> The founder's role is shifting from individual contributor to orchestrator, allowing them to focus on the work only they can do.
Founders are individual contributors? Hmmmm.
The founder's playbook: Building an AI-native startup
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Re: The founder's playbook: Building an AI-native startup
#132Honestly at this point I’m not even sure a non-local startup is a smart move anymore Like what do we really still need? Most riches nowadays are created by entertainment or scams :/
It is a smart move if you want to be that mega rich scammer.
Re: The founder's playbook: Building an AI-native startup
#133It's nice to see an explanation of how they think you should use Claude for a host of different job functions / aspects of building a business, but the tone makes it seem like founding a startup is something you wake up one morning and just decide to do instead of, say, going to the park. Over coffee, you ask Claude about your idea and when it tells you "you're a genius" you're off. That's silly in so many ways. Stat…
> the tone makes it seem like founding a startup is something you wake up one morning and just decide to do instead of, say, going to the park.
I'm not sure it's a crazy idea when you can run a whole revenue generating company with basically zero employees. You could have a successful 'startup' generating 200k in revenue a year, you just need to cover the cost of your anthropic subscription.
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#134Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you're using AI for your marketing you're going to get lumped into a slop category, with plenty of other products to keep you company. Only people with AI psychosis actually believe this garbage. All LLM output has a cheap stench to it that's impossible to ignore. There is no shortcut to hardwork, but llms somehow have people thinking that is the cases, it plays so well into people's desire to be as lazy as possib…
Outside of the tech/AI bubble, you'd be amazed at how few people can spot AI-generated content, and how few people seem to care if they think the AI-generated content speaks to their needs. I know a small business that generates many of their leads by responding to posts on social media. They recently started using AI to create personalized comments responding to these posts instead of generic comment templates they…
comments yes, because people have their guard down. Its just lazy. Good for them I guess, until they lose their accounts or someone like me notices and puts them on blast.
Re: The founder's playbook: Building an AI-native startup
#135I’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…
I demo'd an automated agent platform here and showed it doing PRs, and the CEO asked me what i'd do for a living after this did all my work for me, and I said, "What do you think that you do that an agent can't do?".
Re: The founder's playbook: Building an AI-native startup
#136Earlier quoted context omitted.
Their argument on page 10 is that now agentic coding reduces the effort of writing code there will be far more failures unless you validate the idea properly. We are actually seeing that in that the number of apps on the app stores is increasing but usage is not increasing. Some would argue that the right process will lead to the right results.
> there will be far more failures unless you validate the idea properly You are exactly correct! You're very insightful to see that AI is perfect for validating ideas. It's not just sucking up, it's swallowing. Would you like to delve into coding up a Synchopancy as a Service web site?
Hah. Poe's law.
Re: The founder's playbook: Building an AI-native startup
#137AI has changed the build for sure, it is a lot easier to build now, a lot easier to practice multiple copywriting ideas, do market research ... etc. There is something that will never change for being a founder, you need to sell, and for that you need network and credibility. It was never about the building, its all about the selling. AI has not changed that.
With all due respect this reads a little deranged. To sell something to the masses you fundamentally need a product to sell. I'll agree that how you market the product can be a "product" in itself, but that only gets you so far. If it was never not about the building why waterfall vs agile why velocity why stakeholder why business analysts why meetings why board members pushing for features? This is like when AI bros…
It doesn't read deranged at all to me.
To sell something to the masses you fundamentally need a product to sell. Agreed.
And you fundamentally need a way to find the customers for that product that need it at the time.
And you fundamentally need a way to interact with those customers that can persuade them to use your product.
Lots of aspects are vitally important to the overall success.
Re: The founder's playbook: Building an AI-native startup
#138Earlier quoted context omitted.
Outside of the tech/AI bubble, you'd be amazed at how few people can spot AI-generated content, and how few people seem to care if they think the AI-generated content speaks to their needs. I know a small business that generates many of their leads by responding to posts on social media. They recently started using AI to create personalized comments responding to these posts instead of generic comment templates they…
comments yes, because people have their guard down. Its just lazy. Good for them I guess, until they lose their accounts or someone like me notices and puts them on blast.
Nobody cares. That's the thing. If you're using AI in a relatively "thoughtful" way to more efficiently provide information that's of value, the average person isn't concerning themselves with the fact the end product was produced by AI.
Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn are flooded with AI content. A lot of it is "slop", yes, and it's kind of annoying if you know where it came from, but you're missing the big picture if you deny the reality, which is that if AI content is created in a way where it does have some value, average people appreciate the value and don't have some ideological hang-up over how it was created.
AI is just a tool. It can produce absolute rubbish, but it can also produce some decent stuff too.
Re: The founder's playbook: Building an AI-native startup
#139I’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…
I demo'd an automated agent platform here and showed it doing PRs, and the CEO asked me what i'd do for a living after this did all my work for me, and I said, "What do you think that you do that an agent can't do?".
While you're not wrong the problem is they own the company or the board listens to them. They have power they can use to keep existing while you don't. This is why AI is so scary to working professionals.
Re: The founder's playbook: Building an AI-native startup
#140Maybe it's better for startups to go with natural intelligence instead of artificial intelligence, just a thought