Ooooo so many hot takes. Kinda intrigued by this one: "🧑🏻💻 Platforms stop rewarding originality." Google's gone this way and seems like other platforms are following!
You asked what we’re going to do about it? My answer: build slower, think better, and strip the noise right out of the workflow. The stat that stood out most for me: 20% of solopreneurs are already earning £78K–£235K a year without employees. That’s not a trend. That’s a seismic shift in leverage.
Awesome curation Sharyph. Thank you for putting this together.
Ooooo so many hot takes. Kinda intrigued by this one: "🧑🏻💻 Platforms stop rewarding originality." Google's gone this way and seems like other platforms are following!
Really great insight
You asked what we’re going to do about it? My answer: build slower, think better, and strip the noise right out of the workflow. The stat that stood out most for me: 20% of solopreneurs are already earning £78K–£235K a year without employees. That’s not a trend. That’s a seismic shift in leverage.
You're either building something genuinely distinctive or you're getting drowned out by AI-generated noise. There's no comfortable middle anymore.
Good article!
that's right...learn and evolve.
My personal favorite: The gap between builders and talkers widens fast. You are so right. It's ship or go home in 2026.
If you go deep into this, you will understand why products win and why they fail.
Winners are shipping fast, they have a well-constructed feedback loop, they ship regularly… check Cursor’s growth as an example…
Big yes to “AI is baseline” + “systems beat tactics”
Amazing list! I agree that ‘made by humans’ will be more ‘valuable’.
Some amazing predictions here Sharyph. I agree that agents might end up being paid more than humans, but maybe not just with monetary value...