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💬 @dhh: "the programming language of the future is English" Even bigger shift is that ambiguity becomes a feature I think. You describe intent, direction, and guide taste. Agents figure out the rest. The scarce skill moves from writing precise instructions to knowing what good looks like. Code → intent At what point do we stop calling this programming?

Apple is becoming more and more the DMV of software.

💬 Paul Graham on the benefits of joining an accelerator like YC: 🤝 You get colleagues Starting a startup is usually lonely. In an accelerator you’re surrounded by other founders building alongside you, even if everyone is working on their own startup. 🧠 You learn from other startups If you hit a technical or operational issue, there’s a good chance another startup in the batch has dealt with it already, so you can ask how they solved it. 💸 You get a built-in early customer base You can often sell your product to other startups in the batch, who are exactly the kind of users you want - early adopters who decide quickly.

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Churn doesn’t happen when a customer cancels. That’s just when you notice it. Your goal should be to act on signals that the customer is at risk and engage before the cancellation happens.

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Anyone doing engineering or product management needs to watch this. DHH on why the agentic age is a revelation: @lexfridman I think what programmers do well, good programmers do well, is systematic design, like think in terms of systems and rigor. And I think still, and probably for a long time to come, even natural language-based control of agentic systems will require a certain kind of rigor. Not overly structured rigor, but really explain very specifically the goals of the system, how to do the verification, what kind of security testing. You wanna do all those kinds of things. Although then to push back on that, the system will… should be smart longer term. @dhh I would’ve said the same thing six months ago. Lex Fridman Yeah, so this has changed. DHH And I think the same thing would’ve been true six months ago. What I have found since, especially even just the last few weeks of the agentically accelerated development of Omarchy, is that more often than not, I have the humility to recognize that the agent knows best. Lex Fridman You can legitimately say, “Make sure it’s secure.” DHH Correct. And it would know more about what that entails. Lex Fridman What a crazy world. ... Lex Fridman The interaction with the agentic system, if you create a nice interface for yourself, it can be super fun, and you’re focusing on the design part and the most fun parts of the design part. DHH Correct. And this is what humans are really good at. Lex Fridman Yeah, taste. DHH Differential evaluation. You give me three options, I pick one of them. Now, humans actually fall off a cliff if you give them 22 options. That’s the paradox of choice. But you give them three options, they very quickly within a split second will tell you what they like. There are all these ways that exploit the fact that humans will make these snap judgments that are actually pre-intellectual, right? Like, they’re coming from the gut, and then they arrive up in the brain, and the brain tries to rationalize why the gut said what it said. And if you’re willing to let go of some of that intellectual pre-processing rationalization and simply let your gut drive, the agentic age is a revelation.

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Got only 20 minutes to check into this - already great! The best thing about the best founders / people building stuff is that raw, energetic optimism. We're living through the best time ever to build things, and seeing other people share that optimism and energy somehow makes it even more invigorating! I usually listen to podcasts in the background. Short breaks between work. This one I’m saving for a bigger block of time. Saturday, coffee, and just diving in. Onward! 🤘

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Happy Monday. In today’s news: – Anthropic Claude Opus 5 5⃣ – Jensen Huang debuts on 𝕏 👋 – Meta Facebook Verified 👥 – SpaceX Starship's 13th flight 🚀 – Midjourney × Co-Star 🤝 – @etnshow $1.6M raise 💵 – @ti_morse × @sama 🎙️ – @garrytan × @JensenHuang 🎙️ – @davidsenra × @dhh 🎙️ Sending out in 15 minutes ✉️

Struggling with distribution? 5 tactical tips @floriandarroman learned from successful SaaS founders: 1⃣ Turn content into more content Publish on YouTube, then share the results, lessons and behind-the-scenes growth on 𝕏 – @FlorinPop17 2⃣ Find a product that needs distribution Instead of searching for a technical co-founder to build from zero, partner with someone who already has a working product but struggles with growth – @tibo_maker 3⃣ Double down on video A small YouTube video can drive more customers than a viral 𝕏 post. Buyer intent > reach – @indexsy 4⃣ Build a LinkedIn lead-magnet loop Post something valuable, ask people to comment for the full resource, then send it directly and start the conversation – @romanbuildsaas 5⃣ Create a new category Don’t compete as another generic tool. Reposition around an emerging shift, like turning a standard scheduler into an AI-agent-first product – @wickedguro

We might have cracked going viral on 𝕏 🤙 All from posts over the last two days on @shortcutdotnews (fewer than 200 followers atm)