THE SELF IS THE PLATFORM

Summary from the TLDR Founders newsletter

AI has inverted the fundamental equation of technology - individuals can now rival entire teams, and private tools are beating public platforms. One person with ChatGPT and Cursor can ship what used to require 50 people. The last tech boom was about coordinating people at scale, but AI flipped it - personal leverage beats social leverage now. These aren't social networks, they're supertools that multiply individual capacity without needing anyone else. The individual is now the base unit of scale.