Here’s a roundup of interesting startup links I came across today:
The Last Durable Moat: Emotional Market Fit
Moats that depend on speed, optimization, pattern recognition, and scale are dying, thanks to AI, automation, and rampant access to everything all the time. Advantages based on trust, community, identity, and transformation have more staying power.
The 2028 Global Intelligence Crisis
What else were they supposed to do? Sit still and die slower? The companies most threatened by AI became AI’s most aggressive adopters.
People Loved the Dot-Com Boom. The A.I. Boom, Not So Much. – The New York Times
Tech leaders are beginning to worry about the public’s underwhelming enthusiasm for their plans to remake the world with artificial intelligence. Will that burst the bubble?
Software Survival 3.0. I spent a lot of time writing software… | by Steve Yegge | Jan, 2026 | Medium
In this post, I’m going to make a prediction about which software will survive, if you believe Karpathy, in a world where AI writes all the software and is essentially infinitely capable. I think you can make a simple survival argument that comes down to selection pressure.
Weekly Review: Agents, Autonomy, and the Humans in Between
This week’s collection spans a fascinating range: from Stripe merging 1,300 agent-written PRs weekly to a solo developer building a personal agent in 2,000 lines of Go. Meanwhile, two major model releases landed in the same week, and a strong set of editorials makes the case that human expertise is not just surviving the AI era but gaining value.
Strategic choices: When both options are good
The weaknesses of your choices are painful to accept. The advantages of the opposite choices sound wonderful. Welcome to strategy, where you make hard choices.
Founder Compensation 4.0
The tech space has evolved drastically since we first asked founders about their compensation in 2021, but over the last 12 months, that evolution has become a revolution.
Why I Turned Off ChatGPT’s Memory
Memory is frequently described as ChatGPT’s “killer feature.” Many people tell me they can’t switch to Gemini or Claude because the OpenAI tool “knows them so well.” I have memory turned off.
Much bigger data center tax breaks on deck in Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek’s bill – oregonlive.com
Oregon data center operators will save nearly a half-billion dollars in local property taxes this year through three different incentive programs. Kotek’s legislation, House Bill 4084, would expand the fastest growing of those three programs.
The Return of the Data Scientists | Goodeye Labs
The person who can run a rapid experiment, measure the result in context, and make a sound decision based on the data is more valuable than ever.
Engine Advocacy | Startup Policy Seminar: Restricting patent review and the cost to startup innovation
Join Engine on Wednesday, March 11th at 12pm ET for a virtual conversation with an expert panel explaining how restrictions on IPR threaten startup innovation and invite renewed patent troll abuse.
How to OpenClaw your Raspberry Pi – by Jon Evans
The best/cleanest/safest way to install OpenClaw is on its own computer. Most people recommend a Mac Mini, but I think a Raspberry Pi is more intriguing, partly because it’s cheaper so opens up a broader userbase, but mostly because it makes your agent portable, or even, conceivably, ambulatory.
Founders, Stop Trying to Be Perfect – by Paul O’Brien
Startups are uncertainty engines. If you don’t occasionally feel underqualified, you’re probably not attempting anything difficult.
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