Large-scale AI apps in production

Agentic Coders Anonymous Paris, first edition

Last Monday, I organized the first edition of Agentic Coders Anonymous in Paris.

Feb 22 • Eliot Andres

Trying out Coder (attempting to rebuild Ramp's background agents setup in a weekend, part 2)

Last weekend, I attempted to rebuild Ramp’s background agent setup using OpenCode and OpenCode Portal.

Feb 8 • Eliot Andres

PSA: the best Hacker News app for iOS is called "HACK"

No tracking, free and fast. What more do you need?

Feb 1 • Eliot Andres

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January 2026

Attempting to rebuild Ramp's background agent system in a weekend (on a Mac VM)

Like many people, I was blown away by Ramp’s article on background agents. They use a setup where agents:

Jan 25 • Eliot Andres

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Building Google-Docs-like live collaboration for a cross-platform app used by millions (in Rust)

Imagine yourself with 3 different clients (iOS, Android and web), each written in a different language, each already used by millions of users.

Jan 18 • Eliot Andres

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Why you should change your mobile app version format to [year].[week].[iteration]

Why we did it and the downsides

Jan 11 • Eliot Andres

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Our Setup for A/B Testing LLMs with Millions of Users

At Photoroom, we leverage LLMs under the hood of various features: prompt expansion, search, validation.

Jan 4 • Eliot Andres

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December 2025

The best cable in the world (for developers)

After years of use, I thought I'd share

Dec 30, 2025 • Eliot Andres

November 2024

Scaling Django to 10+ million active users on a single VM

This article was written at the end of 2024.

Nov 15, 2024 • Eliot Andres

March 2023

Building a 42-inch E Ink Art Frame

Recently, we wanted to find a way to display Generative AI art in our office at Photoroom.

Mar 11, 2023 • Eliot Andres