The YC application has changed its weighting system.
Harvard and Stanford no longer carry the room.
Your Github does.
Intelligence is on tap - so taste, agency, and shipping velocity are the new credentials.
The era of pedigree as signal is over.
The era of output as signal has replaced it.
The need and opportunity for professional services and FDEs to deploy agents right now is massive.
Every tech wave offers a new era of consulting and tech services requirements. Moving from analog to digital led to a massive wave in the 90s. Moving from on-prem to cloud did the same in the 2000s. But this is going to be at a scale far greater than the others.
The reason is that agents fundamentally change the underlying workflows of an organization. Unlike most prior eras of technology, where it was a change in medium of the service being delivered (on-prem CRM to cloud CRM), agents rewire the business process itself. And unlike upgrading a tech system, business processes are full of idiosyncrasies.
Every industry will have its own variants, and every department within those industries will have variants as well. Not to mention the bespoke difference between firms. Bringing agents to marketing in CPG will look different from marketing in healthcare. Bringing agents to sales in a B2B software company will look different from a car dealership.
And none of the change is easy technically. You need to first modernize your infrastructure and data and make sure it’s ready for agents; access controls, entitlements, and permissions need to be mapped in a way that works for agents and people; you need to make sure agents have the right context to work with; you need to consistently eval and maintain the agents when there are model upgrades; and you need to drive the change management of the process itself to figure out which parts the people do and what agents do.
That’s an insane amount of technical and domain-specific process work to be done to make this all happen. Huge opportunity for new service providers, as well as internally teams and roles to emerge, to help drive this change.
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is it just me or are all these fucking prompt package sellers really annoying. they legit psyop fomo people into buying a shitty google doc filled with useless slop.
I'm 22 years old and Claude Code is deteriorating my brain.
Every single day for the last 6 months I've had 6 to 8 Claude Code terminals open, waiting for a response just so I can hit 'enter' 75% of the time. And it's doing something to me.
In convos with a couple of friends, it's been a point that's been brought up pretty frequently.
None of us feel as sharp as we used to.
I don't know if it's just us, or others in their 20s are feeling the same thing, but it's something I've been thinking about a lot.
P.S. I know this is a problem with my reliability/usage of it, not Claude Code itself, but the effects are real nonetheless
i feel like a lot of people over obsess over things like preparation and obtaining the knowledge to start.
I think that mindset is horrible since not only is success achieved through iteration against problems but that whole entire ideology of spending x amount of time towards preparation is genuinely just cope. It’s literally impossible to prepare for every pitfall you will encounter and the opportunities that are missed during the prolonged “preparation” is ridiculous. Become addicted to that feeling of solving a problem/issue and success will follow very shortly.
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current competitor ad scraping agent pipe line:
1.Daily cron → pull active ads from your watchlist (AG1, Arrae, Gruns, Liquid Plus, Magic Mind, Poppi) via Apify.
2.Rank by days-running + variant-count → keep anything live >21 days or with >3 variants.
3.Ingest video/image + on-screen text + ad copy into a local library (SQLite + object storage).
4.Claude Vision/video analysis on each winner → extract: hook (first 3s), problem framing, benefit stack, proof element, CTA, visual style, pacing.
5.Rewriter → Claude rewrites as a Natrae ad script with: hook line, shot list (for video) or slide breakdown (for static), VO, on-screen text, CTA, suggested b-roll. Output in a format your media buyer can hand to an editor.
6.Dashboard / daily digest email → “Here are today’s 5 new winners + 5 Natrae-rewritten scripts ready to shoot.”