14.ai Dispatch #3
Hi friends,
This week at 14.ai: we hosted a sushi-fueled engineering night, finalized our next two events, and tried to answer the question, "What does it actually take to run agents in production without setting off metaphorical (or literal) fire alarms?"
We also learned that our chef intern Pinkie makes a mean Mediterranean bowl. More on that below.
Designing Reliable AI Support Workflows
Last time, we focused on writing prompts that don’t collapse under pressure. This time, we’re going deeper, into full workflows.
How do prompts, tools, and fallback logic combine to make something that actually works in the real world? We’ll break it down, step-by-step.
No vague vibes, just systems that don’t break.
June 25 · 9 am PT
Mediterranean Engineering Night
On July 9, we’re inviting 15 engineers to our HQ in Lower Haight for a night of technical deep dives and delicious dinner.
We’ll walk through how we use TypeScript and Effect to move from demos to robust, real-world deployments and how we keep things scalable and observable.
Mediterranean bowls courtesy of Pinkie. French herbal tea optional but encouraged.
Breakthrough Bistro: Founders Dinner
We’re co-hosting an intimate dinner on July 2 with Xavier (index.app, YC S22) for founders in San Francisco.
Colin (founder and CEO of Clerk) will share the behind-the-scenes story of building his company. Expect laughter, scars, and good wine.
Want to join? Reply and tell us a bit about what you’re building.
Sushi Engineering Night: recap
We hosted our first 14.ai engineering event at our HQ with discussion about agentic systems!
In case you missed it
Hosted advanced prompting workshop. See our Prompting Guide.
Calendly link to book time with the 14.ai team for a discovery call.
What NASA didn’t tell you about Apollo 11’s moon landing
July 20, 1969. After traveling 238,855 miles, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin touched down on the Moon in the Lunar Module “Eagle.”
They were actually on Slack the whole time. And we found the logs.
👨🚀 #moon-landing
𝗡𝗲𝗶𝗹 𝗔𝗿𝗺𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗴: @channel we are 30 seconds from touchdown. and fuel says we only have 17 seconds left...
𝗕𝘂𝘇𝘇 𝗔𝗹𝗱𝗿𝗶𝗻: ^^^ @Houston status??
𝗛𝗼𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗻: can we huddle real quick?
𝗠𝗶𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗲𝗹 𝗖𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗻𝘀: Just FYI I’m still orbiting. can take notes if helpful
🛰️ 3
𝗕𝘂𝘇𝘇 𝗔𝗹𝗱𝗿𝗶𝗻: service is shoddy. we’re bouncing off like five satellites right now
📡 4 | 😵 2
𝗡𝗲𝗶𝗹 𝗔𝗿𝗺𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗴: no it’s fine. I just landed it manually lmao. no thanks to this thread
𝗡𝗲𝗶𝗹 𝗔𝗿𝗺𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗴: @here TOUCHDOWN SUCCESSFUL
👍 12 | 🚀 7 | 🧠 1 | 💯 3
𝗦𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗸𝗯𝗼𝘁: 🎉 @Marketing has joined #moon-landing. Say hi!
𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗸𝗲𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴: 👋 quick ask - can we get a photo of the flag plant for social?
𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗸𝗲𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴: would be 🔥 for the “We Did It” campaign
📸 6 | 📈 2
𝗙𝗮𝗰𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻: I think the AC is broken again
𝗙𝗮𝗰𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻: oh sorry wrong channel
😬 6 | 🌕 3
𝗕𝘂𝘇𝘇 𝗔𝗹𝗱𝗿𝗶𝗻: bro we are not on Earth
💀 7
𝗟𝗲𝗴𝗮𝗹: please do NOT plant any flags until IP review is complete. the Moon is technically unclaimed territory
😬 2
𝗛𝗥: gentle reminder: “one small step for man” was not in the approved internal comms tone guide
𝗕𝘂𝘇𝘇 𝗔𝗹𝗱𝗿𝗶𝗻: tbh this whole thing could’ve been an email
💀 7 | 📬 2
Cool jobs at 14.ai (and friends)
Looking for a new gig? Here are some great roles from our orbit:
🛠️ Founding Engineer @ 14.ai (San Francisco)
🧑💻 Customer Support Engineer @ Together AI (San Francisco)
💬 Customer Success Specialist (Onboarding, AI) @ Toma (San Francisco, Remote)
Need an intro? Just ask.
What we’re reading & listening to this week
Corey - Kadavy, Why You Hate Comic Sans
Pinkie - Sally Rooney, Intermezzo
Ugo (aka Ugoat 🐐) - Meta, V-JEPA 2
Thanks for reading. If you're building something smart and strange, we want to hear about it. If your agents are acting up, we're here for you. If your support flows still run on duct tape and hope, same.
Until next time,
Team @ 14.ai.