SaaStr: “Don’t try to compete on models. Compete on what you build on top of them. The winners will be the companies that deeply understand specific workflows in specific industries and build AI that solves those problems end-to-end.”
FT on life in a depopulating world: “Picture your street in 2100, presuming climate change hasn’t washed it away. With half the population, some homes have been combined into vast single residences. Other buildings have been torn down, to make way for cooling mini-jungles. The future inhabitant of your home, born in 2026, now in their seventies — which by that time might be considered middle age — could find life cornucopian.”
Siddhant Khare: “If you’re an engineer who uses AI daily – for design reviews, code generation, debugging, documentation, architecture decisions – and you’ve noticed that you’re somehow more tired than before AI existed, this post is for you. You’re not imagining it. You’re not weak. You’re experiencing something real that the industry is aggressively pretending doesn’t exist. And if someone who builds agent infrastructure full-time can burn out on AI, it can happen to anyone.”
Suzanne Vranica: “When you set out to do an ad, you want to brief all the constituents. You want to put out a brief that says, “This is what I’m looking for.” You’ve got AI doing all of that grunt work right now. You’ve got AI doing production work. We used to have storyboards. Now you can get AI to basically create an ad. It’s not going to run on air, but it’s something that you can present to a client or you can get a feel for and you can tweak it and then really film it. So it’s that underbelly that it’s playing right now, but this technology is improving so quickly. There are companies like Mondelēz and others that have spent the last two years feeding these bots, all of their old advertising, all of their brand books and positioning so that these things get smarter. And those are the companies when they decide to turn it on and say, “Go create an ad,” you’re not going to be able to tell the difference between what’s now called AI slop and what looks like a perfectly created spot. We’re a little bit away from that at this point, but we’re going to get there.”
