Chris Lofton

Not Software-as-a-Service, but Service-as-Agentic-Software

[Chris Lofton @clofton_]

https://t.co/bNoLRzgYJZ

[Chris Lofton @clofton_]

Not Software-as-a-Service, but Service-as-Agentic-Software.

[Chris Lofton @clofton_]

Now that everyone can write their own code, there really isn’t any time for bs.

The entire layer of fluff gone. Ship it or shut up.

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@MatznerJon Yeah I gotta find a way to make it somehow

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@MatznerJon @joshuamschultz @clofton I would love to join

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@levie But the risk of being trapped by legacy software is too high. If their road map doesn’t align with this future, I am cooked. Cancelling all SaaS and building from scratch.

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Before AI: you could do anything but needed time

With AI: you can do any thing

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@Glynnfleet Congrats!

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@garrytan The token investment needs to eventually increase revenue or reduce costs.

I agree though. Error on the side of freedom and creativity as we discover what’s possible!

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@Austen I’m in

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@griswold CNA, and then planning to go up the ladder in credentialing with Nursing and Hygiene

[Garry Tan @garrytan]

Claude Code this week has awakened my 25 year old self: the one that chugged red bulls and stayed up til dawn coding.

WE ARE SO BACK

[Johnathan Bi @JohnathanBi]

Nothing has made me more optimistic about our AI future than visiting Alpha School.

The dominant doomer narrative is that, even if we solve alignment, AI will automate so much that humans will be left with nothing but meaningless hedonism. As AI does more and more humans are reduced to less and less.

Alpha School shows us that there exists an alternate path where human potential is realized, not truncated, by AI and where work becomes more meaningful.

I shadowed Alpha’s co-founder MacKenzie Price (@mackenzieprice) for a week and was blown away by what I saw. They’ve replaced all of their human teachers with AI tutors that are able to offer bespoke, custom instruction to each student — the same kind of tutorship previously reserved for the aristocracy now scalable through technology. Her students spend only 2 hours a day on academics and yet consistently score 99th percentile in standardized testing and go on to study in the best colleges in the world.

But what about teachers who now have all lost their jobs? They are hired as “guides” who dedicate all of their time to understanding and motivating their students instead of grading papers on the same basic material over and over again. For many, AI has freed them to spend more time on what attracted them to teaching in the first place — building human connection and inspiring the next generation.

In this interview, we dive deep into Alpha’s philosophy and gain insight into the perennial questions in the philosophy of education:
- Can virtue be taught?
- Does nature overpower nurture?
- What is the relationship between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation?

Timestamps:

1:54 Our Education System is Obsolete
9:10 AI Tutors, 10x Learning
23:38 Confidence Can Be Taught
36:33 Universities In The Age of AI
40:14 How to Get Kids to Love School
42:22 External vs. Intrinsic Motivation
54:20 We Pay Kids Cold Hard Cash
1:02:13 Kids Want More School

[Chris Lofton @clofton_]

A good CEO realizes when to be the coach and when to be the quarterback and is capable of being both.

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@elonmusk Can you single handedly beat Google?

I sure hope so

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@jack why is weebly so neglected? What’s the plan?

[Jason Shuman @JasonrShuman]

Talk to anyone in PE who has done rollups and they’ll all tell you the same thing

The majority of services businesses require strong human to human relationships

When most rollups fail they’ve failed because of churn

If the VC rollups aren’t focusing a lot of their AI products on how to improve that customer relationship and are only focused on less headcount for service delivery and AI driven growth they’ll be doomed

Home service companies, MSPs, vacation rental management…history shows us the mistakes that have been written