Brian Douglas

Co-founder and CEO · Paper Compute Company

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Bio

Brian Douglas is the co-founder and CEO of Paper Compute Company. He previously served as Head of DX at Continue and Director of Developer Advocacy at GitHub. A well-known open-source advocate and host of the Open Source Ready podcast, Brian has a strong public speaking record at events including QCon and KubeCon.

Sessions (3)

Day 32:50pm-3:10pmTrack 4

Don't Write Skills, Train Models

Day 33:20pm-3:40pmTrack 4

Don't Write Skills, Train Models (cont. 2/3)

Day 33:45pm-4:05pmTrack 4

Don't Write Skills, Train Models (cont. 3/3)

Brian Douglas (bdougie) is the co-founder and CEO of Paper Compute Company, building open-source agent infrastructure primitives — Tapes for durable agent session telemetry and stereOS, a hardened Linux runtime for AI agents — drawing on prior experience as a GitHub developer advocate, founder of Open Sauced, and ecosystem lead at CNCF. Attending his session offers a ground-level view of what production AI agents actually need beneath the model layer: persistent session observability, deterministic replay, and isolated operating environments built for autonomous workloads.

Recent talks (1)

Continuous AI Best PracticeAll Things Open 2025 · Nov 2025

GitHub

@bdougie

Recent writing (6)

I Trained a Model Instead of Writing a Skill · blog · May 2026
842 Lint Errors, 5 Parallel Agents, 54 Minutes · blog · Mar 2026
What I Learned Running 10 Pokemon Bots in 36 Seconds · blog · Mar 2026
Claude Code Failed Mid-Session. tapes Brought It Back. · blog · Mar 2026
The Missing Primitive in Agent Infrastructure · blog · Feb 2026
Long-Term Care for Agents with Tapes · blog · Jan 2026

Podcasts & interviews (2)

Building the Backbone of AI Agents: Telemetry, Open Source, and the Future of Developer Infrastructure with Brian Douglas · Screaming in the Cloud · Apr 2026
Are Developers Overthinking Everything? w/ Bdougie · Whiskey Web and Whatnot · Dec 2025

Public activity researched automatically · as of Jun 2026