Speed x AI

• AI 10x’d speed requirements; most founders’ speed bars are too low.
  • Traditional school/corp environments train toward slowness and overanalysis.
• Speed compounds: faster quality gains, momentum, better valuations, lower burn.
  • Momentum attracts customers, employees, press, and investors.
• Run 20–100+ experiments per week; treat the company as a lab.
• Launch imperfect products — the product is not an extension of your ego.
• Borrow shamelessly: copy what works, then iterate.
• “Fuck it” mentality: remove self-imposed blockers fast.
• Mindset > Hours — psychological framework determines throughput, not time worked.

X discourse

• @vitrupo: “Jeff Dean says we’re going to have to re-engineer our tools because they were designed for human speed. An AI agent can” (1334 likes)
• @a16z: “Marc Andreessen on the imperative of speed in AI adoption: ‘We’re going to be lucky as a society if AI adoption happens” (395 likes)
• @shiri_shh: “OpenClaw founder runs 4–10 AI coding agents in parallel to generate, review, and commit code at superhuman speed.” (4874 likes)
• @davidsenra: “AI is turning designs into code at unprecedented speed. Evan Spiegel: The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of” (161 likes)
• @scottastevenson: “Slack is seriously not working as a communication channel for companies working at AI speed.” (154 likes)
• @a16zcrypto: “E/ACC vs. D/ACC: @VitalikButerin thinks slowing down AGI by four years is worth it. @beffjezos thinks that’s wrong.” (497 likes)

James Currier, General Partner at NFX (@jamescurrier) · 2025-06-05 · Read on nfx.com