Founders often wonder whether they should raise money from investors. The answer to that one is surprisingly simple. You should raise money if and on… - Paul Graham

I expected technology to make programming less laborious, as it does to most things. But I have to admit I expected it to happen by programmers switching to more powerful languages, rather than continuing to write programs full of boilerplate, but having AIs generate most of it.

you need to start doing something people want. You don’t need to join a company to do that. All a company is is a group of people working together to do something people want. It’s doing something people want that matters, not joining the group.6

It's a good sign when you cautiously suggest some ridiculously ambitious future plan to a startup, and discover they've already thought a lot about it.