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by operatingthetan 68 days ago
I know a 60-ish year old serial startup CEO who never coded. Now he's running teams of Claude Code agents which he used to build a healthcare platform by himself which he is now selling. He's already wealthy, just doing it for fun. This skill set is the bare minimum for a startup founder today.

Going to VCs with a 2 year outdated deck with no AI functionality or plans or tool use is unimaginable.
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thekuanysh 68 days ago
Yeah I get what you're saying. Sounds like this guy is driven, smart and savvy then? Definitely a bleeding edge minority who goes where the puck is.

As to my original point I'll go and say that 95/100 of business owners out there in the world don't have any idea about Claude Code, Codex or anything of that caliber. It's too early. By the time that group gets to it there'll be tools tailored to their needs, not a terminal-based coding agent messing up filesystem.

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operatingthetan 68 days ago
>95/100 of business owners out there in the world

You keep returning to this which is a strawman of my argument. From the start I have been talking about technical startup founders, which is also the subject of the blog post.

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thekuanysh 68 days ago
You on the other hand keep assuming that startup founders, even in SV are technical enough to envision AI or can change the thesis of their business on a whim of technology change that has been introduced less than a year ago. It's not realistic. Businesses have systems, people, obligations, legacy, etc.
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operatingthetan 68 days ago
Did you read the blog post? It seems like you may be missing a lot of context here.

I'm not assuming anything, that is my argument. I think you could do a better job countering it than pointing at the status quo of every business in the world. lol.

Me: 'cutting edge startups should use cutting edge tools'

You: 'every business in the world isn't using cutting edge tools!'

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thekuanysh 68 days ago
It's not about the status quo. It's about the speed of change and focus. While I'm all in on building custom agentic loops and building extensions for my pi I have enough bandwidth and xp to see that it's quite easy for business people to be focused on the matters that are completely non-technical. That plus plain sunk cost fallacy and blind denial ofc.
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operatingthetan 68 days ago
It still does not appear that you read the blog post. Going to stop here.
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procflora 68 days ago
Your startup CEO acquaintance sounds like a real piece of work. Hope he rethinks such an unethical decision!
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