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The founder's playbook: Building an AI-native startup
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Re: The founder's playbook: Building an AI-native startup
#12This should be obvious but why would you trust what the spade seller says about being an AI-native startup.
Even if you believe AI-native startup is the future (the comments are divided), you would at least want to hear from an impartial source.
This is just marketing material.
Re: The founder's playbook: Building an AI-native startup
#13>As an AI-native startup founder, your responsibility is to know what's in your
codebase, understand any potential exposure vectors, and not ship obvious
vulnerabilities to real users who are trusting you with their data.
This is fairly funny coming from the company whose employees report merging in hundreds of PRs per engineer per day, and accidentally leaked their own source code through a security misconfiguration in a package manager they own.
Re: The founder's playbook: Building an AI-native startup
#14I’m pretty sure the one place people will never believe AI can be applied is “being a founder”. There’s just too much invested, in terms of beliefs and money into the idea that founders are special and therefore deserve seven-eight figures off of the capital pumped into their unprofitable products. You’ll see it here in comments. People will defend A”I” applied to software engineering wherever (not) possible, but bui…
Exactly, I always find it ridiculous how the suits, any layer of mid-managment to executives, are so eager on AI 'outsourcing' everything, but they themselves think the 'outsourcing' (if it really works) would stop just before their position.
Re: The founder's playbook: Building an AI-native startup
#15What's AI-native these days?
I've noticed that seemingly every single tech company has re-branded themselves as "AI" company. Add a RAG system and you're now AI. Add a AI-chatbot, and you're now AI.
Re: The founder's playbook: Building an AI-native startup
#16Feels like a category error. It's a slide deck telling people what a product can do (that's a normal thing to release for a company), but the thing it tries to sell you on is building your own business based on their tool. Which makes no sense the way they sell it, because "founding a business" is no standard process that could be formalized in a way like that, nor does it make sense for society to have people foundi…
Welcome to the world of companies founded by business school grads. No soul, no moat, just an endless cycle of KPIs and billion-dollar exits to PE.
Re: The founder's playbook: Building an AI-native startup
#17I’m pretty sure the one place people will never believe AI can be applied is “being a founder”. There’s just too much invested, in terms of beliefs and money into the idea that founders are special and therefore deserve seven-eight figures off of the capital pumped into their unprofitable products. You’ll see it here in comments. People will defend A”I” applied to software engineering wherever (not) possible, but bui…
Why would that be true? Successful founders have to be unsentimental by nature. If you make it harder on yourself than it has to be, you just get killed by people who don't.
Re: The founder's playbook: Building an AI-native startup
#18I like how dates and copies are still the ultimate version control:
"-05062026_v3 (1).pdf"
So there were 4 iterations on 5th of June alone for this document
Re: The founder's playbook: Building an AI-native startup
#19This feels like a “sell the shovels” move. Social media is full of “this one prompt to get rich quick”. It’s the new “one weird trick”.
Re: The founder's playbook: Building an AI-native startup
#20I think it's easy for those already in the tech industry to pooh-pooh this, as the previous comments on this post have.
Right now, people with ideas prompt their LLM by saying "I know how to make x, how do I turn that into a business?" Anthropic knows that, and releasing a playbook like this is a way to make people who haven't asked that question think to ask it.
For a non-technical person with a small business they don't know how to operationalize, an agentic workflow is a game changer. You might go from only getting 30% of your work time to build and improve your actual product to 50% or 70%.
Can you imagine having a knitting business, and suddenly being able to gauge interest for different colors with a website selector you'd have no idea how to automate? Or needing to close your shop for an upcoming holiday, and having Google and Apple Maps and your website all updated to reflect your closed dates cleanly, without having to fight through every UI? An engineer goes "bah", a baker goes "I just got to sleep two more hours".
I truly think that people in the tech industry do not understand how hard technology is for people who aren't in it.