Over the past year, the way we use AI at Thumbtack has gone through a few phases. Early on it was mostly curiosity, people experimenting with ChatGPT and Copilot on side projects, sharing tips in Slack. Then the models got noticeably better at working inside real, mature codebases (not just greenfield projects) and the conversation shifted. It stopped being about…
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12 May
An Engineer’s Guide to Better AI Skills: Implementing a Testing Process to Optimize Agent…
PinterestAn Engineer’s Guide to Better AI Skills: Implementing a Testing Process to Optimize Agent Performance in Any Repository or Skill Author: Daniel Reed The tech industry is currently seeing a massive overhaul in the way we work and many are enjoying the benefits of AI agents, particularly when automating engineer workflows and serving domain-specific knowledge. However, relying on agents to…
3 Dec 2025
Meet Ashmann Syngle, Software Engineer I joined Thumbtack in July 2022, so it’s been just over three years now! I first heard about the company from my former engineering manager at HBO Max, who encouraged me to apply. I’m so glad he did. What I’m Working On Over the past year, I’ve worked on several projects that make it easier…
6 Jan 2023
I recently celebrated my one year anniversary as a Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) trainee at SoundCloud. Looking back, I had very little…
12 Jul 2022
The first step to any code review is understanding what the code does and why. Although the author is by far the most qualified person to…
11 Mar 2021
Paging Doctor Software In the past, on-call duty was often associated with doctors, but in recent years, it’s become common for software…
17 Jul 2020
DeveloperBridge: SoundCloud’s Program for Training People from Diverse Backgrounds to Become Engineers
SoundcloudDeveloperBridge is a year-long, full-time, paid traineeship program where participants learn from and work with engineering teams at…
7 Feb 2020
My first six months at SoundCloud as an iOS engineer on the Recommendations team have just finished. In that time, I’ve already contributed…
15 Feb 2019
Although it can be easy to know if you’ve messed up badly as a manager, it’s not always as easy to know if you’re doing a good job. In…
23 Nov 2018
Almost every company accumulates tech debt as time goes on. Tight deadlines, changing requirements, scaling issues, poor or short-sighted system designs, knowledge silos, inconsistent coding practices, turnover of key staff — these things all happen and can contribute to tech debt. So what can be done about it once it’s there?
24 May 2018
An absolutely crucial part of the experience of being an engineer at SoundCloud is learning and growing as a person. Pretty much everyone we hire mentions this aspect as one of their main motivations for joining the company. And while retaining highly talented and motivated people and helping them develop is naturally valuable for SoundCloud as a company, it’s also…