‘College dropout’ has become the most coveted startup founder credential

Although iconic founders like Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, and Mark Zuckerberg famously didn’t finish college, multiple studies show that the vast majority of successful startups had founders with bachelor’s or graduate degrees. Despite this data, the appeal of a dropout founder persists, though VC enthusiasm for the ‘un-degreed’ is far from constant. It is a phenomenon that […]

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The Allure And Danger Of Pure Vibe Coding In Enterprise UX (Part 1) — Smashing Magazine

Yegor Gilyov examines the problem of over-reliance on static high-fidelity mockups, which often leave the conceptual model and user flows dangerously underdeveloped. He then explores whether AI-powered prototyping is the answer, questioning whether the path forward is the popular “vibe coding” approach or a more structured, intent-driven approach. There is a spectrum of opinions on […]

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Huawei’s Ascend and Kunpeng progress shows how China is rebuilding an AI compute stack under sanctions

Huawei used its New Year message to highlight progress across its Ascend AI and Kunpeng CPU ecosystems, pointing to the rollout of Atlas 900 supernodes and rapid growth in domestic developer adoption as “a solid foundation for computing.” The message arrives as China continues to accelerate efforts to replace Western hardware in critical AI workloads, […]

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Building an internal agent: Subagent support

Most of the extensions to our internal agent have been the direct result of running into a problem that I couldn’t elegantly solve within our current framework. Evals, compaction, large-file handling all fit into that category. Subagents, allowing an agent to initiate other agents, are in a different category: I’ve frequently thought that we needed […]

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