Jake Cooper

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

It's like the way that I kind of like would describe it is like, well, it's a jet engine.

Right.

Like if you know how to like go in and operate, if you know how to go in and run it, all of those other things.

Right.

But you can't hand it to anyone.

people who are trying to build things that end up being complicated, but don't have that whole kind of like state in their head, right?

So if you have a large, like we run our whole deployment pipeline on top of it, right?

And so that's like a reasonably complicated workflow, right?

Like there's pre-commit hooks, there's like signaling, there's queuing, there's like all of this other stuff in general, right?

And we kind of ran into the same thing at Uber where like, as you try to express this large workflow, as you mentioned, like going all the way down,

got more and more complicated and it got more and more states in the state machine that you had to, like, map the state machine back to, like, the workflow.

It's a lot of ifs, right?

If this, if that.

Yeah, and so at Uber, we built a system for, you know, doing the state machine and, like, testing the state machine and all that other stuff.

And we've started to, like, go and build some of those things here because, like, it's grown, you know, quite heavily, right?

But it's, like...

It's such a like – I don't want to say love-hate relationship because that's like too broad in general.

Like when it works really, really well, it works like super, super well, right?

But then you run into a spot where you just like somebody who hasn't interacted with the system or doesn't have the full context of the system goes and puts something in the system that invalidates some of the state or causes a non-determinism issue or spins off a ton of activities or anything else like that.

And then you have to kind of keep track of like –

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