Jared Friedman

Software engineering changed more in the last 3 months than the preceeding 30 years. Everything about running a software company needs to be rethought from first principles.

Parahelp is one of the top vertical AI companies to come out of YC. They are automating support for AI-native companies like Perplexity, Replit, & ElevenLabs. Did a deep dive with the founders on how real agentic systems are built and their recent Series A with @jaltma.

We're at an interesting stage of the evolution where the models are 1000x faster than I am at coding and 10x slower at using a web browser.

I've been thinking about the reasons Moltbook feels so uncanny, so different from what we've seen before. - The agents now have tools that can **do things** not just generate text. They can write code and use the internet. They don't have physical bodies yet, but on the