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Gritty Versus Grifty Founders and Code as Craft

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Happy Sunday! And happy Mother’s Day in the U.S. For those of you who have given birth to babies, we hope you get flowers. To those who have given birth to startups, we hope for high equity markups. Now, on to everything we published this week, along with our take on the latest tech and business news. Was this newsletter forwarded to you? Sign up to get it in your inbox. "The Death of Code as Craft" by Jon Christensen: Coding is fun because you feel like an artist, constructing objects out of digital bits. Will AI make coders irrelevant factory-line labor? Read Jon's piece to see if coding is changing from an art form to something weirder, maybe easier, and more strategic. "The Right Kind of Asshole" by Evan Armstrong/Napkin Math: Our tech ecosystem is overrun with grifters who take capital from worthy founders. The challenge is that the signals of greatness are similar to those of being terrible. Read this for the five signs of grit and five signs of grift in founders. "Patreon Should

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