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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

#71
IMHO most founder will fail because leaning to heavy into ai and creating a system where they never experience the friction necessary to build the domain knowledge which ultimately could be the deciding factor.

Just think about website design, I don’t think it’s far-fetched to say that a non ai design website will outperform an ai designed one. These percentages add up in multiple disciplines.

I would argue betting against ai is your best chance of succeeding frankly (not in all cases but certainly as displayed here)

Re: The founder's playbook: Building an AI-native startup

#73
> Now someone with no engineering background can build production software that brings their idea to life, while a technically adept founder with little business knowledge can easily produce a go-to-market strategy, a financial model, and a highly polished pitch deck.

I had a bit of a laugh. The non-technical business experts are much more likely to achieve success than the technical experts. They can actually talk to the customer and get the customer to care. No quantity of GPUs and gas turbines can correct for a lack of personality or reputation. The technology is generally not the hard part in most businesses, despite the extreme efforts of certain technology people to make it seem so.

Re: The founder's playbook: Building an AI-native startup

#74
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Feels 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…

> 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

It makes no sense, but most technical people wished it could be like that and that's who this article is aimed at

Re: The founder's playbook: Building an AI-native startup

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post #6

Feels 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…

> 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 It makes no sense, but most technical people wished it could be like that and that's who this article is aimed at

Yes but that means that it is lying in people's face. Really just straight-up lying. No fancy words to soften it. Just lies.

Lying is bad.

Re: The founder's playbook: Building an AI-native startup

#77
I feel like a lot of this advice is kind of dangerous. How do I draft a tight investor memo? I'll ask the slop machine!

It's kind of analogous to how I'm writing code right now. For simple stuff or low priority stuff I'll fire claude at it and won't look at the code if it works. But for the important stuff I'm very carefully integrated into the cycle making sure what's coming out at the end is just right. I'm carefully constructing prompt loops and validation cycles to make sure what comes out looks like what I want - because I have the knowledge and experience of what works for my specific use case. Drafting an investor memo seems like the second category of thing, you need it to be right. I don't think claude offers much of value there. What's more - if you start slopping your investors, you are going to piss them off. Unless Claude is going to say it has some special data source it's used to train on so it knows good from bad, I think this is a bad idea.

This article also kind of fits in the category of "Here's how to use AI for EVERYTHING!" and actually it would be far more valuable to say "This is the bits that AI is good at, and here's where you need to do it yourself" - which is obviously a position that Anthropic can't hold.

Re: The founder's playbook: Building an AI-native startup

#78
post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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 It makes no sense, but most technical people wished it could be like that and that's who this article is aimed at

Yes but that means that it is lying in people's face. Really just straight-up lying. No fancy words to soften it. Just lies. Lying is bad.

As said in Seinfeld: "Jerry, just remember. Is not a lie, if you believe it"

Re: The founder's playbook: Building an AI-native startup

#79
post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes but that means that it is lying in people's face. Really just straight-up lying. No fancy words to soften it. Just lies. Lying is bad.

As said in Seinfeld: "Jerry, just remember. Is not a lie, if you believe it"

How people cope with their delusion is irrelevant tho.

They're delusional. They must stop

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