The AI Startup Litmus Test

In a pre-AI world, in order to build an application, you needed to reduce your idea to a process—a set of rules by which your software would operate to accomplish the goal you set. Sometimes this was easy; for example, a customer relationship manager like Salesforce is naturally reducible to rules.

In a post-AI world, you can build applications for ... See more

A lot of the focus on AI use, especially in the corporate world, has been stuck in what I call the “automation mindset” - viewing AI primarily as a tool for speeding up existing workflows like email management and meeting transcription. This perspective made sense for earlier AI models, but it's like evaluating a smartphone solely on its ability to... See more

AI has a UI problem @OpenAI's decade of research worked when it became a chat UI @cursor_ai fastest growing saas when they baked co-pilot into the editor UI @meetgranola entered and scaling in the most AI saturated market with human agency UI Design is the differentiator