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Drawn from what Pieter Levels said
AI and jobs Whether AI displaces human work, which jobs go first, and what replaces them.
ideas vs execution Whether the idea or the execution behind it is what actually decides an outcome, and who deserves the credit.
So AI has made everybody just as capable as everyone else, it equalized everyone in the world, as in everyone can make everything (software, music, images, art etc) now and everyone is equal, at least in the digital realm now
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Almost all standard startup advice is still true in the AI era.
Levels says AI has equalised everyone and that coding, building and execution are no longer a differentiator. Graham says almost all standard startup advice is still true in the AI era — advice built on the assumption that execution is where founders separate themselves. One of them thinks the ground moved.
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