@benhylak @raindrop_ai @CRV @lightspeedvp Congrats Ben! Raindrop is the only AI observability tool I regularly recommend.
The Matrix feels much more culturally relevant and cool when you realize that the human brains were supposed to be used by the AI as energy-efficient compute in data centres.
This got edited because Warner Bros didn’t think people would understand.
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Amazon is dead to me for everything except the basics. Every search returns a flood of unknown brands and knockoffs. Feels like sifting through slop.
Finally got mine @steveruizok! Made a little physics simulation with the Spellbook gem 💎
Very true and every creative gets this. Non-creatives are under the illusion that great work can happen through a chat message. But “hands on the clay” is what every creative needs.
We need much better interfaces for this—they will go way beyond chat.
@SpellbookLegal is “hands on the clay” for contracts.
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I don't like that new tools are elevating a disengaged way of creating, like a boss who's too busy to care ("Just text your bot while out for a jog").
That we can do this now is amazing! But great work happens with our hands in the clay. The same tools can let us get deeper in.
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Those calling this survivorship bias do not understand survivorship bias.
Survivorship bias works in favour of my argument: this is proof that companies can survive having the wrong idea, and your plane shouldn’t go down due to having the wrong idea.
Yes there are also companies that pivot to death. But I’m saying having a “force it to work” attitude is a necessary condition, not a sufficient one.
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Cursor was an email app.
Slack was a game company.
Great founders refuse to quit. Mediocre founders say: “We executed well, but our idea was flawed, good job everyone but we are shutting down.”
Almost no one gets the first idea right.
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True
Working at a high-growth AI startup in 2026 is like being in a hyperbolic time chamber
Being comfortable with a constant number of problems, that never truly burns down, is one of the absolute keys to being a great operator/executive
You need to learn to feel progress and reward even when this is the case:
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Still sharing this with friends and colleagues….The lens by which you see problems is the most direct contributor to your happiness in life:
1) either you expect problems to go away, 2) or you expect problems to upgrade
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Cursor was an email app.
Slack was a game company.
Great founders refuse to quit. Mediocre founders say: “We executed well, but our idea was flawed, good job everyone but we are shutting down.”
Almost no one gets the first idea right.
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Spellbook was launched 3 months before ChatGPT. We even had a chat UI and thought it was kind of curious but weren’t sure if people would like it.
GitHub Copilot’s tab completion functionality was our inspo
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Cursor was released almost a year before ChatGPT
Finally, Cursor for Legal
Correction: SpaceX for contracts is here.
Cursor for contracts is here. Announcing Spellbook's new AI document editor.
Doc editing for lawyers is disjointed: you can edit with AI in chat, but then need to "Open in Word" to make manual tweaks without breaking formatting.
Alternatively you can use a Word add-in like Spellbook's, but this only allows you to work on one document at a time.
For a long time, @mitchellhynes and I talked about getting to a real "Cursor for Contracts" experience.
With a lot of blood and sweat, we're finally there.
Spellbook's new editor combines the best of AI editing and manual editing in one place—while fully supporting rich Word formatting that lawyers rely on.
Ask AI to make edits across an entire document set, then review, accept and tweak all in one window.
This sounds like a small thing, but the reduction in friction has totally changed my document editing workflow.
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Word was built for one human editing one document at a time. @SpellbookLegal is built for lawyers and AI working across entire transactions. This is where the product stops looking like a Word add-in and starts looking like the infrastructure for agreements.
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“Put your laptop away during landing/takeoff” has cost me so much flow state. I would gladly wear a helmet to avoid this.
Been a lot of fun working on this! Super excited for folks to try it out
Contracts are the OS of the economy
If you make contracts easier, you speed up the world.
Yes, we had almost 80 nos in our seed round, largely because almost every investor thought legaltech was a bad market, and that lawyers wouldn't buy software.
You got rejected 80 times in seed? @scottastevenson
Building the global infrastructure for agreements, one step at a time:
Cursor for contracts is here. Announcing Spellbook's new AI document editor.
Doc editing for lawyers is disjointed: you can edit with AI in chat, but then need to "Open in Word" to make manual tweaks without breaking formatting.
Alternatively you can use a Word add-in like Spellbook's, but this only allows you to work on one document at a time.
For a long time, @mitchellhynes and I talked about getting to a real "Cursor for Contracts" experience.
With a lot of blood and sweat, we're finally there.
Spellbook's new editor combines the best of AI editing and manual editing in one place—while fully supporting rich Word formatting that lawyers rely on.
Ask AI to make edits across an entire document set, then review, accept and tweak all in one window.
This sounds like a small thing, but the reduction in friction has totally changed my document editing workflow.
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The best part about working in marketing is to build a spotlight opportunity that puts eyes on the world class product that the devs work so hard on behind the scenes building 👏
