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The future is already here. And it is running in production. Applied Intelligence is a new publication from First Round on how real teams are building with AI. First up: Shopify. When tobi lutke made using AI an expectation, the team rebuilt how they work. They share workflows,

It's so funny to see how obvious it is now that "--" is a telltale sign that AI wrote your copy, response, or message.

FYI, I only just now discovered this, but you can prevent posts from specific accounts from appearing up in "For you" without muting or blocking, using lists. Here's how: 1. Create list 2. Add people whose posts you don't want to see 3. Check "Don't show these posts in For you"

The world market is much much bigger than me and my friends! Two principles at play here: 1) the more expert I am at something the less I tend to use entry level tools for that thing. 2) the easier a technology is to use, the more it changes behavior for late rather than early

Can’t help but imagine the Microsoft UX and bugginess of their products being injected into their version of vibe coding apps. Yet, like all Microsoft products it wins on distribution.

How do you tell the difference between an edge case that never becomes a bigger market, and something huge where you're encountering the crazy early adopters?

Terrible look for online sports gambling… Individual States are poorly run by Governors and State Houses with very little financial acumen. So they run deficits or miss allocate capital and then turn to simple, superficial ways to generate revenues like sports gambling. Turns

Is there an ai startup yet doing real time translation so I can wear AirPods in a room where someone is speaking a foreign language and I can hear in my headphones translated English?

What's the best podcast you've listened to (or Youtube) in the last few weeks that a non-technical founder working on an AI startup should listen to? Looking for some things to queue up for a long drive.

It's incredible what Lovable does for product development. I can have a phone call in the afternoon and have a full workflow mocked up in a couple hours that I can turn into a Loom and send to customers for immediate feedback the same day. That would take at least a day or two

Just had Fin the support AI hallucinate a feature that doesn’t exist in a product, but it convinced me to upgrade to get it 🤦‍♂️

I've been transferred to 5 different departments to try to get a phone plan tweak Verizon Support This is ridiculous.

Over-reliance on comp reduces companies to ATMs and people to chattel. It also messes up internal dynamics and external vibes, and if your main selling point is short-term liquidity then you won’t get true believers. Beyond dollars and GPUs, this is what you need to get (and

This is genius marketing 1) only for new accounts, so doesn’t touch your existing customers 2) great halo effect as its a tacit endorsement by Lenny 3) “while supplies last” so no risk of getting overwhelmed 4) most of these tools are about landing and expanding, so this is

It’s amazing how most people just let TSA scan their face even though it’s totally unnecessary and you can opt out without any delay for doing so.

Which bank has the best experience for new startups now? Mercury, Brex, or Ramp?

I don't know how digital nomads do it. A few days of trying to work while traveling while on a vacation and it's clear it creates a lot of friction.