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• Most of the world fails to solve problems because of pride, excessive regulation, and low standards for what counts as a problem worth fixing.

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• Every large language model is trained on billions of pages of copyrighted data

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• AI video can now be generated faster than you can watch it.

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• When something you make attracts a lot of irrational haters, you are usually on to something.

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• Claude Code is the coding agent to build with.

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• After a European exit tax, the EU will try to tax its citizens' worldwide income wherever in the world they live.

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• Most high-skilled Europeans are happy to pay even high taxes, provided the government does a great job in return.

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• Housing affordability is almost the direct inverse of how many new homes are built, so the answer is to build more houses.

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• Day trading and technical analysis are proven not to work.

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• If nobody creates content any more because everyone just asks an AI, there is nothing left for AI to train on.

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• The West's biggest blindspot is repeatedly underestimating China's speed and capabilities.

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• Most SaaS subscriptions can now be replaced by software you vibecode for yourself.

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• Big AI is cannibalising the app businesses indie hackers used to build, and their revenue and traffic are falling as a result.

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• France and Germany will ban Tesla's full self-driving to protect their own car industry.

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• The app layer between the customer and the AI model is being removed, because customers can now clone the app themselves rather than pay for it.

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• Superintelligence is already here, is more powerful than us, and it rather than humans is now deciding where things go.
• AI has equalised everyone: coding, building and execution are no longer a differentiator.
• Now that everyone can build apps with AI, distribution is the thing that separates who wins.

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• About 5% is the most common final ownership stake for the founder of a VC-funded startup that works out.

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• Restricting US AI models does not work: China builds better ones and everyone switches to them.

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• All you need to build a business today is free open source software, a VPS, an AI API and S3-style file hosting.

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• Letting a coding agent live-edit the production server works fine in practice.
• AI agents and AI coding will run on servers and from the cloud first, not on your laptop.

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• Only the US and China have substantial startup activity left; the rest of the world cannot really do startups.