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We had @garrytan and @sdianahu come to give our lecture at Stanford today. Here is what I learned: > “You can now boil the ocean” → previous expectations of what someone can do in front of a screen are outdated. A 6-person team can now hit $10M in revenue. In 2010, a 10-person startup felt impossibly lean. AI didn't just change the tools; it changed the range of outcomes completely. > Evals are taste made executable → Generic benchmarks won't tell you if customers actually want your product. Founders are the ones who have to build the evals; nobody else can do it for you. > Run your company as a closed loop → Open loop = information lives in human heads, decisions take days, errors compound silently. Closed loop = every workflow produces artifacts agents can read, every step has error-checking built in → now you get your 10x outcomes. > AI is latent, code is deterministic → Latent is where intelligence lives. Deterministic is where trust lives. Build so you're not relying on the latent stuff when it matters. > AI is changing the very structure of organizations → Middle management existed to route information between people. Closed-loop orgs don't need that anymore. Flatter teams, everyone shipping, and one person = one outcome. YC's average batch is now hitting 10% week-over-week revenue growth. Five years ago that was the top 1% only. The world is changing. The question is whether you're changing with it? And the even bigger question: will you be the one changing it?