The bottleneck of current AI is simple: the techniques we use are still predicated on pattern memorization and retrieval, and thus they need *someone* to tell them which patterns to memorize (training data, RL envs…) That role cannot yet be played by AI in a truly open-ended
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Technological Inversion: Military to Civil and Back with AI
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Until roughly the 1970s, most civilian technological progress was downstream of military technological progress. The trend has since inverted. Today most of the modern (e.g. Ukraine) military playbook comes from consumer tech from the past two decades. With AI entering the
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AI agents will increase software usage tenfold
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"But humans will stop using all this software, it will be AI agents instead!" — Great, then these services will see 10x more usage.
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AI as Knowledge Tool vs Cognitive Outsourcing
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The best way to use AI is an interface to information that lets you deepen and improve your own knowledge and mental models. The worst way to use AI is as a crutch to outsource and forsake your own cognition
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Code Ease Benefits Legacy SaaS More Than Startups
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I genuinely think "code is now much easier to write and features are much easier to ship" strictly benefits legacy SaaS because it addresses their main weakness
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SaaS Cloning Economics: How AI Coding Changes Development Costs
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Cloning any random piece of SaaS is something that could already be done before agentic coding, and the economics of it haven't changed meaningfully. Before, writing the clone would cost 0.5-1% of the valuation of the legacy SaaS company. Now it might be 0.1%. It doesn't make a
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Technology benefits software builders, not the broader narrative
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In other words, technology that makes it easier to build software and that unlocks new and more powerful types of software will primarily benefit… those who focus on building software, in particular software for the software economy. Yet somehow, the dominant narrative is
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AI-Powered SaaS Tools Benefit from Growing Software Startup Ecosystem
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If more people can build software, there will be more software startups and side businesses. Which means SaaS tool builders that cater to such startups will benefit from massive AI tailwinds: 1. Their customer base will expand 2. AI makes their job easier, so they can better
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ARC-AGI-3 Quickstart: Build AGI Solver Agents Locally
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If you're feeling like inventing AGI today, check out the new ARC-AGI-3 quickstart. You can get started building your own solver agent in minutes, locally, and you can run your experiments at 150,000 APM.
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ARC-AGI-3 Toolkit Released for AI Research Agents
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One of the best ways to contribute directly to the current frontier of AI research is to build agents that can solve ARC-AGI-3 environments with human-level efficiency. Today we're releasing a toolkit that lets you interact with all public environments locally, at 2000 FPS. You