Sarah Guo
American venture investor, founder of the AI-focused firm Conviction and co-host of the No Priors podcast with Elad Gil; earlier a general partner at Greylock.
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Their wordsAgentic software is likely to increase what is the government is expected to pay out.
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Their wordsAvoidance is fear. Sometimes I can feel myself procrastinating a painful phone call, and then I can force myself to make it.
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The investor despair that nothing in AI is investable except the labs and Nvidia is wrong.
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Their wordsThe mid-2026 investor's version of AI psychosis is a despair that nothing is investable, that we should put all our money into Anthropic and Nvidia and go home. I have never felt it.
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Their wordsWhat's legible is what's leaving. The valuable work is illegible by construction: anything you can put on a leaderboard, you can train against, so anything measurable is already on its way to commodity.
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For AI in regulated work, intelligence is not the bottleneck; permission and accountability are.
Their wordsIntelligence is not the bottleneck here. Permission is, and so is accountability.
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The model layer is not a single-player game, so labs cannot simply bleed out the apps built on them.
Their wordsit only works if the model layer is a single-player game. It clearly isn't
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Their wordsThe despair is half right. The thin wrapper layer really is being absorbed, and a lot of what looks like a company today is a thin wrapper.
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Their wordscode is being produced faster than understanding can catch up
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Their wordsThe SOC 2 report looks the same whether your system has three agent-driven workflows or three hundred, and that’s not good enough.
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Their wordsShipping before you fully understand what you’ve built isn’t a character flaw. Today, it’s how you compete.
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Their wordsAs software becomes abundant, the ability to make intent clear becomes scarce.
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Their wordsAs agents improve, the dominant failure mode changes. The problem is rarely broken code.
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Their wordsAutomation scales whatever structure already exists. When that structure is implicit, the scaling makes it legible.
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Their wordsThis is also why less experienced investors can still be exceptional, and founders should work with them!
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Their wordsFounders and LPs should be careful about selecting investors based solely on prior wins rather than current immersion.
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Their wordsThat result is often cited as evidence of AI’s limits. It’s better read as evidence of how slow organizations are to change.
↗AI Adoption Is a Coordination Problemx.com 1st of 2 in this piece
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Over the long run, automation increases workers’ leverage more than preserving work as it is.
Their wordsOver the long run, automation increases their leverage more reliably than attempts to preserve work exactly as it is.
↗AI Adoption Is a Coordination Problemx.com 2nd of 2 in this piece