Punch Yourself in the Face with Reality
This piece critiques the tendency of startup founders to use AI as a tool for procrastination rather than solving actual user problems. It suggests that true success comes from engaging with reality rather than just increasing the speed of building irrelevant features.
Why it matters
It provides a critical perspective on the 'AI hype' cycle and its impact on startup methodology.
Who can punch themselves in the face with reality the most? This is who will win in the age of AI.
I think there are two ways to use AI. You can just go off the deep end and start building a crazy amount of things. While it can be fun with your dozens of Claude and ChatGPT and agents and all that, most of it will be abandoned and not get used by anyone in the long term. And this is where you start getting things like AI slop and psychosis and all the things that people are starting to hate about AI generated anything.
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