Background Noise
Michael MignanoA place for me to write short posts and long-ish essays about startups, technology, strategy, product, media, and culture.
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Who picks the model?
The first thing a developer building an AI app does is pick a model. A few weeks after launch, they pick a router.
But it wasn’t always like this. A year ago, most startups picked one model and built everything around it. Today they’re usi...
Who are your agents working for?
Like most of us, I’ve traded my privacy for convenience many times over the past few decades. But I’m starting to wonder if handing my life over to agents will finally force me to reconsider.
A lot of us are setting up our own OpenClaw, H...
It always comes back to network effects
Systems of record are no longer defensible. For decades, the information inside data-heavy apps was trapped, because moving it cost more than just living with the system you had.
But now, sufficiently capable agents can just raid the syste...
Information Automation
Spotify recently launched a very interesting CLI tool that makes it possible for agents to push custom audio into a user’s Spotify library. I find this new feature very interesting.
Spotify learned a long time ago that people love having a...
Moats: Memory vs. Customization
Like many others, we’re spending a lot of time at USV talking about where moats will accumulate for AI companies. And while we don’t all agree yet, it’s been a helpful exercise, as well as a fun one (because as a byproduct, we all experimen...
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