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Building a product in the age of AI
Joao Carvalho describes building Open Poker after hours with coding agents: owning product direction, splitting development and production agents, a three-hour end-to-end rehearsal, and controls that survive model churn.
8 min · 1,910 words
How to Combine AI Answers into One: Answer Combination Is Live
StudyArena's Answer Combination turns three AI responses into one synthesis showing consensus, disagreements, unique insights, and claims to verify.
5 min · 1,139 words
The Harness Is the CompanyWhy SaaS business is now a harness one.
Every SaaS business will become a harness around a model. Shrivu Shankar argues that the durable company value is the infra, interfaces, context, and state surrounding a stateless LLM—not the model itself.
5 min · 1,180 words
Shreyans Salecha argues venture capital misuses Buffett’s “moat” metaphor: enduring castles fit Berkshire’s forever holdings, while early startups usually lack real durable advantages and invent story-moats instead.
3 min · 652 words
Building Brand Systems for Humans & Agents Today
Little Plains argues brand kits are becoming dual-native knowledge bases: human-readable guidelines plus agent-readable ~400-token chunks (YAML/JSON/Markdown) so teams and agents share the same positioning and voice.
5 min · 1,226 words
Meet Stripe's Knowledge AI Platform
Stripe's Knowledge AI Platform is our versatile AI agent platform built to handle diverse non-coding knowledge work, from quick queries to complex, multi-day projects. By connecting employees to over 1,000 internal tools and skills, it enables secure, enterprise-scale productivity across the organization.
8 min · 1,870 words
Side-stepping the Secretary Problem, unwittingly.
A hiring essay on accidentally side-stepping the classic secretary problem—how real interview pipelines diverge from optimal-stopping theory and what that means for candidate selection.
11 min · 2,529 words
Matthias Endler pushes back on Silicon Valley hustle culture and "move fast and break things", arguing for sustainable growth, robust software, small bootstrapped businesses, and a long-term mindset over chasing exponential, VC-funded scale.
6 min · 1,344 words
Pattern Matching Beats Narrative Reasoning
Scott Stevenson argues that his losing bets in business and investing came from short, compelling narratives, while winning bets came from pattern matching that is hard to explain in words. He covers multi-causality, legibility bias, intuition, team decision-making, and independent-mindedness.
7 min · 1,656 words
Tyler Hogge argues that intensity, a culture of raising the quality bar, increasing speed and narrowing focus to an extreme degree, is the most important trait of exceptional startups, drawing on his own experience at three breakout companies and examples from founders like Steve Jobs, Brian Chesky and Sam Altman.
3 min · 586 words
The cost of lies: A Mineserver story
Jeremy Reimer recounts how Robert X. Cringely's 2015 Mineserver Kickstarter, tiny ARM Minecraft servers for 388 backers, never shipped, and how years of missed deadlines, excuses and ever-larger claims on his blog, including a fire said to have destroyed the finished units, eroded his credibility. His lesson: lies to save face end up costing the one thing that matters.
16 min · 3,679 words