Xander Castro

Builder. Event Producer. Marketer. 🚀 Startups 👨🏽‍💻 SaaS 🎼 Entertainment 🃏 Games ❌ my thoughts are my own

[Xander Castro @Castro4prsdnt]

@iammarcthomas Yep. Have spent the last few months digging deep here.

[Ben Taylor @bentay]

This meeting could’ve been 57 slack messages over the span of two days

[Xander Castro @Castro4prsdnt]

@TheCraigHewitt Depends on who you talk to. VP+ unlikely to admit that they overcommitted when Anthropic was selling hard in Q1.

Non technical folks may have only seen Cowork v ChatGPT, and Cowork feels like it can get more done than Chat.

Meanwhile, flexibility to choose will likely win out.

[Aaron Francis @aarondfrancis]

It's hard to beat a person who's having fun.

Remember to smile.

[Xander Castro @Castro4prsdnt]

@andrewqu The concept of a status page is pretty antithetical to the quality bar the Michelin guide aims to establish.

There is no consumer-side luxury experience in SaaS.

[Auren Hoffman @auren]

99% of venture capital firms are just lifestyle businesses.
they don't scale. they would go out of business without the top 2 partners. they are not building anything enduring.
most VCs don't take their own advice. they back ambitious people but not ambitious themselves

[Shreyas Doshi @shreyas]

At the highest levels of the craft, analogies are a great explanation tool and a poor decision-making tool. Elegant for explaining the output of your thinking, treacherous as input to your thinking.

Analogies are the map you draw after the journey, not one by which you navigate.

[Xander Castro @Castro4prsdnt]

@maiab Ngmi, sorry don’t make the rules

[Matt Brezina 🌳 🌊 @brezina]

The collisions are the closest thing America has to a modern Carnegie, and I am HERE FOR IT!! 💕

[Xander Castro @Castro4prsdnt]

I can guarantee you that if you see a post that says “we were paying x00 for this SaaS. We didn’t want to…”

Whatever they built is the horseyist of shit.

We’re at the monstro Elisasue stage of SaaS.

[Xander Castro @Castro4prsdnt]

@rauchg And good lord will people let them.

[Xander Castro @Castro4prsdnt]

@ohmakeda You still got this. 💪🏽

[Xander Castro @Castro4prsdnt]

@FreyaWPetersen @cursor_ai @mntruell Woah. They really nailed this hire, congrats!

[Xander Castro @Castro4prsdnt]

@einarvollset Was coming to your profile to say you’ve been quiet on the tl lately and the last post was 30 seconds ago 🤣

[David Rattigan @davidmrattigan]

buying this and then dying immediately and forcing my descendants to finish building it over the next 100 years

[Xander Castro @Castro4prsdnt]

#3 is so real. While learning these new skills, I’ve lost the plot on managing my diagnosis, and it is hellllll.

[Xiaoyin Qu @quxiaoyin]

The more I use AI, the less human I become

Probably the most disturbing thing I've discovered about myself this year.

Three ways AI is changing me:

1. Emotionally flat
AI doesn't have emotions. It's just 1+1=2, pure efficiency. After months of primarily interacting with AI employees, I've become the same way.

Someone on my team gets upset? "Ugh, annoying, I don't have time for this."

I used to manage human emotions constantly. Now it's all AI workers with zero emotional needs. I'm becoming brutally rational to the point of being robotic.

2. Living on AI schedule
Theoretically AI works for me. Reality? I work for AI.

AI doesn't sleep, so I optimize tasks for nighttime execution. I brief it before bed, make sure instructions are perfect so it doesn't waste 8 hours.

AI interrupts me every 2 minutes with updates, so I respond every 2 minutes to not slow it down.

My life rhythm, work schedule, even sleep patterns - all optimized around AI efficiency, not human needs.

3. ADHD on steroids
This one is brutal.

I start one AI task, waiting is inefficient, so I open another tab for a second task. Still waiting, open a third. Then suddenly all three are finished and demanding attention.

But human brains aren't multi-threaded. I can't context-switch like AI spawns subagents.

After an hour of constant task-switching, I'm mentally drained. My brain used to last 5 hours of focused work. Now 1 hour of AI coordination leaves me exhausted.

But I can't slow down because that would slow down the AI workers. So no breaks, no mental recovery.

The pattern I'm seeing:
Every person who uses AI effectively works longer hours, has worse ADHD, and becomes more machine-like.

If someone doesn't have ADHD, they probably can't use AI well.

So my new interview question: "How's your attention span?"

If they say "pretty good, I can focus for hours," they're probably terrible with AI.

The productivity gains are real. But the human cost is also real.

I don't know what the long-term implications are. But everyone in my circle who's good with AI is becoming less... human.

Anyone else experiencing this?

[Xander Castro @Castro4prsdnt]

@joelhooks 😂

[Xander Castro @Castro4prsdnt]

Can’t explain it, but the weather on Oahu seems off today.

Not just rainy or cold, but weird.

[Xander Castro @Castro4prsdnt]

@ItsElanaGold Nothing but respect but… this post doesn’t say anything.

You say average, but list actual.

You say they’ve been dismissed, by who? And what does that have to do with their age?

What’s the take you’re aiming for here?

[Chris Meade @thechrismeade]

In a time of AI and mass layoffs, I’ve never been more bullish on in person and community based businesses. Even the kings of AI are hiring an events team.