My advice to founders in 2026: spend tokens, not headcount.
Record everything. Make your company queryable. Build self-improving loops.
Before long, AI won’t just help you operate your company. It will make it self improving.
Don't think AI adoption, think AI transformation.
This is the biggest shift in how startups get built since cloud computing.
Paul Graham explains his rule of thumb for when to launch your product
“The risk of launching early is not as great as the risk of launching late… So you’ve got to have a good rule of thumb about when to launch. And my rule of thumb is launch as soon as you have a quantum of utility, which means as soon as there’s one person in the world who is glad you launched because now they can do something that they couldn’t do.”
He continues:
“If you have something that if you launched it, no one would be happy, then you’re not ready to launch… [But] if there’s 10 people who are super excited and nobody else cares, totally launch. That’s perfectly fine. That’s great.”
Source: @ycombinator (Aug 2028)
go to bed
right now
i know the build is almost finished
the eval can wait til morning
the agent will still be failing tomorrow
you won't figure out why it's hallucinating
yes your coworker ships on 4 hrs of sleep
they also hallucinate a lot
off you go
New Anthropic research: Emotion concepts and their function in a large language model.
All LLMs sometimes act like they have emotions. But why? We found internal representations of emotion concepts that can drive Claude’s behavior, sometimes in surprising ways.
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