We announced that Terry Myerson will keynote @seattleflow.org Startup Day. Thanks T.A. McCann for making the intro, and Sarah Climaco and @caligirlinpnw.bsky.social for the coordination. It takes a village to bring this to life. I'm glad to have @shaunacausey.bsky.social and Kailin Spencer with me!

I take 0.5 seconds after a homepage of a SaaS startup loads for me to know it was designed by AI.

Terry Myerson left Microsoft after 21 years to build Truveta, now a $515M+ company saving lives with data. He's keynoting Startup Day 2026. Early bird ticket sales end this Friday. seattleflow.org/startupday

It's $100 that you can use towards your Claude Code subscription! That's a lot of tokens! 💰 💰 💰

I'm looking forward to ChatGPT version 7.3 with Ultra-Extreme-Insane-Beyond Thinking mode.

Applications open for the Startup Day 2026 Startup Fair. 10-15 startups, demo tables, 400+ founders and investors in the room. Apply by April 10. startupday.seattleflow.org/startup-fair

There is a time that parents must talk with their teenagers about the dangers of clawdbot.

18 advisors just announced for @seattleflow.org Startup Day 2026's Advisory Room. Investors from Madrona, M12, Graham & Walker, and more. Book 1:1 sessions with the advisor of your choice. seattleflow.org/startupday

Built the Startup Day 2026 Conference website and back-office with Claude Code. Zero hand-written code. 3 weeks. 130 tickets. I wrote an article covering the design, strategy, workflow, deployment, testing, etc. startupday.seattleflow.org/how-we-built...

We are going to see the first tech public company generating $10M in profit per employee before we see the first one-person billion-dollar company.

May 15th. 400 founders. The conference Seattle's been missing. startupday.seattleflow.org @seattleflow.org

Something is happening in Seattle right now. Layoffs + AI + Tech + ☔️ = countless side-projects, ready for the next step -> Founders galore. What's missing is a place where it all connects. We built it. 🧵

The people rejecting AI in their personal and professional lives today have the same attitude as the people rejecting calculators in the 1970s.

Non-coders vibe-code a task/to-do/project mgmt app and extrapolate that all software will be built this way. In the 2010s, these were entry-level coding exercises when people were learning React, Angular, Kotlin, etc. LLMs have been trained on thousands of them. it won't scale to other categories.

SaaS: "The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated!" www.calbucci.com/2026-agentic...

Imagine a world where Google Search doesn't display your product or service. Does your company even exist? How do you find customers in that case?

This article by Stratechery is a must-read to examine the future of tech, software, and AI. The adage from Bill Gates that we overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the next 10 is out the window. We don't know what’s going to happen in two or twenty years.

Anguilla is cashing in while it can.

Job in a tech company: Software Engineer Sr. Software Engineer Staff Software Engineer Principal Engineer Distinguished Engineer Job in a bank: Associate Software Engineer Associate Dir. Software Engineer Sr. Associate VP of Software Engineering Executive Sr. SVP of Software Engineering

Looks like OpenAI is losing its magic. It went from having the Midas touch to being a curse for its key partners in less than six months.

I can't remember who said that working with AI today is like learning incantations. It's such a spot-on observation. Knowing the right combo of words gets you amazing results. Asking too little, you get no value. Asking too much muddles things. We need to attend AI Hogwarts.

I miss when social media created community around events. Both attendees and others would follow a hashtag, get to participate and "feel" the conference.

Social media algorithms have transformed to the point where there's near-zero value in following accounts, being followed, or reposting to your followers. It decides what you see. It decides what your followers see. Everything is a tiny signal in the engagement machine.

I don't remember when it happened, but ChatGPT gave up writing sentences and paragraphs. Now it's bullet points, numbered lists, and fragments.

PowerPoint won't tell you your pitch deck doesn't make strategic sense. QuickBooks won't tell you your marketing strategy causes a cash-flow crunch. These are syntactical products based on structure and artifacts. AI is finally opening the age of Semantic Products. www.calbucci.com/2026-semanti...

People in Seattle are nice but not kind. Being kind requires a level of candor that the people here avoid in favor of social cohesion. Folks don't share if they are sad or mad, so as not to upset others. Bottling up feelings and thoughts is not good for mental health, and it doesn't help us grow.

Adobe's stock has slumped more than 45% since the end of 2023, reflecting analyst concerns over the threat of AI-driven disruption to SaaS companies (Ryan Vlastelica/Bloomberg) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

Claude is the best editor/critic of blog posts, emails, or essays. It’s brutally honest. I prefer to do my own writing, but I constantly ask Claude to review the text over and over, often 5-7 times. The feedback I get is phenomenal, and the prompts couldn't be any simpler.

I started an email reply with “You’re absolutely right,” and the person was sure it was an AI responding. Speaking like AI is the new “life imitating art.” Maybe I should put Claude Code down for a while. 🙃

AI won't take our humanity because our humanity is about other humans. 2026 is the year we rebuild what we lost. www.calbucci.com/2026-ai-comm...

We are about to witness unprecedented levels of psyops, disinfo campaigns, and astroturfing. Society is not prepared for this, and social media companies benefit from the engagement, so they won't do much to stop it.

If true, this will be the inflection point for EV cars. A battery that delivers 30-60% more autonomy, charges in 5 minutes, lasts longer than the car, and it works under cold/hot temperatures. insideevs.com/news/783380/...

2026 promises to be an exceptional year for movies: Project Hail Mary Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu Disclosure Day The Odyssey Dune: Messiah

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Seattle set the fog level to 11 to celebrate the new year.

I'm looking for a designer (a person, not an agency) to help with a basic branding and website design for a project, probably 20-30h of work. When I lived in London I was impressed by the quality of the UX/Brand designers there. Is there a site that can help me find a person for this job?

Mega VC rounds are skewing the data about the realities of startup investing today. 2026 will be a hell of a year for early-stage startups to raise money.

Tentar renovar passaporte brasileiro morando no exterior é uma aventura! Estilo Da Vinci Code.

The person who came up with the word puppeteer is an evil genius.

Social media needs a no-spoilers feature. Let me select the shows and sports events I watch and then warn me or hide it for 24h before showing posts about it.

The dictionary definition of inhumane.

The React/NextJS vulnerabilities recently discovered are a great example of how we still depend on software engineers. What happens to the vibe-coded apps deployed by non-engineers? Tech is too fragmented and too diverse for us to develop a unified AI agent to handle this.

Someone forgot to turn the lights on in Seattle this morning.

This is closer to the true cost of AI models, in which case the tradeoff between AI and human labor blurs. For comparison, $168/day is more than the minimum wage is most places.

I'm sorry, what?!

To add insult to injury, now LinkedIn is hiding comments with links from the post author! LinkedIn/Twitter/Threads shows posts with links to fewer people. The “standard” became to share the link in the comments so you reach *your* audience and people click the link in the comment.

Stop saying “knowledge worker” to refer to professionals who work from an office. Instead, say “information worker.” Dentists, plumbers, and teachers require substantial knowledge to perform their work.

Still on the theme of “AI will replace SaaS,” I wrote this post 8 years ago, and it's more relevant now than ever. www.calbucci.com/why-code-rot...

Remember when everyone learned how to bake bread during COVID? “AI will replace SaaS” is the new just-because-you-can-doesn't-mean-you-should.