Tobias Herber
Tobias co-founded Metorial to make AI infrastructure safe and reliable for enterprise teams. He previously worked on developer tools, system software, and large-scale distributed systems.
Blog Posts
Security has to come first
AI agents are starting to touch real company systems, which means security cannot be something added later. This is how we think about isolation, key control, and the protocol layer at Metorial.
Tobias HerberThe Case for Boring APIs
Public APIs are infrastructure, not art projects. The best APIs are predictably boring: they use standard REST conventions, maintain consistency across all endpoints, and let developers build a mental model after using just one endpoint. When your API tries to be clever with novel patterns or inconsistent structures, integration goes from hours to days. Save your innovation for your product and let your API fade into the background where it belongs.
Tobias HerberThe jQuery Age of AI Agents
We’re in the jQuery age of AI agents, where every integration feels like duct tape, and standards are still a dream. Just like jQuery once smoothed over the chaos of incompatible browsers, MCP is doing the same for fragmented AI tools, making it finally possible to ship agents that actually work. It’s not perfect, but it’s the layer we need right now.
Tobias Herber