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THE AI-PILLED COMPOUNDING STARTUP

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Summary from the TLDR Founders newsletter

Flatiron spent a month visiting AI-native startups in SF, and the org charts look nothing like a normal company. One PM covers five companies. Engineers talk to customers and own product decisions. Claude Code has replaced Cursor in most shops. Non-engineers shipped production tools, an account manager built a Slack agent to automate uploads, and accounting teams wrote database queries through MCP. Everyone's iterating 3-5x faster, which sounds great until you realize the real danger is saying yes to every feature request just because you finally can.