Had so much fun being back at Stripe where @collision and I talked SaaS, AI, and what we’re doing differently at Boulton & Watt. You can watch the fireside chat recording here: go.stripe.global/Summit-2026-on…↗

Two things I’ve been thinking about regarding AI: • People often highlight the risks involved in AI, which are surely very real. I’m struck, however, by how hard it is to understand the contours of the positive scenario. There are easy-to-perceive and frequently invoked elements…↗

The McDonaldization of Venture Capital McDonald’s sells more burgers than anyone, and they’re slop made physical. Venture is going the same way: AI took all of VC’s growth since 2023, and a16z raised 20%+ of US venture this year. Every step is rational. But can a system built to…↗

My kids now have to solve age appropriate math problems before each episode of Bluey, thanks to the miracle of AI reverse engineering and upgrading my TV 🔥🔥🔥↗

The @BostonCollege Investment Committee (an LP and my beloved alma mater) asked for a few thoughts on what's happening in AI. I recorded a test run yesterday morning and then shared it with my partners, who encouraged me to share it more broadly... so here you go! This is not…↗

Made a quick survey about the economics of AI: next-five-years.vercel.app.↗

That work will change around AI is inevitable, but the way work changes is not. I think firms with a lack of imagination will see AI as an opportunity to cut people, but firms with the vision to expand human roles & make them better with AI will thrive. …↗

After I read two articles yesterday about AI and the rat race I felt the urge to write. dark.ronacher.eu/2026/7/21/neve…↗

Introducing Parallel Search Turbo: the fastest and most affordable way to bring the web to your AI.↗

Control the ideas, not the code: blog post here antirez.com/news/169↗

I have been thinking about whether to comment on this. Not clear if Gal is serious, rage baiting, etc. Whatever the case, it has spread enough in the design community that I want to share some thoughts. The psychological journey people go through with AI is quite fascinating to…↗

episode 0 of the next token. listen to rhys, sunil, and and i yap about ai and software engineering↗

New from Stripe Economics: The Age of the Solopreneur stripeeconomics.com/p/the-age-of-t…↗

"The age of the solopreneur" by @stripe's in-house economist @ernietedeschi. stripeeconomics.com/p/the-age-of-t… and some of the charts to save you a click.↗

google paid $2.7b to acquire him in 24 & couldn’t hold him 18mo later. that’s pretty insane. i don’t even know a good sports analogy that works here. feels like they recruited ai jesus.↗

Amp Labs: small teams of the best software builders, working inside the most frontier-oriented company per industry and region. ampcode.com/news/amp-labs↗

I strongly believe there are entire companies right now under heavy AI psychosis and its impossible to have rational conversations about it with them. I can't name any specific people because they include personal friends I deeply respect, but I worry about how this plays out. I…↗

Had a lot of fun (really, actually) chatting with @kentlind on the Something Ventured podcast. We cover a lot of ground: the early days of seed investing (featuring folks like @jeff, @m2jr, @joshk et al), the state of seed today, Silicon Valley's "British invasion" (Kent's words,…↗

how is 7 powers changing in the age of AI? - counterpositioning - weakens - scale economics - weakens - switching - gone - network economies - weakens - process power - strengthens - branding - strengthens - cornered resource - strengthens↗

if software is spec, what if we got AI to make specs that weren't slop? working on this (very inspired by the beauty of makingsoftware.com by @danhollick)↗

Introducing GTM Atlas. GTM is going through its biggest transition in decades. Everyone used to work from the same stack, so everyone ran a version of the same system. AI has collapsed that gap completely, and the one-size-fits-all era is over. We’ve spoken to the most innovati…↗

Fuck I think I've figured out good creative writing with AI It's really fun↗

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New post w/ random thoughts on AI (thread) I will probably get a # wrong, but here we go :) 1/12 OpenAI & Anthropic now at 0.1% of US GDP *each* In a year, AI revenue likely to be 1-2% of US GDP What does AI mean for US GDP growth? Does productivity get lost mismeasured a la in…↗

The UI era is ending. 🪦 For 70 years we designed computer interfaces. Mainframe, CLI, GUI, Touch. But with AI, the interface is disappearing. What will come next? My talk from @mastra's conf this week:↗

Today, we're shipping the new Resend email editor, extended by AI. What I love about this is that you can BYOA (Bring Your Own Agent). There's a built-in LLM that can help you draft an email based on an URL. But you can just MCP into the editor too.↗

Wow. Jeff Bezos is raising a $100B fund to buy manufacturing companies and automate with AI. wsj.com/tech/jeff-bezo…↗

Introducing UNSLOP! Stop your AIs from generating SLOP. For example, ask it to 'unslop landing pages'. It'll generate hundreds of sites and find 'slop' patterns, then build a skill to make sure they are NEVER seen again. Open-source! Star it here: github.com/mshumer/unslop↗

if your skill depends on dynamic content, you can embed !`command` in your SKILL.md to inject shell output directly into the prompt Claude Code runs it when the skill is invoked and swaps the placeholder inline, the model only sees the result!↗

Today we're introducing the world's first AI CMO. Enter your website and it deploys a team of agents to help you get traffic and users. Try it now at okara.ai/cmo↗