Kyle Galbraith

Kyle Galbraith

@kylegalbraith.dev

Co-Founder of depot.dev | he/him Expat living in 🇫🇷

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Every airport security line has totally different rules about laptops, coats and shoes and every airport security person acts like you're a moron for not knowing their obvious, simple rules.

Look, if you're going to create an AI agent product designer, your landing page better be unbelievably good for me to even consider your offering. But I literally clicked the video to watch your demo, and it didn't even open centered in the window.

Step 1: Raise $13B Step 2: Spend it all on GPUs from NVIDIA Step 3: NVIDIA invests in more AI companies Step 4: Repeat until someone builds AGI or we all go broke This is totally fine. We're all fine.

GitHub's observability for Actions is about as useful as a chocolate teapot. Launching some actual debugging tools this week that might prevent you from rage-quitting your CI setup. Details coming soon. 🛠️

Conversation last night taught me something important about AI tools & enterprise adoption. It's not about the coolest features. It's answering "what happens when this goes wrong?" Cursor, Claude Code, etc., might be magic, but magic without guardrails doesn't pass enterprise security reviews.

One year ago, Depot was a team of three people in total. Scaled the business to a $1M in ARR back then. Today, we are now at 9 people in total, and the revenue growth hasn't stopped. Exciting times on the horizon ⚡

The most dangerous advice in startups: "fake it till you make it" Fake confidence? Sure. Fake expertise? Maybe. Fake your revenue numbers to investors? Enjoy prison. There's a difference between optimism and fraud. learn it.

Watching founders stress about product market fit when they haven't shipped anything yet is wild. You can't find PMF if you never actually ship the thing. Ship the broken thing. Let people tell you it sucks. Iterate. Analysis paralysis isn't strategy, it's procrastination with a business plan.

Standing out and being different is exponentially better than trying to copy someone else. People don't give a shit about copy cats. They care about authenticity and being different.

We see a ton of new folks coming to Depot because of our Build API ⚡ So, as is tradition, the team wrote a post on how you can build untrusted container images at scale using our API in Go. It's really awesome to see how far this use case has come. Full post here

depot.devContainer security at scale: Building untrusted images safelyMany SaaS platforms need to run customer code securely and fast. Rather than building container infrastructure from scratch, you can use Depot's API to handle the heavy lifting. Here's how to build…

We just shipped Egress Filter for GitHub Actions Runners 🚀 🔒 You can now lock down the network rules for communication outside of the runner to have tighter control around what the job is allowed to talk out to. Here is how it works 👉 depot.dev/blog/now-ava...

depot.devNow available: Egress filtering for GitHub Actions RunnersWe're excited to launch egress filtering for Depot GitHub Actions Runners. This gives you fine-grained control over which external services your runners can talk to so you can tighten security…

We went and made our Gocache support in Depot Cache 4x faster ⚡ The secret sauce? Batching 👇 In our builds of @tailscale.com, we went from those builds being 22% faster with v1 Depot Cache for Go to those builds being 4x faster with v2. Check out the full details: depot.dev/blog/now-ava...

depot.devNow available: Gocache v2 for improved Golang build performanceWe’re excited to announce Gocache v2, a major step forward in build caching for Go developers. Gocache v2 dramatically reduces build times by efficiently bundling and caching compile and test…

Apparently, I'll be back in London the first week of July. Who is around and wants to grab coffee? Or who has an office that we can come work from? I will supply food and beverages 😂

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Even @Google VEO3 feels the pain of slow CI/CD. Prompt: "Show me what it feels like to wait for a slow CI/CD pipeline" #GoogleVEO3 #CICD #Developer

I think a lot back to the 2018-2019 era when a lot of talk about DevOps centered on how tools would lead the culture change. I think that has played out quite well over time. Tools across infrastructure, observability, production monitoring, and more have made the adoption of DevOps far more common.

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With Depot, we're building a suite of tools that reimagines what it looks like to build software. Doing away with the old and dated things that inherently drag build performance down and frustrate developers.

Imagine a world where we make all builds near instant. What kind of engineering culture change does that provoke? One where developers and AI agents can create features, ship bug fixes, and innovate at a velocity that is 30x faster than we do today. Tools are going to lead the culture change.

I think a lot back to the 2018-2019 era when a lot of talk about DevOps centered on how tools would lead the culture change. I think that has played out quite well over time. Tools across infrastructure, observability, production monitoring, and more have made the adoption of DevOps far more common.

I think about it a lot because, to me, we're at the same point in time as it relates to delivery pipelines, build performance, and even AI agents. The tools we create are going to lead to the culture change.

GitHub Actions is experiencing long queue times this morning. But Depot is processing jobs at normal queue time rates 🙂 Essentially, GitHub Actions can have a webhook & queue time related outage, but Depot stays online to process your jobs 💡 If you wanna switch 👉 depot.dev

To all the investors that say, "we're value add investors". You better follow the example our Depot angel investors set. This is the value you should add. If you're not with us telling everyone you know that their builds could be exponentially faster, you're not adding enough value.

Them: What do you plan to do with the $200M you're raising? Me: Expand our gtm with additional marketing. Them: So like hiring someone? Me: No. Better. I'm going to save the world's eyes from this abomination.

This post is deeeeeep in the weeds. My head hurts.

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Depot builds Depot. So we made our own EC2 instances boot faster. From killing snap to tweaking fstab and skipping fsck, we shaved boot time from 4s to 2.8s. Faster boots = faster builds. We documented every step. 👉 depot.dev/blog/acceler...

MCP servers are quite cool. I like the idea of exposing a set of tools to an external system that can then use them to craft valuable solutions. It may just be me, but it really seems like MCP servers are quite brittle at the moment.

I'm sure that's all being worked on, and probably a large chunk is user error over here. But it makes it hard to feel super confident that the whole thing isn't about to shift right out from under you.

I don't know how/where folks define "autonomous" when discussing AI. A lot of folks, I feel like, have said we aren't there yet. But I've seen quite a few recent examples from some really smart people who sure have created things that I believe to be autonomous.

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01001000 01100001 01110000 01110000 01111001 00100000 01001101 01101111 01110100 01101000 01100101 01110010 00100111 01110011 00100000 01000100 01100001 01111001 // Happy Mother’s Day, byte by byte. // For the one who's been debugging you since day one. // —Depot