Hot take: A lot of #AI startups are going to fail thinking it's a silver bullet solution for the marketplace. AI is useless without a great product to integrate into. Product is still king. Focus on the product.

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If you want to validate a consumer idea, you shouldn’t be afraid to do things that don’t scale. Instead, you should aim to make it the very best it’ll ever be, so your results are not confounded by poor execution. If that means manually supervising chats that are supposed to be

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Grok 4 announcement recap I watched 1 hour of an awkward rambling demo so you don’t have to! - 2 new models, grok 4 and grok 4 heavy. - Reasoning only models. Non reasoning is removed. - Insanely good benchmarks. Significant jumps & new records. Seems to be #1 on

Reminder: Get busy being born (or reborn) or get busy dying.

If all of your #ai experiments are random sandbox tasks (e.g. "summarize this doc") you are doing it wrong... AI is about compounding workflow gains. It's a path-design problem yielding exponential benefits based on chosen workflows. Hint: map key junctions in your org's

AI is forcing everyone to replace the comfort of control with the discipline of systems. Most companies wont be able to do it, the ones that do are going to leapfrog the competition by orders of magnitude.

AI enabled operational velocity is as much of a competitive advantage as AI product integration. The company is the product

This just in, execution is now cheap. Agile is dead. Timidity is the new risk to hedge against. Not building enough things towards a larger vision that is really transformative for the customer.

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People typically fall into two camps as it relates to using AI to create products. 1. You stay permanently high level. You are a vibe coder you ship fast but don't understand deeply what you are building typically leading to the wrong thing unknowingly. 2. You stay permanently

AI has entered the self acceleration loop. Dario Amodei says he has engineers telling him they don't write code, they let the models write the code. We have AI writing the next generation of AI systems. We are at the begin of the acceleration curve.

Having AI do most of my job for me, while also having the existential fear of it replacing me, while also having more inbound requests to join companies than ever before is fucking strange.