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co-founder at CoPlane (https://coplane.com)

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vimota··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2026)
CoPlane (https://coplane.com/) | Product Engineer | NYC (preferred) or Remote (North America) | Full Time

The world doesn't need another ERP. CoPlane is building the Agentic Orchestration platform that enables enterprises to orchestrate intelligent processes across their existing systems. Founded by ex-Stripe/Segment product and tech leads, we're changing how businesses operate their backoffice - helping them scale intelligence not headcount.

We're looking for an exceptional product engineer to grow our small team of engineers that include ex-founders, open source contributors (authors of neovim and neverthrow), and architects of petabyte-scale data platforms.

We are looking for someone that wants to own product features end to end (Python + Typescript/React) but is particularly spiky on frontend and UI. You'll build a platform for billion-dollar enterprises solving their hardest, most mission-critical automation problems.

If you're excited about working at the nexus of data, automation and AI, and want to make a significant impact in an early, well-capitalized startup with large enterprise design partners, we'd love to hear from you.

Roles: Product Engineer.

For more info and to apply: https://coplane.com/careers

vimota··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2026)
CoPlane (https://coplane.com/) | Product Engineer | NYC (preferred) or Remote (North America) | Full Time

The world doesn't need another ERP. CoPlane is building the Agentic Orchestration platform that enables enterprises to orchestrate intelligent processes across their existing systems. Founded by ex-Stripe/Segment product and tech leads, we're changing how businesses operate their backoffice - helping them scale intelligence not headcount.

We're looking for an exceptional product engineer to grow our small team of engineers that include ex-founders, open source contributors (authors of neovim and neverthrow), and architects of petabyte-scale data platforms.

We are looking for someone that wants to own product features end to end (Python + Typescript/React) but is particularly spiky on frontend and UI. You'll build a platform for billion-dollar enterprises solving their hardest, most mission-critical automation problems.

If you're excited about working at the nexus of data, automation and AI, and want to make a significant impact in an early, well-capitalized startup with large enterprise design partners, we'd love to hear from you.

Roles: Product Engineer.

For more info and to apply: https://coplane.com/careers

vimota··on Launch HN: Freestyle – Sandboxes for Coding Agents
This is awesome - the snapshotting especially is critical for long running agents. Since we run agents in a durable execution harness (similar to Temporal / DBOS) we needed a sandboxing approach that would snapshot the state after every execution in order to be able to restore and replay on any failure.

We ended up creating localsandbox [0] with that in mind by using AgentFS for filesystem snapshotting, but our solution is meant for a different use case than Freestyle - simpler FS + code execution for agents all done locally. Since we're not running a full OS it's much less capable but also simpler for lots of use cases where we want the agent execution to happen locally.

The ability to fork is really interesting - the main use case I could imagine is for conversations that the user forks or parallel sub-agents. Have you seen other use cases?

[0] https://github.com/coplane/localsandbox

vimota··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2026)
CoPlane (https://coplane.com/) | Forward Deployed Engineer | NYC | Full Time

The world doesn't need another ERP. CoPlane is building the Agentic Orchestration platform that enables enterprises to orchestrate intelligent processes across their existing systems. Founded by ex-Stripe/Segment product and tech leads, we're changing how businesses operate their backoffice - helping them scale intelligence not headcount.

We're looking for exceptional forward deployed engineers to grow our small team that include ex-founders, open source contributors (authors of neovim and neverthrow), and architects of petabyte-scale data platforms.

You'll work with billion-dollar enterprises transforming their finance, accounting, and operations processes with AI-powered automation. This role combines technical problem solving with strategic thinking and requires strong client-facing skills.

If you're excited about working at the nexus of data, automation and AI, and want to make a significant impact in an early, well-capitalized startup with large enterprise customers, we'd love to hear from you.

Roles: Forward Deployed Engineer

For more info and to apply: https://coplane.com/careers

vimota··on Show HN: Amla Sandbox – WASM bash shell sandbox for AI agents
Thanks for taking a look and the feedback! We run the shim with internet access (https://github.com/coplane/localsandbox/blob/main/localsandb...) but the pyodide sandbox itself doesn't run with internet access : https://github.com/coplane/localsandbox/blob/main/localsandb...
vimota··on Show HN: Amla Sandbox – WASM bash shell sandbox for AI agents
Simon - would love if you could take a look at Localsandbox (https://github.com/coplane/localsandbox) - it was partly inspired by your Pyodide post!
vimota··on Show HN: Amla Sandbox – WASM bash shell sandbox for AI agents
Sharing our version of this built on just-bash, AgentFS, and Pyodide: https://github.com/coplane/localsandbox

One nice thing about using AgentFS as the VFS is that it's backed by sqlite so it's very portable - making it easy to fork and resume agent workflows across machines / time.

I really like Amla Sandbox addition of injecting tool calls into the sandbox, which lets the agent generated code interact with the harness provided tools. Very interesting!

vimota··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2026)
CoPlane (https://coplane.com/) | Design Engineer | NYC or Remote (North America) | Full Time

The world doesn't need another ERP. CoPlane is building the Agentic Orchestration platform that enables enterprises to orchestrate intelligent processes across their existing systems. Founded by ex-Stripe/Segment product and tech leads, we're changing how businesses operate their backoffice - helping them scale intelligence not headcount.

We're looking for an exceptional design engineer to grow our small team of engineers that include ex-founders, open source contributors (authors of neovim and neverthrow), and architects of petabyte-scale data platforms. You'll work with billion-dollar enterprises solving their hardest, most mission-critical automation problems.

If you're excited about working at the nexus of data, automation and AI, and want to make a significant impact in an early, well-capitalized startup with large enterprise design partners, we'd love to hear from you.

Roles: Product/Design Engineer.

For more info and to apply: https://coplane.com/careers

vimota··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2025)
CoPlane (https://coplane.com/) | Product/Design Engineer + Designer | NYC or Remote (North America) | Full Time

The world doesn't need another ERP. CoPlane is building the Agentic Orchestration platform that enables enterprises to orchestrate intelligent processes across their existing systems. Founded by ex-Stripe/Segment product and tech leads, we're changing how businesses operate their backoffice - helping them scale intelligence not headcount.

We're looking for exceptional engineers to grow our small founding team of engineers that include ex-founders, open source contributors (authors of neovim and neverthrow), and architects of petabyte-scale data platforms. You'll work with billion-dollar enterprises solving their hardest, most mission-critical automation problems.

If you're excited about working at the nexus of data, automation and AI, and want to make a significant impact in an early, well-capitalized startup with large enterprise design partners, we'd love to hear from you.

Roles: Product/Design Engineer and Designer.

For more info and to apply: https://coplane.com/careers

vimota··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2025)
CoPlane (https://coplane.com/) | Product/Design Engineer + Designer | Remote (North America) or NYC | Full Time

The world doesn't need another ERP. CoPlane is building the Agentic Orchestration platform that enables enterprises to orchestrate intelligent processes across their existing systems. Founded by ex-Stripe/Segment product and tech leads, we're changing how businesses operate their backoffice - helping them scale intelligence not headcount.

We're looking for exceptional engineers to grow our small founding team of engineers that include ex-founders, open source contributors (authors of neovim and neverthrow), and architects of petabyte-scale data platforms. You'll work with billion-dollar enterprises solving their hardest, most mission-critical automation problems.

If you're excited about working at the nexus of data, automation and AI, and want to make a significant impact in an early, well-capitalized startup with large enterprise design partners, we'd love to hear from you.

Roles: Product/Design Engineer and Designer.

For more info and to apply: https://coplane.com/careers

vimota··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2025)
CoPlane (https://coplane.com/) | Infra (BYOC) Platform Eng and Product/Design Engineer | Remote (North America) or NYC | Full Time

The world doesn't need another ERP. CoPlane is building the Agentic Orchestration platform that enables enterprises to orchestrate intelligent processes across their existing systems. Founded by ex-Stripe/Segment product and tech leads, we're changing how businesses operate their backoffice - helping them scale intelligence not headcount.

We're looking for exceptional engineers to grow our small founding team of engineers that include ex-founders, open source contributors (authors of neovim and neverthrow), and architects of petabyte-scale data platforms. You'll work with billion-dollar enterprises solving their hardest, most mission-critical automation problems.

If you're excited about working at the nexus of data, automation and AI, and want to make a significant impact in an early, well-capitalized startup with large enterprise design partners, we'd love to hear from you.

Roles: Platform Engineer (Infra), and Product/Design Engineer.

For more info and to apply: https://coplane.com/careers

vimota··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2025)
CoPlane (https://coplane.com/) | Founding Software Engineers | Remote (US/CAN Timezones) | Full Time

The world doesn't need another ERP. CoPlane is building the Agentic Orchestration platform that enables enterprises to orchestrate intelligent processes across their existing systems. Founded by ex-Stripe/Segment product and tech leads, we're changing how businesses operate their backoffice - helping them scale intelligence not headcount.

We're looking for exceptional engineers to grow our small founding team of engineers that include ex-founders, open source contributors (authors of neovim and neverthrow), and architects of petabyte-scale data platforms. You'll work with billion-dollar enterprises solving their hardest, most mission-critical automation problems.

If you're excited about working at the nexus of data, automation and AI, and want to make a significant impact in an early, well-capitalized startup with large enterprise design partners, we'd love to hear from you.

Roles: Platform Engineer (Infra), Product Engineer and Forward Deployed AI Engineer.

For more info and to apply: https://coplane.com/careers

vimota··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2025)
CoPlane (https://coplane.com/) | Founding Software Engineers | Remote (US/CAN Timezones) | Full Time

The world doesn't need another ERP. CoPlane is building the Agentic Orchestration platform that enables enterprises to orchestrate intelligent processes across their existing systems. Founded by ex-Stripe/Segment product and tech leads, we're changing how businesses operate their backoffice - helping them scale intelligence not headcount.

We're looking for exceptional engineers to grow our small founding team of engineers that include ex-founders, open source contributors (authors of neverthrow and neovim), and architects of petabyte-scale data platforms. You'll work with billion-dollar enterprises solving their hardest, most mission-critical automation problems.

If you're excited about working at the nexus of data, finance and AI, and want to make a significant impact in an early, well-capitalized startup with large enterprise design partners, we'd love to hear from you.

Roles: Platform Engineer, Product Engineer and Forward Deployed AI Engineer.

For more info and to apply: https://coplane.com/careers

vimota··on Ask HN: Cursor or Windsurf?
I gave Zed an in-depth trial this week and wrote about it here: https://x.com/vimota/status/1921270079054049476

Overall Zed is super nice and opposite of janky, but still found a few of defaults were off and Python support still was missing in a few key ways for my daily workflow.

vimota··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2024)
CoPlane (https://coplane.com/) | Founding Software Engineers | Remote (US Timezones) | Full Time

CoPlane is building the data plane for trusted trade, deploying Stripe-caliber data and financial infrastructure for US industrial leaders. Founded by ex-Stripe/Segment product and tech leads, we're modernizing supply chain finance starting with AP automation.

We're looking for exceptional, agentic engineers to join our founding team. You'll work on mission-critical systems that will reshape how global enterprises manage their finances and supply chains.

If you're excited about working at the nexus of data and finance, and want to make a significant impact in an early, well-capitalized startup with large enterprise design partners, we'd love to hear from you.

Reach out to us at founders@

vimota··on Py2wasm – A Python to WASM Compiler
> We worked on py2wasm to fulfill our own needs first, as we want to accelerate Python execution to the maximum, so we can move our Python Django backend from Google Cloud into Wasmer Edge.

I was under the impression that Django was stateful and not meant to be run in a serverless/edge cloud. Is that not the case or are you planning to do a special setup to support that?

vimota··on Ask HN: What's a batteries-included framework that's React-first?
Deno's Fresh is certainly a cool project! But I would say it's even further on the NextJS/bare-bones side of the spectrum.
vimota··on Ask HN: What's a batteries-included framework that's React-first?
There's a clear philosophical difference between a framework like NextJS and Rails/Django/Laravel. The former takes the approach of expecting users to integrate various third party libraries (ie. Prisma, PassportJS, ReactAdmin, etc) while the latter has it a lot of features built in as framework primitives and defaults.

Some of those features: * ORM and DB migrations * Auth * Admin interface * Form handling and validation * Email sending * Background jobs

Which is why you end up needing so many different SaaS templates for Nextjs that tie all these different libraries together into a pre-built package.

vimota··on Ask HN: What's a batteries-included framework that's React-first?
inertiajs.com is one interesting approach to solving this by making React work somewhat natively in Rails/Laravel/Django - are there others?
vimota··on Ottawa to create regulator to hold platforms accountable for harmful content
The difference are that all of those are pre-determined, so you know what violates the rule. Holding platforms accountable for "harmful" content is much more subjective and case-by-case than a speed limit, drinking and driving and ingredient rules.
vimota··on I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA
Is there any path for a founder from Canada to move to the US by being employed by their company under a TN visa - especially if they don't believe they can prove O1 requirements? Why is the O1 preferred (other than permanence)?
vimota··on Autogen: Enable next-gen large language model applications
Given we know different prompts perform better on different tasks (via evals, papers, etc), you can think of multiple agents interacting (especially when there's a specialized "router" or orchestrator) as sub problems of a larger task being solved by "agents" specialized for that task - prompts + context crafted for that sub-problem.
vimota··on RAG at scale: Synchronizing and ingesting billions of text embeddings
Similar to you, for polling you only see new data not the deletion events so I can't delete embeddings unless I keep track of state and do a diff. To properly support that you/I would need effectively CDC, which gets more complex for arbitrary / self-serve databases.
vimota··on RAG at scale: Synchronizing and ingesting billions of text embeddings
Thanks for writing this up! I'm working on a very similar service (https://embeddingsync.com/) and I implemented almost the same as you've described here, but using a poll-based stateful workflow model instead of queueing.

The biggest challenge - which I haven't solved as seamlessly as I'd like - is supporting updates / deletes in the source. You don't seem to discuss it in this post, does Neum handle that?

vimota··on Federal study links testicular cancer to ‘forever chemicals’
Two years ago I became really interested in optimizing testosterone levels naturally and one of the things that kept coming up in research was the impact of EDCs (Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals) on fertility, cancer, hormone health and testosterone and just how prevalent they are in all our products (clothes use PFAS as water repellent / stain resistance, soaps and creams use parabens as preservatives, anything that has a scent typically uses pthalates for the smell to last longer, etc) .

My girlfriend, who has a background in environmental science and skincare, also got interested in this and ended up starting a personal care brand focused on being 100% free of Endocrine Disruptors / forever chemicals: https://olivercare.co/.

I truly believe as more studies continue to come out strengthening the connection between these chemicals and the long term health and fertility risks, consumers and brands are going to shift to safer alternatives. In fact, there's a chance that "forever chemical" lawsuits end up being bigger than the famous Big Tobacco settlement: https://time.com/6292482/legal-liability-pfas-chemicals-laws... .

vimota··on Introducing Superalignment
Although I'm optimistic about this, a line popped out in the blog post stuck out to me: "deliberately training misaligned models".

I'm guessing they mean misaligned small or weak models, and misaligned in a non-dangerous way - but the idea of training models whose goal is adversarial brings to mind the idea of gain-of-function research.

vimota··on Twitter now requires an account to view tweets
There's a good chance this is in response to scrapping caused by them suddenly deprepcating the /follows + /followers API : https://twitter.com/thomasschulzz/status/1674881114773815296...
vimota··on Service Weaver: A Framework for Writing Distributed Applications
Unison lang has a lot of overlap with model: https://www.unison-lang.org/learn/the-big-idea/
vimota··on Using GPT3, Supabase and Pinecone to automate a personalized marketing campaign
This is great, thanks!
vimota··on Using GPT3, Supabase and Pinecone to automate a personalized marketing campaign
Appreciate the kind words, but I'm sure you could pick it up pretty quickly too :) The OpenAI docs are pretty helpful as a starting point: https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/embeddings/use-cases
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