When I started Raiz Capital, I chose the name because I appreciate a good pun. But over the last six months, it became clear that a better name was waiting in the wings. linkedin.com/feed/update/urn… @Founders_Edge

Most interesting thing about dubdub was that John Ternus didn't take the stage.

We’re hosting our demo event - Ditch The Deck as part of #techweek #techweekboston. 5 live AI demos from Boston founders. No slides… hope folks can join. partiful.com/e/2A6f866uiX6dz…

Coming back from LA and was super impressed with the Waymo experience. Boston needs this. It fills the gap for a poor train infrastructure.

Hosting two events for TechWeek in Boston For founders - partiful.com/e/2A6f866uiX6dz… For investors - partiful.com/e/OVqaGkkARAh35…? #techweek #bostontechweek #bostechweek

Anthropic went $1B → $30B ARR in 16 months. For context, 1,000 customers now each spend $1M /year on Claude - that number doubled in 2 months. Claude Code went from $0 to $2.5B ARR in 9 months.

Everyone's worried about AI slop. But let's be honest: most software has been slop for decades. We just called it "shipping." The typical software product for decades has been mediocre. Details get skipped. UX is an afterthought. Known best practices get ignored. Why? Because doing it right was too expensive, too slow, too hard to justify in a sprint. The dirty secret is that it has never been a knowledge problem. We knew autocomplete would be better. We knew inline validation helps. We knew smart defaults and thoughtful integrations made products stickier. We just couldn't afford the engineering time to build them. AI changes the cost curve of craftsmanship. The niceties that got cut from every roadmap, the "wouldn't it be nice if" features, are now buildable. AI doesn't get lazy. It doesn't cut corners because the sprint is ending. We're not replacing human quality with AI slop. We're replacing human shortcuts with AI thoroughness. This is exactly what we focus on FoundersEdge. We invest in experienced founders building at the intersection of AI and user experience, because the biggest opportunity isn't replacing humans. It's replacing the compromises humans were forced to make. So before you call something AI slop, hold up a mirror. Look at what we've been shipping for years. Look at the corners we cut and the experiences we settled for. AI isn't lowering the bar. We had the bar on the floor. I, for one, welcome our new AI overlords.

I don't see too many people being critical of OpenClaw. It's cool in terms of what it can do... mostly emergent behavior of an LLM with full permissions and few security checks. The actual UX, web-interface, CLI interface, integration w/ WhatsApp or iMessage is all pretty poor. I've been using my own CLI "Personal Chief of Staff" built on the Claude code foundation. OpenClaw was first but more are coming.

I've never written a line of rust code but perhaps teams should be prompting for Rust rather than defaulting to python? Switching languages is just a prompt away, maybe I can get better perf and be rid of pip python3 venv hell.

According to Claude, I'm absolutly right.

The data says exactly the opposite. According to Entrepreneurs in High Technology study from MIT, there's a positive relationship between # of co-founders and positive trajectory. Not even including the 18 co-founders of Alibaba.

This.

If I organized the Vibe Coding Olympics Games. What would the categories be? How would you judge the winner?

Apple products this year, two innovations. A thinner iPhone, and air Pods can do real-time translation. Ok but it's a trillion-dollar company. Most of the stuff they announced is incremental and derivative. - AI and Siri still meh. - Vision Pro still meh. - Apple TV stuck in the past. - iPhone has looked the same for 5 years Apple needs founder-mode again and Tim can't do it.

Claude Code 503 upstream error and global engineering productivity crawls to a halt.

What's the difference between GPT-4 and GPT-4o-mini? The latter is 120x cheaper. Changing that string in your code may have a huge impact on your bill.

💰 Congrats to Figma, ~$300B in unicorn value ready to go: Stripe, Databricks, Canva, Discord, Anduril, Anthropic, OpenAI, Ramp, Cerebras, Klarna, Netskope, Deel, Holtec. All could IPO in the next year or two. #IPO #Unicorns

Solar power is actually harnessing nuclear power with none of the radiation or meltdown risk.

🤖 Emoji in debug statements is the em dash of AI code generation.

Rather surprising that in 2025 Apple still can’t lead when it comes to AI

We're hosting an event in NYC - showcasing interesting startups building AI software willing to demo and show off what they are working on. lu.ma/eljm9xms What are you working on? Add a comment.