... their GTM motion, and how they approach AI. Many things have changed between 2025 and 2026. See full report here My key takeaways: 78% of founders are technical. @Claude Code became the most-named must-have dev tool (31%). @VS Code held flat (22%). @Cursor dropped to 15%. @v0 by Vercel , @bolt.new , and @Windsurf each lost 6-9%. @Claude by Anthropic models are the most used. AI-generated code is the median experience. 62% of startups have more than half ... ... media lost users across every major platform. Conferences emptied out. Technical complexity is no longer the main challenge. AI ate the hard parts of shipping. What replaced it: burn out, AI-competition fear, runway anxiety. 56% of founders remain optimistic

... usually report what's working. Worth occasionally reading the version that reports what isn't. Some surprises from the last six months of building B2B AI tooling for enterprise buyers: Sales cycles are 2-3x longer than the optimistic forecast even when the buyer is motivated. 'No-code' is a selling point for marketing and a friction point in deployment when engineering teams need to extend the configuration. 'Model-agnostic' is genuinely hard to explain to non-technical buyers ... ... under the hood. Community-building as a marketing channel is the highest-ROI investment that still feels the slowest to compound. The most useful customer conversations happen 90 days after deployment, not before. What's the honest, non-optimistic

... useful side project or whether there's a real business opportunity around city intelligence, relocation data, and location decision-making. For founders in Europe: Would you see a path to monetization here? I'd be interested in hearing both optimistic and skeptical perspectives ...

... sparked an interesting thought experiment: how likely is it that we ll see AGI (AI that thinks and learns like a human) within the next five years? The report highlights a fascinating divergence: the view from money vs. the view from science. Money : the probability inferred from trillions poured into data centers, Nvidia chips, and servers. Investors seem to be betting that AGI is inevitable. Science : the probability inferred from research papers and AI development models. Experts are far more ... ... might be ahead of reality. Expect volatility, overpromised outcomes, and valuable lessons along the way. Meanwhile, AI continues reshaping work, attention, and human behavior. I d love to hear the community s perspective: Are you seeing this money vs

... everyone, I m Ebony. I ve spent the last decade working alongside founders and CEOs in Silicon Valley, and now I m building in the consumer AI space myself. I m a tech optimist at heart I believe the future of technology shouldn t just be more advanced, it should be more human. I m especially interested in making AI usable and empowering for everyday people, not just experts. A little about me: I m a mom of four ...