The biggest organizational mistake of the last 20 years was turning “maker work” into an engineering-only identity. AI is about to expose how much of the company actually depends on deep work.
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AI is breaking taste itself.
Tasteful branding, elegant copy, polished websites, emotionally calibrated marketing. Everything online suddenly looks sophisticated. And strangely, that may be very good news for real builders.
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For years, software has been judged by what it can do, not how easily it can be used. If something was technically possible, that was enough. That’s the arrogance of capability. AI is about to expose that.
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We spent a decade making software multiplayer.
AI quietly reset us back to single-player.
It makes you faster alone. It doesn’t yet help teams think in the same system. That gap is going to matter.
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https://t.co/3fVHAxRG84
Proficiency with AI tools will matter.
But if you don’t also have 2 of these 3 skills, it won’t be enough to thrive in the AI era:
Systems thinking — designing intelligent workflows
Founder thinking — starting bold new initiatives
Craft thinking — bringing art, taste and judgment
Tool fluency is becoming table stakes.
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https://t.co/cWsbVzrn6E
AI is making us all move faster and in roughly the same direction. True breakthroughs are going to become increasingly rare.
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Anthropic’s recent report sparked a lot of discussion about how much knowledge work AI might automate.
Let's push the scenario further
Imagine AI eventually handles something like 80% of the work people in tech do today.
Who gets the jobs tied to the 20% that remain?
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https://t.co/cWsbVzrn6E
@samshank Susan Wojcicki, former CEO of YouTube, famously measured "watch time" and there was a billion hour goal. What was cool about watch time versus something like view counts was it rewarded engagement instead of click bait. One metric can be very powerful!
We are entering software’s third era.
Human-led → AI-assisted → Agent-led
In this era well designed governance becomes an unfair advantage for founders.
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https://t.co/s8ahN4unz3
Studied the open roles at Cursor, Harvey, ElevenLabs, LangChain and more.
They’re organizing around agents, deployment-heavy GTM, and AI-foward legal and finance.
AI Startups aren't just building different products they are building different companies.
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https://t.co/C9ZCTaHHTj