Nicolás Kriman

AI lead at Alpaca, a YC-backed brokerage-infrastructure company. I build agentic systems for developer productivity: coding agents, evals, harness engineering. Before this, first COO and later VP of Data at a LatAm private credit firm.

Writing

2026-07-12 Stop tuning prompts. Build the harness. AI still feels unsteerable. The fix is an engineering discipline borrowed from software's own past.
2026-07-12 The edge is what's missing The models are ready. The binding constraint is getting a specific firm's judgment out of three to five senior heads, and that's an elicitation problem.