Lisa Akselrod
@cryptobuilder_

Building Agent Experience (AX) in SF | Tech Bro at @thetechbros_io | @jointhebridge @join_ef | ex math at @LondonU and @aztecnetwork

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Joined May 2022
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AI can build the product. It cannot make anyone care. @a16z with its 'New Media' understood what comes next faster than others. Media becomes startup infrastructure as important as data centers. My new newsletter issue is about why.
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Why a16z got it right with New Media

Previously, in my newsletter, I was mostly writing about the technical side of technology. But today, I am sharing some thoughts about media, which is slowly becoming king instead of math and code.

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In Issue 06 of my newsletter, Tightly Coupled, I explore how Palantir created the FDE model, why everyone in AI is adopting it, and what happens to implementation, pricing, product discovery, and software economics when products begin deploying themselves.
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AI FDEs: Another Hype Cycle or a New Software Model?

AI has brought back one of the least scalable jobs in software. OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Scale AI, Salesforce, and dozens of startups are hiring Forward Deployed Engineers: technical people who work

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If software, science, and robotics become nearly free to produce, what happens to labor, power, geopolitics, and to us? •_•
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How far vibecoding can go and what is the aftermath

In this essay, I think about radical vibecoding and its impact on the world. As well as share my thoughts on what makes sense to build today. A month ago, when I started The Bridge and we discussed

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Another Issue of my newsletter: Cursor made “use the model’s code in one click” feel natural. The next step is software that understands what should change and builds it.
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The Inevitability of Self-Building Software

Remember the legendary Steve Jobs moment? He promised an iPod, a phone, and an internet communicator, and then said they weren’t three products, but one: the iPhone. It felt like magic back then, but
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Everyone is suddenly building an “AI OS.” But are ChatGPT and Claude really becoming operating systems? In this issue, I explore what would actually need to change for AI to become the layer everything else runs on.
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Everyone Calls It an “AI OS.” But Is It Anything More Than SaaS?

We are living through a year when everything is being renamed as an OS: an AI-native OS for retail, for agriculture, for running small coffee shops, you name it. Someone asked me last week: do you

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The second issue of my newsletter is out. Goes perfectly with your Sunday espresso ☕ The invisible market, the budget moving toward products agents prefer, and unknown unknowns.
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Agents Only Beyond This Point. Humans Can Wait Outside.

I started talking to CISOs about how they use agents back in January. For these days, seven months feels like a decade ago. Things change as fast as never before, best practices become outdated over

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RIP Cybersecurity 1988 - 2027

TL;DR: Agents are not the next evolution of the internet; they are the new internet. As software begins to build, maintain, attack and repair itself at machine speed, security will move from
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What Collapses When Agents Don’t Have Careers?

My dad didn’t believe in the internet. He thought it was some Ponzi scheme: hype for a bit, then collapse, something like MMM, the financial pyramid many people remember from the post-Soviet 90s. “How
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