Christofer Karltorp

Building stuff with AI and helping companies craft autonomous systems at MorelandConnect. Helped found @zerply back in the day.

[Christofer Karltorp @ckarltorp]

@MichaelDell Just received $250 each for the two kids under 10 (the baby already received $1000). So excited to start building a strong financial future for them. Thank you so much!

[Christofer Karltorp @ckarltorp]

Going to start hopping on a call with a business and giving them something hosted they can actually click before the day is over. Not a deck. Continuation of the vibe code showdown. If you can spare an hour hit me up.

[Christofer Karltorp @ckarltorp]

Ok I remember this feeling when I installed openclaw in February but the Grok @bot setup is so smooth. I keep spinning up new ones. So exciting! 🤠

[Christofer Karltorp @ckarltorp]

@auren I'd love an invite!

[Christofer Karltorp @ckarltorp]

I tried this yesterday and was actually surprised at how good it was!

[Peter Kazanjy @Kazanjy]

You can now access a chatbot trained on the entirety of all my Founder Led Sales writing, speaking, and other content.

It's like "Pete's GTM Brain" in an LLM chatbot.

Why: Founding Sales has always been about how I can scale "Pete's Early Stage GTM Brain" for founders (and others). The book was the first shot at that (and is very popular!)

Now with LLMs - I decided to see how that could be help.

So I created "The Founder Led Sales Coach" Chatbot!

It can help with all manner of Founder Led Sales topics - defining your Ideal Customer Profile, writing your sales narrative, how to surmount objections - pretty much anything in Founding Sales, levered up on LLM rocket fuel.

[D E N Y @denykhoung]

The future is bright for the US!

And what a huge step forward for design and designers!

Congrats and thanks for leading the charge Joe Gebbia!

[Kavan @Kavanthekid]

Untold - The Immortal Blades Saga

So beyond excited to share this concept trailer - Untold is a story I have worked on for over 8 years and next year, we will be making it into a reality with season 1 of the series. This project is probably the one I hold most close to my heart - and this journey we have been on has been beyond words. 

Discover your Destiny 2026

[Christofer Karltorp @ckarltorp]

This is long but so good!

[GREG ISENBERG @gregisenberg]

this is what's keeping me up at night these days...

1. chatgpt 4o image gen is as big as the chatgpt launch. probably will birth 1000+ $1-$100m/year vertical software businesses.

2. we’re in the “mp3 napster era” of content. millions of creators don’t realize their entire back catalog is being weaponized into their competition because of AI.

3. every calendar, inbox, and CRM will be rebuilt from scratch in the next 3 years. not “AI-enhanced,” fully rethought.

4. i thought ai was creating digital employees. but it's more like digital employers. the first ai systems that can manage human workers will cause a restructuring of labor markets more significant than the industrial revolution.

5. if your job is interviewing people who will train ai systems that will replace people who do interviews, you're just a step in a weird recursive extinction.

6. ai is turning "service businesses that don't scale" into "product businesses with service margins." the new unicorns will be productized services with ai doing 80% of the work.

7. building communities is harder than building products but everyone pretends it's the reverse. the reality is most startups fail because nobody cares.

8. it's been 739 days since the will smith spaghetti video. imagine what could happen to gen ai in 739 more days?

9. people building "ai assistants" have never actually had assistants. real assistants need context, history, and relationship. 95% of chatbots have none of those.

10. most customer support will be automated within 36 months. not just tier 1 tickets, complex, multi-step resolution that previously required senior support staff.

11. the worst thing that can happen to your startup is mediocre success. enough to keep you going but not enough to change your life. most founders are trapped there. thinking about this a lot with respect to shutting down or doubling down on projects.

12. the ai backlash won't just come from replaced workers, it'll be from everyone who realizes their entire digital identity is being converted into training data without consent.

13. no one has ever read a terms of service ever

14. the "sketching economy" is the real ai revolution. when anyone can turn rough sketches into production-ready designs, taste and ideation become the only scarce resources.

15. i dont know how else to say it, the money (and opportunity for the avg joe) is in ai startups is in vertical-specific applications that actually understand industry context. no, adding industry terms to your prompts isn't the same thing.

16. consumer mobile is back in full swing. we went from desktop-first apps to mobile-first apps to now ai-first mobile apps. the next wave of $100m/year apps will start mobile-first with ai baked in from day one.

17. the ai middleman boom is just starting. companies that sit between foundation models and specific industries will capture most of the value while both ends get commoditized.

18. we're witnessing the birth of a whole new job category: ai workflow designers. people who can map human processes into ai-augmented workflows will be the highest-paid consultants of the next decade.

19. ai is creating winner-take-most markets overnight. the window to establish yourself as the go-to solution in a specific vertical is maybe 6-12 months before it closes for a decade. this isn't helping my sleep lollll.

20. really smart strategy to rebuild traditional products with ai as your unfair advantage, hiding the complexity behind familiar interfaces. basically, just look at proven apps that have no ai, make them ai-first (if it adds a ton of value to end customer). use ai features (don’t sell ai) in creator-led marketing. this is the playbook.

21. distribution is the only moat left. your product, tech, and team can all be replicated. your direct connection to customers cannot.

22. we'll soon hit the tipping point where custom ai tools are cheaper than hiring humans, even for small businesses.

23. nobody's talking about how ai is making previously "un-acquirable" businesses suddenly attractive targets. when you can automate operations, the owner-dependent business problem disappears.

24. the coming smb acquisition frenzy will make the 2021 tech bubble look tame. when ai drops operating costs by 60%, every small business becomes a cash flow engine.

25. if vibe coding will be a $100B opportunity, how big of an opportunity is vibe marketing? (you can follow my co-founder @boringmarketer for more on that)

26. Video game studios will separate into two distinct types: agent-driven content farms that generate infinite assets, and boutique studios focused on core mechanics. The middle will disappear entirely.

27. Corporate photography is effectively dead. No company will pay $2K for a stock-style photoshoot when they can generate unlimited perfectly on-brand imagery for the cost of a subscription.

28. enterprise sales is being completely inverted by ai. using ai to identify exactly when and how to talk to the right buyer, and set off automations. ill probably talk about this more on a pod soon.

29. i wonder if AGI will emerge from interconnected agent networks that develop emergent properties nobody designed? we're building the neural connections without realizing it.

30. while genai looks to be the $1T category, many quiet fortunes will be built in predictive ai. knowing what will happen is more valuable than generating new content.

31. the "ai bubble" is actually an excise tax on vcs who can't tell the difference between genuine innovation and repackaged openai apis.

32. interfaces will become personalities. when every tool can talk back, vibe and tone will drive trust, loyalty, and retention. It's why I'm investing more in our design firm for the AI age @meetLCA (you can follow for more insights on designing/taste/brand that will stand out)

33. ai will kill the homepage. interfaces will get replaced by entry points that change based on who you are, what you need, and when you show up.

34. no one will pay for "ai", they’ll pay to solve a $10,000/hour problem in 3 clicks. sell outcomes, hide the ai.

35. ai is unbundling google. every vertical search engine, directory, and comparison tool is a billion-dollar opportunity in disguise.

36. every small business will get a “ghost team.” automated bookkeepers, sales agents, marketers—run by one founder and 5 bots.

37. ai-generated content is creating a monoculture of ideas. when everyone uses the same models, we get the same outputs. original human thinking is becoming the ultimate premium. be weird. weird will sell.

38. schools won’t be disrupted by ai. they’ll be disintermediated. smart teens will skip formal education, build audiences, run experiments, and learn faster. kids say they want to become creators but creators are becoming entrepreneurs. entrepreneurship becomes the most popular profession.

39. in 18 months, 80% of the “ai startup” category will look like spam. the rest will become infrastructure.

40. conversion rate product debates are obsolete. Why argue over 2 button colors when AI focus groups can test 200 variations overnight?

41. most of what we call “marketing” is about to be done by ai. humans will move upstream into storytelling, vibes, and brand energy.

42. the best hiring decision you can make this year? a head of ai ops. someone who can build workflows, glue tools, and ship outcomes.

43. the first $1b AGI startup will look like a toy at first. all world-changing interfaces do.

44. ai-powered distribution > ai-powered product. a mid product with elite reach will beat a great product with no attention every time.

45. people still hate monthly subscriptions. outcome-based pricing is still in early days. implementing this will be a competitive advantage for lots of companies. large saas wont be able to compete with you.

46. i don't know how long this window stays open, but we're in a moment where all the rules of building businesses are being rewritten. for the people playing with these new tools, creating audiences and communities, you've got an unfair advantage.

i hope you get some sleep.

[Aaron Levie @levie]

Still a crazy feeling when you send off a Deep Research task and close your laptop, knowing you’ll open it later and the work will be finished. Having AI Agents working for you in the background is going to be a wild shift to how we work.

[Christofer Karltorp @ckarltorp]

The v2 agent in @Replit is wild. I can go make a cup of coffee and it's figuring things out on its own (and for a long time too!) Thanks for the tip @mattyp 🙏

[Christofer Karltorp @ckarltorp]

I can confirm that this is absolutely true! It's so much fun coding and deploying. I should have started sooner! 😅
"Here’s what they don’t tell you about vibe-coding tools: They’re gateway drugs."
Piece by @every https://t.co/4CrY4tNxmi

[Christofer Karltorp @ckarltorp]

Update: after 3.5 years in Sweden, my family and I moved back to the States late last year. We loved Europe, but it’s clear the future of AI is being shaped here.

I’ve been tinkering with AI workflows and apps (thanks, @grok + @Replit) and I'm looking forward to what's next!

[Christofer Karltorp @ckarltorp]

@SherrodPatching Thanks Sherrod! :)

[Christofer Karltorp @ckarltorp]

This is a good one! https://t.co/qO7z8irSSm

[Zerply @zerply]

We're quite proud of how well the new showreel breakdown feature turned out! Check it out: https://t.co/d8GSjEQPxQ Feat. @ricesashi :)

[jonathan sloan @MrBigFists]

If you think writing in the proper tense is difficult now, just wait until time travel was possible.

[Bogdan Botezatu @bbotezatu]

Happy 25th birthday, #Linux! Here's your f-ing #cake, go ahead and compile it yourself.

[Conan O'Brien @ConanOBrien]

People in Cleveland haven’t been this happy since…wait, this is the first time they’re happy.