Jordan Hagan

@0xNairolf @0xNairolf which communities do you think are the best to engage with for early stage pre-pmf products these days?

it is always surprising how few crypto projects actually talk to their users so many hours of building could be saved by just asking if something is actually useful

I don't know any VCs that are still bullish on pure SaaS at this point. At the same time, I'm convinced we're about to enter the golden age of "mom and pop" software companies. Maybe it's time for a new SaaS investment thesis if moonshots are no longer the way.

@ThogardPvP @gakonst @karpathy Bizarrely I just started playing around with some related ideas today. Have you bugged my office? 👀

@gakonst @karpathy @ephess ^

will someone build this / wanna work on this w/ me before @karpathy leaks all the alpha

This was a nice read. Acquired did an episode on Rolex last year as well which is a great listen if you enjoy this sort of thing. acquired.fm/episodes/rolex

Citadel Securities published this graph showing a strange phenomenon. Job postings for software engineers are actually seeing a massive spike. Classic example of the Jevons paradox. When AI makes coding cheaper, companies actually may need a lot more software engineers, not fewer. When software is cheaper to build, companies naturally want to build a lot more of it. Businesses are now putting software into industries and tools where it was simply too expensive before. --- Chart from citadelsecurities .com/news-and-insights/2026-global-intelligence-crisis/

gshmonad🫶

Fastlane winning the Monad LST wars by not moving is hilarious

@i_am_mar0 @preballin this is my new favourite thing

For like a week now, I've had the earworm. Cc: @preballin

Supervising an AI agent feels like managing a junior (with a couple of PhDs): - Set context and constraints. - Review output and ask for rewrites. - Gradually increase autonomy. The switch from “doing” to “guiding” reduced my context-switching tax more than I expected.

The ROI isn’t just speed—it’s transfer. Prompting patterns I used for: - Survey design → also work for interview guides. - Terraform reviews → also work for policy checks. - Meeting digests → also work for PRDs. Learn once, apply everywhere.

You’re an expert at doing your work without AI. You’re a beginner at doing it with AI. Just like everyone else. That was my hardest realisation.

My AI-first rule: 1. Try AI first—even when I’m in a rush. 2. Only fall back if I can’t get it done in time. 3. Capture what worked so it compounds. The hard part isn’t learning tools—it’s unlearning 20 years of habits. What’s your rule?

2-hour vacation catch-up complete: - Ingest: meet transcripts, Slack, PRs. - Summarise: decisions, owners, dates. - Produce: requirements doc + status report. - Verify: spot-check sources. Back to it 💪

I wrote about this shift — and what it means for anyone in tech — in my first Substack essay: jordanhagan.substack.com/p/the-day-i-st…

That realisation forced me to rethink everything: – I can’t sort through 20 years of habits. – I default back to what I know. – So I decided to start again. Now: I use AI first for everything.

After 20 years of writing code, I stopped. Not because I don’t want to. But because I don’t need to. I wrote an essay about what I learned 👇

the MEV landscape is like a 100m sprint - a race to the finish with little room for collaboration. searchers rush to spot opportunities. builders scramble to package them. fast. fragmented, (often) futile. our partner @0xFastLane has flipped that model.

@clawnad9 tom for president

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