CEO & Co-founder @ElectricSQL
Joined March 2009
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James Arthur retweeted
Jun 13
My Fable 5 moment was writing a new implementation of @DurableStreams in Rust with up to 181x speedup:
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James Arthur retweeted
Jun 12
If anyone's bummed you have nothing to do this weekend I have wonderful news 🥁
My TanStack course is up on Frontend Masters! 🚀
I hope there's value in it for those interested, and I hope you learn some cool shit about the most powerful web framework out there
Link below 👇
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James Arthur retweeted
Jun 12
need jepsen.io/ but for ai agents. everyone asks for reliability but I see a lot of hand waving, I need hard proofs.
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James Arthur retweeted
Jun 12
oss.chat now supports image generation and understanding. Uses the new Bun.Image to resize generated images on the server. Deployed to @prisma Compute and using @ElectricSQL Durable Streams for a super smooth token streaming experience.
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Jun 10
Forkable data infra for agents 🧐
electric.ax/blog/2026/04/15/…
Jun 9
Excited for this event tonight hosted by @PlanetScale and @TigrisData
Excited for @motatoeshq’s opencomputer.dev demo there!
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James Arthur retweeted
Jun 9
It’s about time we completed the story.
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James Arthur retweeted
Jun 6
Logs are all you need
Apr 29
Introducing Electric Agents!
Agents are not compute. Agents are data. Multi-agent is a sync problem. Electric Agents is the first agent platform built on sync.
Use it to build scalable, collaborative, long-lived multi-agent systems: 🧵👇
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James Arthur retweeted
agents are fundamentally a storage problem not even a compute problem
lots of people are paying VM prices for POSIX filesystem APIs when agents actually don't need either
agents don't see posix, they see tokens in / tokens out
The sandbox is a hack. LLMs got good at bash and grep, so they got their own computers. But most agent work is I/O. Move durability into the data layer and the loop becomes a cheap stateless function. That's the right primitive. So happy to see this.
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James Arthur retweeted
Jun 5
As the cost of inference comes down, we'll begin to realise that paying for a full sandbox for every user interaction is just too expensive. Electric is thinking about this the same way we are at Prisma.
Jun 4
Every major AI platform has now shipped managed agents. On the same sandbox-based architecture.
That architecture is wrong. Managed agents don't belong in sandboxes. They belong in functions 🧵👇
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James Arthur retweeted
Jun 4
Serverless agents with stateless logic. Durability in the data layer. Tool execution in backend systems.
That's how to build managed agents:
electric.ax/blog/2026/06/04/…
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James Arthur retweeted
Jun 4
Your agents don't live in a sandbox, they live in a function and a log.
Split state and compute.
We've built the architecture for the future of agentic software.
Jun 4
Every major AI platform has now shipped managed agents. On the same sandbox-based architecture.
That architecture is wrong. Managed agents don't belong in sandboxes. They belong in functions 🧵👇
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Jun 4
The world needs managed agents. The architecture for them is serverless.
Pull apart the harness. Run the agent logic in a function and wire the tool calls into your existing data platform and backend systems.
Jun 4
Every major AI platform has now shipped managed agents. On the same sandbox-based architecture.
That architecture is wrong. Managed agents don't belong in sandboxes. They belong in functions 🧵👇
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James Arthur retweeted
Jun 4
Every major AI platform has now shipped managed agents. On the same sandbox-based architecture.
That architecture is wrong. Managed agents don't belong in sandboxes. They belong in functions 🧵👇
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James Arthur retweeted
We're thrilled to announce our next speaker batch for Local-First Conf 2026.
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James Arthur retweeted
Jun 3
Elixir v1.20 released! Now officially a gradually typed language: Elixir type checks every single line of code, finding bugs and dead code, without developer overhead (no typing signatures) and extremely low false positives rate. Plus a faster compiler! Links and reports below.
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James Arthur retweeted
Jun 2
Sazabi is a next-generation observability platform designed for fast-moving, AI-native engineering teams.
If you're using Datadog, Sentry, Grafana, or Axiom today, you could be moving ten times faster with @sazabi.
Congrats on the launch, @shcallaway!
ycombinator.com/launches/QdT…
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James Arthur retweeted
Jun 3
A company just rolled out TanStack DB with offline transactions to 660k users of their mobile app!
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Agents as ecology.
Jun 2
Alan Kay's "objects as like biological cells and/or individual computers on a network" formulation of programming is gonna finally have its moment with agents.
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James Arthur retweeted
Jun 1
Confirmed rewrite with Tanstack and a bunch of data precaching. Great work Anthropic! Claude site is finally usable
Jun 1
Did they rewrite the Claude site? It seems way faster and easier to navigate
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