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How I’d answer some of the trickiest questions SF investors ask

I’ve had a tonne of messages from readers of my last post all wanting to know the same thing – so how do you answer those questions?! What are VCs looking for?

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Why I don’t think AGI is imminent

This piece is a sketch of my own thinking about the boundary of transformer-based large language models and human-level cognition. I have an MS degree in Machine Learning from over a decade ago, and I don’t work in the field of AI currently, but I am well-read on the underlying research.

When it rains, it pours. Earlier today we had no local AI hackathons planned. Now we have two. And they’re both happening on February 28, 2026. The first one is OpenClaw. The next one is an Anthropic Claude Code Hackathon.

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Bias Toward Action

Here’s what it actually means: take the smallest step that produces real feedback, but know exactly how you’ll recover when it breaks.

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The “Are You Sure?” Problem: Why Your AI Keeps Changing Its Mind | Dr. Randal S. Olson

Even when these systems have access to correct information from company knowledge bases or web search results, they’ll still defer to user pressure over their own evidence. The problem isn’t a knowledge gap. It’s a behavior gap.

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What’s Wrong With This Idea? | Jake Worth

One of my favorite questions is: “What’s wrong with this idea?” It drives the conversation away from why the idea is great, and toward finding its flaws. That is invaluable in technology.