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Connecting AI is cheap.

Connecting AI is cheap. “Connecting things to our AI engines is cheap, and getting cheaper.” The post argues the bubble comparisons to railroads and telecom miss the key point: once the model exists, adding new use cases looks more like […]

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Default choices crown winners.

Default choices crown winners. “When millions vibe-code their way to a working app, the stacks it chooses become the stacks.” Amplifying surveyed 2,430 open-ended prompts across real repos to see what tools Claude Code actually installs and configures when you […]

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DoorDash’s real AI advantage.

DoorDash’s real AI advantage. In response to a viral AI doomer article, Stratechery went town on their silly example of Doordash being an AI-loser. “DoorDash not only has the most restaurant data, but also exclusive data in terms of customer […]

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The Anthropic hive mind.

The Anthropic hive mind. “Anthropic is unusually impenetrable as a company. Employees there all know they just need to keep their mouths shut and heads down and they’ll be billionaires and beyond, so they have lots of incentive to do […]

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Automate the entire company.

Automate the entire company. “One of our goals for the year is to automate the entire company. If we all go on vacation at the end of the year, the company should, in many ways, keep running without us.” A […]

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People want AI to do things.

People want AI to do things. “The pattern across all 3,000 skills is clear. People don’t want to talk with AI. They want AI to do things for them.” Someone scraped 3,000+ OpenClaw “skills” and treated it like a revealed-preferences […]

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Sequencing is a commodity.

Sequencing is a commodity. “Sequencing has become a commodity, like a bag of flour or a gallon of gas — everyone likes cheaper commodities.” A San Diego startup called Element claims its new VITARI device can deliver a whole genome […]

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Lab test resellers are go to court.

Lab test resellers are go to court. Function says Superpower ran a “sweeping campaign of deception” by marketing “100+ biomarkers” even though some are “algorithmically derived” rather than directly measured. Two preventative-health rivals, both outsourcing diagnostics to Quest, are now […]