2026 founder trend: The winners will be the ones who best combine autonomous AI agents with human creativity.
The leverage gap is widening fast.
As a founder, do you see AI agents as a replacement, an assistant, or something entirely new?
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Alan Seong
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Alan Seong
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A few founders in my network are hiring engineers. If you are exploring/interested, DM me and happy to refer!
They are venture-backed, fast-moving teams, and looking for high-agency engineers who ship fast and thrive in 0->1 environments.
Roles with preferences for NY/SF and across AI, DeFi trading, or stablecoins.
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It’s been a real mindset shift getting comfortable "vibe coding" and shipping imperfect code.
Still feels unnatural after years in big tech, trained to review, critique, and polish everything.
speed over perfection 🧠⚡️
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Been deep in vibe coding mode lately 🔥
Pushing extra hard, running on both Claude Code + Cursor concurrently, 1.5B tokens and counting
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We're excited to announce that Frontrun has been acquired by Anthropic AI in a $141M transaction.
Frontrun founder @goatgdv will be joining Anthropic's product team to lead AI-native trading infrastructure, bringing smarter trade analysis, natural language portfolio management, and intelligent risk detection.
More details soon.
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The best product decisions come from watching what people actually use, not what they say.
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@GadzhiIman Agree, at least for now. AI has been a huge force multiplier for operators but not a replacement.
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I've yet to see a single department fully replaced by AI.
I run multiple companies and we use AI across all of them. We've both built and licensed AI tools internally.
Every implementation still needs a human on top of it.
AI makes people faster, but it doesn't make people unnecessary.
If someone's selling you on firing your team and replacing them with agents, they probably don't run a real operation.
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>1 in 3 startups are now solo-founded, up 50%+ since 2019!
It’s never been easier to start, but it’s still a brutal grind most days 😂
My current 2026 setup:
🛠️ Me (strategy+code)
🤖 AI (repetitive stuff)
🧠 Human EA (to handle the chaos)
Any solo founders here? What's your stack + productivity hack?
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i still love @cursor_ai but lately it feels a bit dumber or lazier. used to feel psychic. now i'm double checking and prompting more.
either that or i'm getting lazier and my prompts are getting worse… who is using cursor vs claude code?
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@HarryStebbings Funny definition of ‘dead’
most tools would kill for 1.3B ARR and a 2B run rate.
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Cursor is dead, Cursor is dead, Cursor is dead.
Well can someone then explain to me how they are at $1.3BN in ARR closing the year at $2BN????
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growth solves everything 📈🦄🚀
- cofounder conflicts
- bad customers
- bad employees
- bad investors
what else? :)
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@Star_Knight12 Not literally “unemployed.”
Having a job is a tradeoff:
real problems, real data, real workflows to automate
– less deep, uninterrupted time
You can still keep up with AI by carving out focused time and using your job as a testing ground, not a blocker.
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@cryptopunk7213 Yup. Everyone’s racing to ship their own OpenClaw skin, but the real separation will be: who actually gets agents doing useful, unsupervised work for normal people vs. who just ships another shiny wrapper. The gold rush is UI; the moat is autonomy + reliability.
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so we now have:
- OpenClaw
- perplexity OpenClaw (perplexity computer)
- anthropic openclaw (cowork)
- miniature openclaw (picoclaw)
- secure openclaw (ironclaw)
- chinese openclaw (kimi k2.5)
- enterprise openclaw (openai frontier)
the future is 100% agentic. get the fuck on board.
Perplexity@perplexity_ai
Introducing Perplexity Computer. Computer unifies every current AI capability into one system. It can research, design, code, deploy, and manage any project end-to-end.
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i keep hearing
- "can @openclaw🦞do this?"
- "how are you different from openclaw?"
- "I am replacing/testing {X} with openclaw."
is that really true, or are we in a hype? how are you actually using it at your startup or what are your customers really doing with it?
super excited about it, but still trying to figure out what's hype vs real usage
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Everyone will soon have “AI Anxiety.”
Naval@naval
Feels like everyone in tech is developing “AI Anxiety.”
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The biggest shift I see when founders start getting real leverage from a good EA:
From “Can you do this?”
To “Here’s how I think about this.”
That one change compounds fast.
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