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February 2025

Are we just throwing spaghetti against the wall?
We're in the AI era of ship until they succumb.
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Tara Tan
Return on hype
We live in a world where a lean 10-person team can hit $100M ARR in 12 months, and 2 year old companies with minimal revenue grab billion-dollar…
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Tara Tan
The Interface-Infrastructure Flywheel
Better experiences demand better infrastructure. This week: AI companies start moving into hardware.
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Tara Tan
OpenAI releases Deep Research, Apple wants to make expressive robots
Plus, old low-res videos will now never be a thing, thanks to Topaz Labs
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Tara Tan

January 2025

The Future of Software Is AI That Writes Itself
Could AI-powered coding tools evolve into agents that build, debug, and optimize software systems in the background in real time?
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Tara Tan
What drives DeepSeek?
A dive into its low-profile founder, Liang Wenfeng.
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Tara Tan
Agents are here. Open Source model R1 outperforms.
The product team's dilemma: the pressure to keep pace with user expectations and new capabilities.
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Tara Tan
Static Software Will Die Out Faster Than You Think
The next breakout companies will build dynamic software. Products that shape itself to you over time.
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Tara Tan
And we’re back. To the future?
The year of physical AI. Waymo hit 22% market share in SF in 6 months.
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Tara Tan

December 2024

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