — Jake Cooper · 20 May 2026 podcast

I'm kind of coming to this thesis, which is,

you need three points, essentially, which is you need a clear spec of what defines the system, you need the code, and then you need the tests, right?

And I think when you say this thesis out loud, it's like, well, if you've been in engineering for any amount of time, you're like, well, no, like, yeah, of course, like, that's a RFC, like a request for comment, that's tests, and that's your code, right?

But they all matter a lot, and having them all be actually together so that they can reinforce each other and say, well, the spec and the tests match, but the code doesn't.

Let me reconcile that.

Oh, okay.

Yeah.

now the tests and the spec match, let me go and reconcile this other thing, right?

And you can kind of move through that period of basically saying, well, this is fuzzy and these two are either discrete in the case of tests or slightly fuzzy, slightly discrete in the case of code, right?

And that's kind of your iteration loop.

I think that's also incidentally where you're seeing a lot of people be like,

software factories and I want to write this doc and like how to go and reconcile all this other stuff, which I think is a bit of architectural astronomy if you like don't actually go in and implement it.

But I do think generally that's kind of that loop is kind of where most things are going to ultimately end up.

Yeah, it's nuts.

We have a loop that I've kind of set up, which is you put the railway CLI on top of something that runs on top of railway, right?

And so you're essentially authenticated as whatever the current box is in general, and you can make any sort of changes to it.

And then you just call railway deploy, and it deploys itself.

Right.

Like it's just like, oh, cool.

I need to go and spin up this instance of this environment.

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