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The End of YC


When engineers lose their edge.

The comfortable physics that I thought governed Silicon Valley—that stuff takes time to build; that products need to be designed before they can be created; that computers cannot assume intent or interpolate their way through incomplete ideas—broke, utterly. Granted, I didn’t build any of the scaffolding that a real company would—proper signup pages, hardened security policies, administrative features, “tests”—but the product expresses its core functionality as completely as any prototype that we showed Mode’s early investors and first customers. But if you look like a good technologist, the machinery of Silicon Valley—from venture capitalists to incubators to Stripe Atlas, which promises to help people start a company in a few clicks—will power you through each one.

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