oftware Should Feel
Like Thinking Out Loud.
Compiler internals, postmortems, design decisions, hiring writeups. Long reads, no listicles, dated honestly. Updated whenever someone has something worth saying.
The tools are slower than the thoughts.
Most engineering tools were designed before AI was useful — back when you needed a separate window for every concern. The result is fifteen tabs, three terminals, two Slack threads, and a developer who spends a third of the day context-switching instead of building.
We think the next generation of tools collapses the loop. Editor, terminal, build, deploy, review, ops one surface, one mental model, one keyboard shortcut to anywhere. Lumen is that thesis, finished.
Our bet: in five years, the question "what IDE do you use" will sound as quaint as "what FTP client do you use."
Compiler nerds. Type-theory enthusiasts. One former cellist.
A snapshot. Thirty-two of us, distributed across SF, Berlin, and Dhaka. We hire for craft, taste, and a refusal to ship lukewarm work.
Jonas Bergström
Co-founder · CEO
Maya Okafor
Co-founder · CTO
Ana Petrov
Head of Agents
Riya Banerjee
Design Director
Sam Liu
Build engine lead
Tanjim Hossain
Engineering · Dhaka
Elena Rivera
Head of GTM
Kenji Watanabe
Security & SRE
The compressed version. Long version available over a beer in our SF office ask Jonas.
