Lots of founders are crashing out A year ago AI felt like an incredible opportunity. Most of us were able to ship faster, remove admin, and get time back. Lots of engineering founders were even able to explore marketing for the first time: SEO, organic social, outbound. Building complex systems that felt extremely productive. But since then, a lot has happened. Here’s some of the themes I’m seeing: AI marketing isn’t working. At first it feels impressive and it looks good but for most it’s not driving results. This is made worse by the fact everyone has access to the same tools. Inboxes are flooded, buyers are fatigued, the economy is flat. Engineers are fried. Yes you can ship more but for many the flow state has gone. It’s a new way of working and it’s not for everyone. The speed leaves many of us exhausted before 11am. There’s a feeling of what’s the point? Is my product’s next feature going to be redundant in a year, or a month? Can’t AI do what my business does, better? SaaS valuations have collapsed. From 3-4x revenue to 1x. There’s a sinking realisation that a large number of SaaS companies will go to 0 in the next few years. Building to exit seems almost crazy right now. There’s far fewer buyers and far more sellers. These include vibe coders cloning products without the care or craft, contributing to the distribution challenges from people doing it the right way. Lots of people are trying to make money by selling shovels. This just adds to the frenzied energy. Build in public stopped being fun. A few makers realised that the new game is attention, and now everything feels insincere and stunt-driven. They are influencers not founders. Changes to the X timeline compounded the issues. There are exceptions and there are still moats remaining, but the challenges feel existential

AI is a multiplier. It augments your capabilities. Productivity is not strictly uniform. Top engineers get most of the boost for the same tokens spent. People who have done the entire vertical stack may benefit most from AI: they can take the best sword straight to the dragon’s lair. Those who have never entered the dungeons easily stray.

He's at the very least a marketing genius! @adcock_brett 🦾🔥🤩

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FSD Supervised now approved in Croatia 🇭🇷 Rollout will begin soon

Starship transiting the Sun this morning during Flight 14 — prior to this morning's mission, this has never been captured before with the world's largest and most powerful rocket. I’ve ached over this shot for years, mainly for two reasons: what does methane exhaust look like silhouetted against the Sun, and how violent are the acoustic energy waves from 33 Raptor engines on the Super Heavy booster? Well...now we have an answer. 📸 - @NASASpaceflight

Piercing the veil to catch a glimpse of the Automated Grader.

Andrej Karparhy's last post has been nearly 2 months ago. He didn't even bother to talk about the Opus 5.5 release. There is some serious breakthrough happening at Anthropic.

We may have reached the singularity with digital experiences. Opus 5.5 has proven that it's capable of producing tasteful, well-designed experiences, like this example here. Any digital experience will likely be commoditised, personalised and available to anyone who seeks it. In the near future, any digital experience you can think of will probably be generated in minutes, or even seconds. I'm still not sure what to think of this. On one side, it's amazing, we'll enter an era of digital content abundance. Whatever you seek to experience, learn or play, you'll be able to generate it in seconds. On the flip side, the joy of creation will be largely diminished, because any experience you could think of will probably have been generated by someone else already. I think premium gaming experiences and amazing movies by human directors will still exist, but that high bar is slowly getting eaten up by generative AI, and I can foresee a future where it surpasses even that. What a time to be alive to experience this. Play Little Habitats here (works well on mobile too) little-habitats.vercel.app/ This mini-game is built by Opus 5.5 in 2+ hours.

Dark Souls running in the browser, built using fal for assets, Astra + Opus 5.5 for development ⚔️ releasing the full repo soon, with all my experiments and learnings

This is simply incompetence/negligence disguised as … I don’t even know what. Performative safety? Your boss is running around talking about catastrophic risk and yet has apparently zero internal incentives to get basic sandboxing right.

Approve FSD in Norway now! @Statensvegvesen can recognize the Dutch Article 39 approval today. Norway does not have to wait for the EU committee vote! Help spread this for a safer Norway.

Really surprising how quickly it went from not working for years, to just barely working, to solved. That's pretty much the story for every domain AI is applied to. Once it barely starts working, it will be superhuman very soon. RSI is just barely working now.

420 Model Ys 69 Cybercabs

Holy Shit! - The Powers of 10 by Claude Opus 5.5 😱

this is literally steve jobs coded

PHASEONE [big] Strikes again

RT @brickroad7: Early access to models has ruined the ability to intuit/assess/weigh how good it is based on twitter reception. They are…