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Sam Alba

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Co-Founder of @dagger.io; ex-Docker Engineering https://samalba.com

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You just missed the hint

08.08.2025 03:34 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Imagine your project becomes the most popular on GitHub overnight.

Now you’re dealing with 1,000 PRs a day.

Welcome to the age of AI contributors.

Don’t panic β€” @kylepenfound.com has some thoughts on how to survive the feedback loop flood and level up your CI.

dagger.io/blog/evoluti...

01.08.2025 15:37 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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πŸ› οΈ Expose your code as LLM’s Tools
πŸ” Watch Agents use them via Dagger Cloud Traces
πŸ“ˆ Test their behavior with Evals as Code

The Evaluator module from Dagger makes it all work in CI

Read the blog β†’ dagger.io/blog/evals-a...

04.08.2025 19:13 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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AI Agents Need Help. Here's 4 Ways To Ship Software Reliably As Alex on the Dagger team likes to say: No matter the model or framework, you can’t outrun prompt engineering.

As Alex on the @dagger.io team likes to say: No matter the model or framework, you can’t outrun prompt engineering.

By Dagger Co-Founder & VP of Engineering @samalba.com

30.07.2025 02:00 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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AI Agents Need Help. Here's 4 Ways To Ship Software Reliably As Alex on the Dagger team likes to say: No matter the model or framework, you can’t outrun prompt engineering.

As Alex on the @dagger.io team likes to say: No matter the model or framework, you can’t outrun prompt engineering.

By Dagger Co-Founder & VP of Engineering @samalba.com

29.07.2025 17:30 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Pas captΓ©, c’est ton chat et c’est de l’AI?

18.06.2025 12:48 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Introducing container use for agents.

Go from babysitting one agent at a time to enabling many agents to work safely and independently with your preferred stack.

github.com/dagger/conta...

05.06.2025 17:39 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Best way to prepare for a #kubecon talk?

Partying in super good companyπŸ₯³
(yes, I know, this would be worth the travel alone)

#dreams #drinks #containerhistory

04.04.2025 08:09 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Alright, everything's ready @dagger.io! Let my #kubecon begin 🦾

Don't forget to come say hi after my #interLink lightining talk (just before the Dagger hack night!)

l.infn.it/1du

01.04.2025 06:10 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Also, LLM support is shipping with Dagger 0.17, we'll share more of this soon!

20.03.2025 21:28 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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GitHub - samalba/agents Contribute to samalba/agents development by creating an account on GitHub.

Check this out: this Pull Request (github.com/samalba/demo...) was written by a modelβ€”it scanned the repo, optimized the Dockerfile, and opened a PR on its own. Then another AI agent jumped in and reviewed the changes (the second comment). It’s open if you’re curious: github.com/samalba/agents.

20.03.2025 21:28 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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GitHub - samalba/agents Contribute to samalba/agents development by creating an account on GitHub.

Hey there πŸ‘‹ Just wanted to share a fun experiment I’ve been playing around with at Dagger. We hooked up our entire Container API to LLMs, and they’ve been doing some mind-blowing stuff... 🧡

20.03.2025 21:27 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Anyone tried Windsurf IDE for AI? I am hearing Cursor is now old school. I officially became an old man.

11.03.2025 17:12 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Just like we containerized webapps, we'll have to containerize AI agents... but how? What first principles led to containers in the first place, and how do they transpose to LLMs?

This was my first talk at an AI meetup, but I doubt it will be the last!

youtu.be/XWO_3My2eVU?...

16.02.2025 23:11 πŸ‘ 23 πŸ” 11 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 2
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We replaced our React frontend with Go + WebAssembly! Learn how: dagger.io/blog/replace...

10.02.2025 22:27 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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GPUs in CI/CD are challengingβ€”high costs, low utilization, and complex setups.

Dagger + @fly.io, Lambda Labs, and Ollama make it easy with on-demand GPU workflows, cost-saving caching, and seamless pipelines.

See it in action: dagger.io/blog/gpu-cha...

28.01.2025 23:21 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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You can now run Dagger on GitHub Actions blazing-fast distributed cachingβ€”no self-hosted runners needed. A one-line change unlocks faster builds and seamless performance thanks to the new Dagger Powered program and our friends at Depot!

✨See how simple it is here: dagger.io/blog/dagger-...

15.01.2025 17:00 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

My take away from the article is that an "agent" is a long-running workflow.

09.01.2025 18:52 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Sure, like containers, frameworks, testing libraries, etc... It's all software indeed. The term "agent" is confusing though, "AI workflow" is more accurate to my developer mind.

09.01.2025 18:15 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Sam Alba: from Docker to Dagger
Sam Alba: from Docker to Dagger YouTube video by Barton George

I spent some time with @barton808.bsky.social at KubeCon going over my past at Docker, how we came across several technology and teams challenges, and how it became the foundation to build @dagger.io - If you're curious here is the full recording: www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHHa...

09.12.2024 21:01 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1
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CI/CD workflows shouldn’t feel like a gamble. On the Platform Engineering Podcast, @shykes.bsky.social discusses:

β€’Tackling "push & pray" in pipelines
β€’Building modular, scalable workflows
β€’The evolution of DevOps & software factories

πŸŽ™οΈ Tune in: https://buff.ly/4gkPVZE

16.12.2024 19:00 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Dagger.io Powerful, programmable CI/CD engine that runs your pipelines in containers β€” pre-push on your local machine and/or post-push in CI

I've gone the dagger.io route for project specific tooling and generally containerized setups, for both building and as a containerized task engine

11.12.2024 23:51 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I really enjoyed my conversation w/ @samalba.com we cover a lot of ground - how Docker was the result of a pivot away from PaaS, the challenges of scaling startups, the importance of team culture
and finding the right VC, and how an rigorous discovery process led to Dagger and pipeline as a service

10.12.2024 06:51 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Haha! TIL I have a signature laugh! I love it 🀣

09.12.2024 22:58 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Sam Alba: from Docker to Dagger
Sam Alba: from Docker to Dagger YouTube video by Barton George

I spent some time with @barton808.bsky.social at KubeCon going over my past at Docker, how we came across several technology and teams challenges, and how it became the foundation to build @dagger.io - If you're curious here is the full recording: www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHHa...

09.12.2024 21:01 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

Tomorrow 9am PT, Noon ET, 6pm CET.

04.12.2024 22:08 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Want to see some GPU-magic with Dagger, Ollama and Fly? Tomorrow 9am, streamed on youtube, linkedin. And recorded in case you cannot attend live.

04.12.2024 22:07 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I strongly recommend watching the documentary β€œBuy Now!” on Netflix - very well made and very informative. It’ll make you think twice about buying the new iPhone or a pair of shoes.

03.12.2024 06:16 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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A Go package for building Progressive Web Apps A package for building progressive web apps (PWA) with the Go programming language (Golang) and WebAssembly (Wasm). It uses a declarative syntax that allows creating and dealing with HTML elements onl...

We recently started to use go-app.dev at @dagger.io. The goal was to have more control on the performance and share more code with the rest of the Go codebase. And it seems to have solved the problem you mentioned at the same time.

16.11.2024 19:20 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Don’t get me wrong, meeting people at #KubeCon is cool, but also important: renew stickers on the laptop πŸ’»

16.11.2024 19:10 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0