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@mattzieger Plead the 5th

How many URLs do you personally own?

AI's $14 Billion Problem Has Nothing To Do With Models via @forbes forbes.com/sites/sandycar…

Jevons paradox is happening in real time. Companies, especially outside of tech, are realizing that they can now afford to take on software projects that they wouldn’t have been able to tackle before because now AI lets them do so. We’re going to start to use software for all new things in the economy because it’s incrementally cheaper to produce. Marketing teams at big companies will have engineers helping to automate workflows. Engineers in life sciences and healthcare will automate research. Small businesses will hire engineers for the first to build better digital experiences. And as long as AI agents still require a human who understands what to prompt, how to review when an agent goes off the rails, how it guide back, how to maintain the system that was built, how to fix the ongoing bugs, and more, we will still have humans managing these agents. This is why all the advice you get of not going into engineering is wrong. The world is going to increasingly be made up of software, and the people that understand it best will be in a strong economic position. This will happen in other roles as well where output goes up and demand increases.

@lennysan @mattzieger don’t you have a huge site for all of the AI job data?

The results from our latest reader poll: How has AI changed how you feel about your job? The short version: most people better about their work with AI, and yet also less secure in their role. People are also feeling more productive, but almost no one feels their workload has actually gone down. Respondents shared a fascinating mix of feelings: a sense of childlike wonder, coupled with deep frustration about the impossible pace of change and suffering from AI slop everywhere. (Shoutout @noamseg for running this poll, and to everyone who participated)

Waymo should let people buy the cars. They should then allow users to decide if they want the car dedicated to them or optionally enter it into Waymo service during certain times and hours (eg while they’re at work).

@thinkshiv I hear you @thinkshiv but if cos are built to de-risk/amplify long term value (in theory) and the volume of distribution/macro everything pretty much gives them a 1-2 year buffer because other folks share the mindset is it all just marketing for inflated acquisitions?

If you are enterprise leader and are dependent on reports like this you’re ngmi ☠️

The Delve scandal is the perfect excuse for me to write my long-simmering rant about SOC-2 and InfoSec. 1. 90% of SOC-2 is security theater. We couldn't pass audit until we had completed an annual performance review (absurd requirement for a team of 4). It is mind-boggling to me that we collectively decided to adopt an accounting framework (and accounting firms) to validate infosec. 2. SOC-2 startups are (at least in part) culpable for this mess, thanks to Jevon's Paradox. It's now "easier" to get it, so getting the certification is table stakes for an enterprise contract. "But Hari, startups can now sell to enterprise more easily" — nope. 3. I would argue that the approach for selling to enterprise was *better* prior to 2017: — Enterprises were more open to doing pilots without SOC-2, because it was harder to do and not table stakes. This is, obviously, a more efficient way to transact and explore ad hoc relationships. — You'd simply have to do actually useful things like pentesting, security questionnaires, etc. to show you were serious about security... which you have to do today anyway, because SOC-2 is a terrible proxy for real security. And enterprises have gotten easier to sell into, because they realized they need to be more tech forward. Correlation, not causation. SOC-2-as-table-stakes killed a more pragmatic, trust-based sales motion. All in all, the introduction of SOC-2 as an industry standard introduced *more* friction into the process, racked up *higher* costs for their customers, for ultimately the *same or worse* security outcomes. We would all be better off if we threw the standard in the trash, because then we might actually come up with something sensible. 4. Perhaps the Delve takedown was penned by a competitor, but — if the facts hold up — that doesn't make it any less valid. This is a wildly competitive space, and I've seen some truly nasty stuff happen, from an observer's seat. But people are using that to discredit the piece, even though the facts so far are pretty damning (regardless of the biases of the speaker). 5. All of the SOC-2 companies are roughly equivalent (no matter what they tell you), and you should optimize for a good service at a reasonable price and grit your teeth and get it done when you think you have enough PMF where enterprises might want it. 6. Don't even get me started on GDPR and CCPA. Cookie banners take quality-adjusted years off peoples' lives, just like cigarettes and the DMV. And just like SOC-2 is security theater, they are privacy theater. 7. Most importantly: getting dinged because you didn't pass security reviews has nothing to do with security. It means your buyer / champion didn't care enough to push it through. If you're sorely lacking, it might be an actual issue. You should (obviously) do the important stuff (vulnerability scans, pentests, 2FA, be careful with phishing), but after that... Spend your time building something that buyers want to rip out of your hands. Your security problems will start disappearing.

lol 🤣🤣🤣🤣

I hope you start doing the thing 🤍

Somehow this feels easier to use than normal GA?!?

Wow 🤯

MoltBot shows what agentic AI can really do when software has memory, autonomy, and deep system access. It also exposes a gap most security models weren’t built for. When agents store tokens, configs, and long-term memory as plain text on disk, a compromise doesn’t just expose credentials, it leaks context too. Security for agents can’t be a one-time approval. It’s about continuously mediating it. @jmeller breaks it down ⤵️ bit.ly/4boMvVX

🔥LFG! Well done and big congrats to @vxanand @kareemamin and team @clay on consistently doing things in your own way… which is setting a new standard for other high growth companies.

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Today in @NatureMedicine we report that AI can predict 130 diseases from 1 night of sleep🛌 We trained a foundation model (#SleepFM) on 585K hours of sleep recordings from 65K people—brain, heart, muscle & breathing signals combined. AI learns the language of sleep🧵

@GRoditiD I doodle future concepts/games/apps/inventions. Not often original but random stuff like a portable mini golf course, subscription diner attached to a chicken coop, multiple churches that come together at a central bakery in the same building, etc. It’s a lot more fun wi AI help

kinda wanna get a hobby in 2026. what is a good hobby for dads with no spare money and who only have free time in blocks that are 40 minutes or shorter and happen at completely unpredictable dates and times? it can’t be smoking cigarettes, thats way too expensive in CA these days

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Whoever at WorkOS implemented this: Thank you, thank you, I bless you, I bless your house, your family, the streets on which you walk, thank you thank you

Everyone wants enterprise b2b ACV, no one wants 6-12 month sales cycles, 200 point security questionnaires, redlines, net 60, white glove onboarding, services partner ecosystem, last minute procurement negotiation step, 14 page MSAs, champions that leave the company. 90-180 day activations, features built to save churn, Europe->Asia timezone sales calls, cringe outbound campaigns, SCIM, data deletion and portability process, msft ecosystem integrations (teams!), or EU data residency.