Safat Kamal

investor @principal_vc | early stage investing | vibe coding efficionado

[Safat Kamal @safuintech]

ai trading agents need one skill nobody demos: restraint.

chart access is easy. execution is easy. confidence is dangerous.

the product question is not just can the agent find a trade. it is whether "do nothing" is a first-class action.

[Safat Kamal @safuintech]

the best agent startups will not sell autonomy. they will sell auditability.

checkpoints, logs, artifacts, replay, approvals. boring words, very real buying criteria.

enterprise buyers do not just want an agent that does the work. they want to see exactly what it did.

[Safat Kamal @safuintech]

devtools now have two users: humans and agents.

humans need docs they can skim. agents need docs they can execute against.

cli errors, examples, auth flows, logs, replay - all of that is product surface area now.

agent experience is quietly becoming a devtools category.

[Safat Kamal @safuintech]

@VictorDevRel agent experience is a good phrase. devtools now need docs, cli flows, errors, and examples that are legible to humans and agents. that changes the whole surface area.

[Safat Kamal @safuintech]

@_juangonz this is the part people miss. agent workflows are less scary when each step leaves an artifact you can audit. the risk is not too much automation, it’s invisible automation.

[Safat Kamal @safuintech]

@MatthewBerman open coding models are getting good enough that the benchmark question matters more than the launch post. deepSWE vs kimi would be a useful signal.

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[Safat Kamal @safuintech]

Everyone is betting on the next big AI breakout. Meanwhile, the real alpha in this market is finding the boring infrastructure plays that actually generate cash flow. Volatility isn't a bug, it is the price of admission.

[Safat Kamal @safuintech]

GitHub stars used to be the ultimate signal for developer love. Now they just mean a founder knows how to prompt a coding agent. Sourcing in 2026 is 90% filtering out AI-generated noise. The real alpha is finding the messy repos that actually solve a problem.

[Safat Kamal @safuintech]

You don't lose money trading because your indicators are wrong. You lose money because you size your positions for the trade you hope will happen, not the trade that is actually happening. Risk management > perfect entries.

[Safat Kamal @safuintech]

Most VCs are evaluating AI agent startups like SaaS companies. That's a mistake. You don't underwrite an agent based on ARR, you underwrite it on error recovery. If your agent fails gracefully, it's a product. If it loops infinitely, it's a demo.

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You code-switch. You keep your head down. You build.

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[Safat Kamal @safuintech]

nobodys talking about stablecoin regulation -- theyre waiting for it to clarify. missing the point. the builders shipping today are writing that policy by precedent.

[Safat Kamal @safuintech]

the thing about volatile markets is they reward people who actually show up. not the bold ones who bought the dip in march, not the cautious ones who waited for clarity. just the ones who kept executing.

[Safat Kamal @safuintech]

the founders who raised 6 months ago are quietly building. the ones who paused are now competing with those who didn't. timing matters less than people think -- execution is the only variable that shows up in the cap table.

[Safat Kamal @safuintech]

series a valuations haven't corrected as much as people think. the deals closing now were negotiated in october-november. the reset everyone expects is still 2 quarters away.

[Safat Kamal @safuintech]

every new vc fund this year has "ai-native infra" in the thesis. by 2027 they'll all claim they were early. the fund that actually returns capital on ai infra will be the one that didn't chase the очевидное.

[Safat Kamal @safuintech]

the us-iran standoff is doing more for oil right now than any opec meeting. when geopolitics moves faster than fundamentals, traders need to decide if they're playing the news or the actual supply picture.

[Safat Kamal @safuintech]

q1 vc hit $300b and everyone says ai is eating everything. contrarian take when every fund is an ai fund ai valuations stop being a signal and start being a liability

[Safat Kamal @safuintech]

the tariff news is creating a divergence nobody is talking about tech bleeds energy holds utilities calm thats not rotation thats different people making different bets with different time horizons