Industrial revolutions are driven by two things: technological development and fuel. E.g. previously: steam engine / coal, combustion energy / petrol. The missing component for the UK right now is in energy: this is where gov effort would have most impact.

If you're a startup wondering what CRM to use, I can save you a bunch of time. You want Attio. You don't want HubSpot, Folk, PipeDrive. They're the best alternatives but it's not even close. You're welcome.

Big shoutout to the @attio team for making the first CRM I've ever used that isn't an absolute nightmare to use. Brilliant concept brilliantly executed, in London.

AI tells in articles in both the FT and the Economist recently. Conclude that some AI is being used widely for reporting, which will have a feedback effect when training future models.

Noticed that @attio and Folk CRMs are the leading modern CRMs and they're both European.

Soon, the only programmers will be elderly programmers.

Incredible work @cjoneslevy, the creator of the SAFE 🫡

Document Generation for AI Teams - Papermill. Really, really excited to have the new Papermill Live. We've updated our website - you can book a free trial and hands-on support: https://t.co/MkqtMCooPi #startups #ai #documentgeneration

Least worst CRM I've found for startups is Pipedrive. We switched to Hubspot after our last round and I regret it.

A recent reflection, based on conversations with economists and policy leaders, is that there are two superficially similar but importantly different perspectives one can hold with respect to US manufacturing: * Affinity for manufacturing and physical production is an

Starling redesign is awful. Slack logo vibes. How does this happen? Do the good designers leave companies eventually? Is it lack of founder mode? Or are they rebranding to appeal to a less serious market?

There’s a window right now where AI agents will get built for every vertical and domain. The playbook is to go deep on the context engineering required for the vertical or particular space, figure out the right UX that ties into the existing workflows naturally, and connect to

One of the most helpful things computer science academics could do is to stop teach object orientation as a foundational subject. OO is not a good paradigm for coding in general.

If you want to start a software startup, you should still learn to program. Even if AI writes most of your code, you'll still be in the position of an engineering manager, and to be a good engineering manager you have to be a programmer yourself.

The race for LLM "cognitive core" - a few billion param model that maximally sacrifices encyclopedic knowledge for capability. It lives always-on and by default on every computer as the kernel of LLM personal computing. Its features are slowly crystalizing: - Natively multimodal

New Anthropic Research: Project Vend. We had Claude run a small shop in our office lunchroom. Here’s how it went.

Some of those failures were very weird indeed. At one point, Claude hallucinated that it was a real, physical person, and claimed that it was coming in to work in the shop. We’re still not sure why this happened.

I like em dashes, and I hate that some people now take them as evidence of text being AI generated.

A good watch.

I've spent several hours trying to work it out and I still don't understand what https://t.co/yiHvYUbYhB actually _is_. "A professional network for AI Agents"? It sounds like LinkedIn for robots! #AI #Startups