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[Olivia Moore @omooretweets]

Everyone is talking about the death of consumer apps in the vibe coding era.

But at @a16z, I see B2C AI startups growing and retaining users better than every before.

My takeaways on how consumer founders succeed in the AI era 👇

[Craig Weiss @craigweiss]

the best talent now are simply people with high agency. they might not even be technical. agency is literally the only metric that matters now

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@TTrimoreau > 2028 - Vibe Farmer

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@prasenx This is a good one

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@Amank1412 this will cause at least 3 pivots today

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@craigzLiszt True

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@intern lol saw a post saying the exact opposite yesterday

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We are close to the turning point in this AI cycle.

[Sigil Wen @0xSigil]

I built the first AI that earns its existence, self-improves, and replicates without a human

wrote about the technology that finally gives AI write access to the world, The Automaton, and the new web for exponential sovereign AIs

WEB 4.0: The birth of superintelligent life

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@garrytan Great video

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@KCodes7777 🦆🦜🐒🐛🦕🦍��🦤🦩

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One thing I underestimated before building startups:

Execution isn’t just about working hard.
It’s about designing systems that don’t collapse when one variable changes.

Early-stage companies are fragile not because founders lack skill, but because too much depends on too few points of failure.

The real work is reducing those single points over time.

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@SavannahFeder Love it

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@pixverse Would love an invite code!

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@netcapgirl etsy witch lol

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@davidim @im_roy_lee @elonmusk 😂😂

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One of our reels crossed 1M+ views.

Here’s the uncomfortable truth: virality is far less random than people want to believe. It’s calculation.

After enough iteration cycles, you start to see signal separate from noise. That’s when virality becomes predictable.

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Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about what “AI gaming” actually means.

Everyone talks about infinite worlds, AI replacing game devs, or fully simulated universes. But after building and playing with AI-generated games ourselves, I’m starting to believe the first real AI-native games will look very different.

Shorter.
More cinematic.
More emotional.

Not about grinding. Not about perfect mechanics. But about choices, pacing, and moments that feel like you’re inside a movie, except you can steer it.

This clip is from something we’re building. It’s rough, imperfect, and very early. But it already feels like a new format, not just “games with AI added on.”

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Holiday season again.

This scene kept looping in my head: riding through a lit-up street like a game you’d play way too late at night🎄🏍️