Soren Larson
@hypersoren
making everything more you @getcrosshatch // maths music theory econ @harvard @swarthmore
i started a new blog / first post: dumb money in the last era of software apps competed to be the most intelligent. but post windsurf and success of claude code, it seems like the best application layer businesses will actually be dumb
MCP aspirations for decentralized integrations seem to be faltering. These servers are trivial to spin up yet literally no one in travel, maps, retail, etc have shipped one (or allowed 3rd parties via affiliate endpoints) It’s obviously not tech challenges - it’s incentives
Sigh I keep telling ya folks mcp is just reinventing rest with tool calls. It's not better in any way. It's far better to give access to a full website or have the model "see" the program they are working with
Marx would have loved this moment: venture capital racing to fund the worst off techno proletariat: the software app layer -abundant -cheap to replace -delivering more value than it captures -has to pay to work a factory manager who owns neither the machines nor the labor 🥲
fake news all the desirable parts of miami are up while UES, soho and west village are down
Really wild how there are two housing markets now. If you live in the northeast or Midwest, prices are rising, everywhere around you. If you live in the south or west, prices are falling, everywhere around you. And if you live in Florida, the bottom’s falling out.
“companies enslaved by their own business models find creative ways to give you less under an illusion of unlimited access. what’s the alternative? look for companies that don't make money off inference” The best businesses are dumb
it's curious how cursor and claude code are following the exact same trajectory. they start with genuine intentions to serve users, then gradually introduce "unlimited" subscription tiers and start to tilt things in their favor through rate limiting and service degradation.…
Harvey is a Dumb Money startup. It's not selling metered intelligence, it's selling Trusted Legal Advice. There's a difference! Right?
“Harvey isn’t some breakthrough in legal AI—it’s ChatGPT with a law costume. Lovable isn’t revolutionizing code—it’s Claude with pretty buttons.” - @rodriscoll on @twentyminutevc Not enough people talking about this.
The candidacy of AI insurance to make AI deployments - safer: specialized underwriting - cheaper: less fragmentation of responsibility - faster: off the shelf policies is uncanny. AI insurance should accelerate AI deployment while commodifying rent-seeking fragmented trust.
Insurance is an underrated way to unlock secure AI progress. Insurers are incentivized to truthfully quantify and track risks: if they overstate risks, they get outcompeted; if they understate risks, their payouts bankrupt them. 1/9
>im traveling to Europe $400k in debt girl seems kinda reasonable when you have a young guy on the other side working as a cop basically saying he doesn’t want to date etc because he can’t afford it
This is the economic nihilism I'm talking about. And there is a certain point of no return. For her, honestly, I'd let it rip until I can't tap more credit and declare bankruptcy. Not like she will pay it off. This attitude is pervasive x.com/BoringBiz_/sta…
location informs culture and how people build sf, miami, and nyc have fundamentally different views of privacy, a culturally derived object if you’re without privacy it’s - sf: grotesque - miami: on purpose - nyc: in back rooms sharing is how we become
Memory needs a rebel alliance Last week we wrote about the risks of centralizing our digital memory. Today's follow-up blog explores the ecosystem of startups building a different future where you control your own data and memory @usv @buildexante @zweinberg + matt hawes