Slím Boulahouech

building, breaking and finding out how tech and business fit together while sharing thoughts on what works, what doesn’t and why it might matter

[Slím Boulahouech @boulahouech]

Alienation is hardly a new feeling. People experienced something very similar during and after the Industrial Revolution and we know this because that sense of disorientation found its way into so much of 19th and 20th century literature and philosophy. Again and again, we encounter the same figure, a man who feels lost, disconnected from his community, and uncertain about what his life is supposed to mean

Nietzsche's famous declaration that "God is dead" is perhaps one of the clearest expressions of this crisis. It is often interpreted as simply saying that people no longer need religion, but he was describing the collapse of an entire system of meaning

The old world was structured around an aristocratic order whose ideals were supposedly rooted in things like honor, courage, duty, nobility, sacrifice, excellence, and virtue. Whether that world actually lived up to those ideals is another question, but those values provided people with a framework through which to understand themselves and their place in the world.

That order was gradually displaced by the modern bourgeois world, organized increasingly around commerce, productivity, comfort, property, and material accumulation

[Boring_Business @BoringBiz_]

Once you watch Claude or some other LLM do a task that used to take you 3 hours in the span of just 3 minutes, all work starts to lose its purpose

Have been hearing the same sentiment from many of my friends in middle management across tech, finance and other office jobs

All the years of experience you culminated at your field suddenly seems useless

You used to feel valued for your expertise in a niche domain, but that knowledge has now become commoditized

You begin to wonder how many more months until upper management and executives realize that they don’t need to pay your salary anymore

Maybe they can replace you fully. Maybe they can hire someone for 50% of the cost to do the same task with an AI

It is the impending sense of doom and despair. The loss of purpose from your life’s work disappearing losing value in front of your eyes

Truly an incredible time to be alive

[Slím Boulahouech @boulahouech]

@skeptrune raping things that dont scale

[Boardy @boardyai]

Apple was the 15th smartphone maker

Spotify was the 10th music platform

Google was the 21st search engine to enter the market

Facebook was the 10th social network

Netflix was the 7th streaming provider

Uber was the 4th ride sharing service

TikTok was the 8th short-video app

Zoom was the 11th video-calling app

Being first doesn't mean winning

[Slím Boulahouech @boulahouech]

There is an Italian architect named Renzo Piano who once said that architecture is a dangerous profession. When a writer writes a bad book, people simply don’t read it. But when you design a bad building, you impose that ugliness on a place for the next hundred years

Now, that's exactly what’s happening in many cities around the world, bad taste being imposed on everyone else

[Slím Boulahouech @boulahouech]

What I’ve noticed is that the zero-interest-rate era after the 2008 crisis created this culture in the valley where people started thinking every problem could be solved by just throwing more money at it

Easy access to capital basically killed the opportunity cost. Why figure out how to do more with less when you can just raise another $50M and throw it at the problem

SV used to be known for doing more with less. Now a lot of it feels like doing more with more and hoping something sticks

[Slím Boulahouech @boulahouech]

Me watching AI labs launching new models like they didn’t spend last week talking about slowing down AI

[OpenAI @OpenAI]

Please welcome GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna to the GPT-6 universe.

GPT-6 Sol and Luna build on the advances behind GPT-6 Astra, bringing much of its strengths into faster and more affordable models to support work at scale.

We’ve also made caching and inference more efficient, and we’re passing the savings directly to you: 50% lower API prices for Sol and Luna compared with GPT‑5.6 promotional pricing.

[Slím Boulahouech @boulahouech]

@benjitaylor The everything app, hein?

[Slím Boulahouech @boulahouech]

@unclebobmartin Uncle Bob, at this point, you might as well start working on Clean Conscience

[Slím Boulahouech @boulahouech]

The world is still full of things waiting to be built.

[Nikita Bier @nikitabier]

Bot detection & human verification will be one of the most urgent demands for businesses over the coming years. Agent swarms will suffocate every website and form; small companies and government websites are most vulnerable.

There is a huge gap in the market for this right now. When we looked at what offerings were in the market to use at X, there was not a single company that brought together all the latest technologies so we had to do it all in-house.

[Slím Boulahouech @boulahouech]

By slowing down, they mean slowing down the rate at which they reduce the cost

[Claude @claudeai]

Introducing Claude Opus 5.5, the first model in our new Claude 5.5 family.

It performs at the level of Claude Fable 5.1 for most tasks, and costs 40% less to run than Opus 5.

[Boring_Business @BoringBiz_]

Every CEO is now faced with two options in front of them

1/ Integrate yourself into the AI platforms and potentially risk getting dis-intermediated by OpenAI, Anthropic or Meta

2/ Build a castle around your platform and product, ban any API calls and potentially risk giving up hundreds of millions in revenue and web traffic

Don’t think anyone really knows what the right answer is, but the path you take determines the entire future for your business

Not a fun time to be a decision maker at a large company right now

[Slím Boulahouech @boulahouech]

Peter Thiel on Why Europeans Are So Risk-Averse

[Slím Boulahouech @boulahouech]

@dhh That’s literally Newton’s first law

[Slím Boulahouech @boulahouech]

Startups were supposed to be about doing more with less

But the zero-interest-rate era created a weird virus in silicon valley. Easy access to cheap money made them forget that principle

Instead of figuring out how to do more with less, they started solving problems by throwing more money at them

[Slím Boulahouech @boulahouech]

People, especially in the valley, seem to have forgotten that a startup is supposed to do more with less. that’s why technology matters so much, bcz it lets you reduce costs, increase efficiency and do things that previously required a much bigger company

The moat was & will always be doing things big corporations could do, but won’t because it might cannibalize their existing business, disrupt their business model, or simply isn’t worth their attention

So if you are builder and you are reading this, just cut the BS around moat here in twitter and go find the niche they don’t care about & build something they can’t justify building.that’s where startups still have an edge

[Slím Boulahouech @boulahouech]

@brannonhogue YOU ARE THE BEST BRO

[Slím Boulahouech @boulahouech]

People, especially in the valley, seem to have forgotten that a startup is supposed to do more with less. that’s why technology matters so much, bcz it lets you reduce costs, increase efficiency and do things that previously required a much bigger company

The moat was & will always be doing things big corporations could do, but won’t because it might cannibalize their existing business, disrupt their business model, or simply isn’t worth their attention

So if you are builder and you are reading this, just cut the BS around moat here in twitter and go find the niche they don’t care about & build something they can’t justify building.that’s where startups still have an edge

[Peer Richelsen @peer_rich]

wdym you‘re still playing video games?

dont you know you can hook up your AI agent to do that for you?

[Slím Boulahouech @boulahouech]

@brannonhogue Totally agree, we are in the same page bro.

[Slím Boulahouech @boulahouech]

@Sarthak02_ It’s way too early to have the final word

People were talking about openclaw like it was on the verge of AGI. Now nobody even dares to mention it. The AI race is still very long, and honestly, nobody has a clue where this thing is going.