Alex Brandes
CTO, Constellation
Alex Brandes is CTO of Constellation, where he leads the team building Gate.
Posts
Software is writing itself
A $40 dev board that became whatever I described. A local model made four times faster by an agent with more patience than I have. And DeepSeek Harness, a program that rebuilds itself while you are using it. On software that stops arriving finished, what that does to a security team's idea of an approved application, and what has to hold still while everything above it changes.
N° 01 · July 6, 2026Pick your models. Own your rails.
Buy AI from a frontier lab and you get a whole operations department with the model: the screening you never see, the spend limits, the dashboard, the record. That bundle is coming apart as teams go multi-model. On why the accountability layer can't come from the people selling you the models, and what we built.