True North: The "Candle Mold" Thesis
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The mold is the asset, not the candle. Anyone can pour wax (write code). The mold — critic agents in separate repos, video proof of every bug fix, 1,000 screenshots scrolled in bulk at dawn — is what compounds. The founders shipping fastest have shifted creative energy upstream from code generation to validation infrastructure. Code isn't the asset. The system that validates the code is.
Build for model change. With every new release, builders strip back and rebuild what breaks. The scaffolding you built six months ago is almost definitely wrong today. Build rails — observability, evals, structured logging — and expect constant change. Teams locked in on one model provider have platform risk.
Your corpus is the moat. Tokens are the final digital good — and the cheapest input in your stack is also the most undervalued. Pay the paywalls. License the data. Build a local inspiration directory of every research artifact your agents have ever touched, semantic-indexed, never checked into git. Your agents don't get smarter because the models do — they get smarter because your corpus does.
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Quantum is early. It's also closer than most people think.
Soul Dayan on where True is spending time across the quantum stack — application layer, software stack, quantum-AI intersection — and why the “quantum moment” being years away is exactly why now is the time to build.