Hunter Walk
The AI Vampire; Startup Tolan Changes How It Hires Engineers in an AI World; Do You Back Into Parking Spots?; Social Engineer Hacks Against AI Agents; and More++ [link blog]
No Coding Before 10am; VCs Are Investing in Competing Companies – DGAF About Conflicts; “Technology is Not Destiny” – Principles for AI’s Future; and +++ [link blog]
“You’d also maybe be surprised how many X thinkbois hate on the media publicly but don’t behave the same in private” – reporter Jason Del Rey on going Indie with The Aisle, who inspires him, and why he failed to pay enough attention the the ChatGPT launch
“So say you’re against that. Now. Before it stops shocking you.”
GitHub Cofounder on Becoming a VC: “For me this is much more than a financial game. I want to fund founders that want to create a better future for PEOPLE.” Five Questions With Tom Preston-Werner.
So You Want To Watch YouTube
The LLM Way of Life; Boss Gives $240 Million to Workers; Connecting Ice Cream Trucks to Ukraine’s War; and +++ [link blog]
“I deeply regret not paying more attention to AI as a field before the release of ChatGPT. Like everyone, I’m certainly paying attention now!” More Truths and Advice from Sources Founder reporter Alex Health
How Reliable Does AI Actually Need to Be?; Building a Career in Tech These Days is Hard; Backchannel References Are Lazy; Mac & Cheese is Changing; and More+++ [link blog]
My Mother-in-Law Wanted to Visit a Data Center. This Holiday, “Are we in an AI bubble?” Went Mainstream.
Should It Be Easier To Sue Influencers for Defamation?; 2025 Was the Year Self-Driving Car Optimism Went Mainstream; a Startup CEO’s Annual Learnings Post; a Podcast Where I Spoke for 43% of the Time; and +++ [link blog]
Org Charts Are Funhouse Mirrors Because Span of Influence is Not Limited to Span of Control
Graphite Gets Bought By Cursor: Three Reflections from Six Years of Work [PMF didn’t happen right away; working IRL mattered; three founders, three distinct roles]
Waymo’s CEO Isn’t Like Elon At All; Venture Capital Might Soon Depend on $1 Trillion Startups; Everyone is Gambling and No One is Happy; Are MCPs Just APIs 2.0? and more++++ [link blog]
Technical CEO Described How He Screwed Up Sales; Startup Operating Principles from an Ex-Stripe Founder; Most Leaders Move Too Slowly; and MORE [link blog]
Does valuation or ownership matter more to a seed VC? Yes.
Bodegas Aren’t Going Anywhere; Degen Economics is Hollowing Out Society; the New Electric Tech Stack; and more++ [link blog]
Vice Signaling is Poisoning Tech; Playing Entrepreneur on ‘Hard Mode’ is Worth Doing; OpenAI Won’t Build Every Dev Tool; and more++ [link blog]
“I tend to manage via a mix of advice and opportunity” – what I told a young product manager 15 years ago. And how it applies to startups today.
Smart AI Guidelines for Students: It’s Not All or Nothing
Why I No Longer Care About Startup Valuation When I Invest (Except for These Four Reasons)
When is Institutional Capital Right for a New VC Firm? And Two Myths About The Downsides of Taking LP Money.
It might not be true, but it is real. AI, SF and our culture.
Headcount isn’t a KPI, but talent density should be
Tech Reporter Alex Konrad on Going Independent with Upstarts, What Drives Subscribers (vs Just Views) and How He Uses AI in His Content Creation
S**t Shoveling
AI Buying Software Instead of Salespeople; Teaching Companies To Do Less; Have the Swiss Figured Out Cheaper Housing? and +++ [link blog]
When Slack Went Down All The Time; AI is Learning to Lie in Order to Win; Your Org Chart is About Power Centers; and +++ [link blog]
Why Marketing Sucks Right Now, Underground Robot Fights, Free Waffles Worth $50, and +++ [link blog]
No Notes: Near Perfect Posts on AI Ruining the Public Web, Silicon Valley Etiquette, the Fear of a Second Success, and +++ [Link Blog]
$CHYM TIME: The Three Boxes Chime’s IPO Checked for Me