a clear failure mode I'm seeing for pre-2021 startups: 1. distribution advantage isn't strong enough to fend off AI-native competitors 2. founders aren't hands-on enough with product to rebuild for AI

Nov 5, 2025 · 7:44 PM UTC

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What do you mean by AI native? Building using AI or product integrating AI (or both)?
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... there are a lot of tech debt nightmares out there that are going to get crushed when they try to incorporate AI. The irony of this is, is debt isn't a development problem, it's an organizational problem, but debt just confuses the model.
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AI shifted the terrain so much that what used to be a moat is now a ditch.
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Strong agree. Bunch of horseless carriages. Not see enough talk about how ai native workflows are often fundamentally different and thus adding AI to existing workflows is just a stopgap on journey of ai adoption.
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It really is a different universe we’re living in, hard to shake off the SaaS tendencies
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Man. That's a great take cause a lot of these products sure look bad vs any agentic dev workflow atm.
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is it mostly a mindset gap or just skill ceiling?
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Do you think MCP is there to stay?
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True even for 2021-early 2023.
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That’s why startups have a change every tech cycle. No matter what incumbents not gonna be fast and open minded.
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FACTS!
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This is absolutely true. There are some limited AI features added but it is obviously slapped on.
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🎯
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I'll repeat: Any reason to allocate 50k tokens for context autocompact in CC? why is it not a subagent running haiku and freeing the context for the main thread? any technical limitations to that?
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@trq212 I love the Claude skills but the setup process is too complex. Example every project has different skillsets some use typescript some python some Aws some gcp so creating Claude skills manually is very time consuming. Can you please make the process easy?
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yes, this is real
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When AI natives rewrite the playbook, old distribution advantages evaporate founders must get back to building or watch their foundations crumble 🏗️
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