*️⃣ Galvanized

On June 30th, 2025, I started working at Stainless as a part-time contractor. A couple months later, on August 21st, I joined the team full-time.

Today, on May 18th, Stainless announced they've been acquired by Anthropic. See also: Anthropic's announcement.

Given how I feel about generative AI, I declined the opportunity to join Anthropic. I wish all of my former colleagues the very best regardless of where they landed, and I'm looking forward to hearing about their new adventures and endeavors.

Stainless was a truly great place to work. Alex Rattray was the best founder anyone could ask for, and he assembled an incredible team. Everyone there—every single person—was incredibly capable and incredibly kind. I'm honored, humbled, and privileged to have been a small part of that team and the work we did.

As for what's next for me, I'm looking forward to taking a break. We've been renting and moving around for many, many years, but early this year we finally bought our we're-going-to-be-here-for-decades house. I'm really looking forward to taking some time to make it our home. As I arrange furniture and turn screws I'll have a background process running to figure out what's next career-wise.

I'm also looking forward to blogging more. With my newly refined blogging setup, its lower friction authoring process, and more free time, expect the frequency of my posts to increase.

My sincere and heartfelt thanks go out to Alex and every member of the Stainless team. It was a lot of fun to work on a small team at a startup for a little while, and I'm sure it's quite possible some of us will work together again in the future.