Three years and a trillion dollars into ChatGPT, AI still hasn't moved the GDP needle beyond benchmarks.

The startup dictionary got a makeover. Series A is now pre-seed, and every Docker container became an RL environment.

Levels and his friends all hit the same wall. No new ideas worth building when AI progress turned iterative.

Atlassian killed Loom by forcing login on repeat views, optimizing for PM performance reviews over user sanity.

Claude Code Skills felt painful at first, then suddenly enabled speeds never imaginable once workflows locked in.

Engineers now sit in support calls and inject AI everywhere. High empathy technical people became the ultimate strategic weapon.

Notion raised at 322x revenue in 2021, then grew revenue 19x while valuation moved 10%. Patient capital wins.

Harvard published an underrated lecture on building products that scale, and indie makers should steal every lesson.

The job market flipped. Startups need senior people managing agents, not juniors building. Solo non-technical founders still waiting.

Founder OS wants a COO who can architect calm at scale. Ten grand referral bonus if they stick 90 days.

Chief storytellers fail without top-down support. Metrics always crush storytelling when only short-term wins get tracked.

Every is showcasing six products and a feedback loop where agents fix issues without humans. Demo day Friday.

Substack ditched their principled anti-ad stance because premium subscriptions only scale so far before needing subsidized access.