The Horizontal Shift: Why AI is Bigger than “Job Replacement” Most people still view AI through the narrow lens of reducing or replacing specific tasks and jobs. However, the real impact lies in a different dimension—the horizontal layers of our civilization. Even now, we can begin coding with little to no formal knowledge of programming languages because AI handles the heavy lifting. While many shout that “engineers are obsolete,” the reality is more complex. ...
The Web Bidding Era. We are used to typing keywords into a search box to get a list of websites. That era is over. Soon, you will not search for websites at all. You will just tell your device what you want to do. Instead of you scrolling through pages, your AI agent will go out and find the best data for your request. In this new model, websites are no longer visual destinations. They are just raw data points. ...
The Death of Persuasion. For the last 100 years, the economy has been built on marketing and sales. You had to convince a human—with all their biases, laziness, and emotions—to choose your product. But in a world of autonomous agents, that entire layer collapses. People are getting tired of the internet. They do not want to think hard or even search for things. This is why influencers still earn money. Now, people actively install tools like OpenClaw with all their credentials exposed without a second thought. They just want the AI to run it without any harmful purpose and do it all for the given prompt. ...
A few years ago, when my company secured an investment, the conversation turned to the tech budget. When the CEO asked how much engineering would need, I asked for their initial thoughts. The answer: around 10% of the raise. The reasoning was simple. We have a decent platform. For over a year, we’ve had zero major issues—no downtime, no data loss, no corruption. Because engineering has been doing its job, day and night. And as usual, no one remembered how someone fixed a bug at 3AM. ...
When I worked in a big corporation, I often stayed late. One day, my boss said, “Go home, do not work too late, and we can do it later.” The next day, as soon as he came into the office. The first thing he said to me was, “It is done, right?” People often say things they think they should say to show off that they are a nice boss. But when they stop thinking and just speak, they show their natural desire. ...
“Why I can’t find my CTO? 🤔” Several months ago, I joined YC cofounder matching platform and read around 4,200 profiles, and personally, I met some of them. Some founders already run their business over several years without a CTO, and, of course, they rely on their initial product by the outsourcing companies and or fractional CTO. Some of their businesses grow well, while others are still under development or idea stage. Some told me that they already had one or 2 CTOs before, some tried to hire an employee as a CTO instead of the co-founder. But still they look for a new CTO. ...
If you are an aspiring founder and you don’t have a co-founder, one of the approaches you can think about is joining a startup program to provide opportunities to mingle with cohort members through the programs. You can meet lots of like-minded people within a short period of time, and typically, these programs will guide you on how to choose your ideal co-founders through some mini-series of the program. Within a month or two, you could determine if your team is a good fit or not. 😃 ...