Claude Blue: All of Silicon Valley Is Depressed
AI now writes more code than humans can review, yet of about 15 professionals asked across the US and Korea, not one felt a bottleneck or harm from AI.
Why a $1B Unicorn Aims for 10x, Not 10%
Fieldguide prices on the results customers achieve rather than seat count, and put its first office outside the US in Seoul, CEO Jin Chang told the room.
An Engineer Who Worked at DeepMind, xAI, and TML on AGI
Joseph Kim was the 100th member of xAI and now works at Thinking Machines Lab, and AB180 runs one internal automation that handled 800 pull requests.
Building an AI Startup in New York as a Foreigner
He raised 300 thousand dollars for 9 percent with no product, then narrowed from the whole workflow down to collections for mid-sized legacy firms.
He Moved to the AI Team to Buy Five More Years
He moved to Google's AI search team to survive five more years, and a colleague saw the first two weeks in ten years with no executive status request.
Crazy Ideas Beyond AI
An agent contacted all 85 requested buyers on LinkedIn overnight and about ten signed up, so the next idea has to be stranger, like Reflect Orbital.
A City of 30,000 Elon Musks
A founder who spent fifty days in the US and a Wall Street trained career coach reached the same conclusion: stop thinking and move.
Just Move to San Francisco
One founder clears the path for companies entering the US and UK. The other is building personalized cancer vaccines. Their advice to a room of Korean builders was not hedged.
Knowledge Work Is Already Over in America
Regulation looks like protection for knowledge work. Her argument is that it protects accountability, not the work itself, and those are very different things.
The $1B Unicorn Founder Who Never Spent a Day in School
No kindergarten, no elementary school, no high school. He taught himself from Wikipedia in rural Tennessee, learned Korean from music videos, and cofounded a company Sequoia backed.
FDE May Not Be the Answer
Forward deployed engineering is having a moment. An engineer who worked at a frontier lab thinks it is structurally inefficient, and pointed at what US firms and private equity are doing instead.
An Interview with an xAI Engineer
An engineer at xAI on what the frontier actually looks like from inside: the hours, the weekly meetings with Elon Musk, and the project that got taken away.