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Blacksmith (YC W24) builds a faster cloud for continuous integration, betting that testing and validation become the bottleneck as AI coding tools generate more code.
Cheaper intelligence raises the bar for what an AI application can charge
Evals without traces, million-cell tabular reviews, and cracks in the billable hour as a business model
Record venture funding in 2026 has been increasingly concentrated in massive AI rounds, while seed- and early-stage deal counts are on the decline. Using Crunchbase data we provide a look at how third-quarter funding continued the year's dollars-up-but-deals-down trend.
Listen now | 🎙️ Figma growth PM Ezra Mechaber demos PM OS, a 31-skill repo used by 60+ PMs, and AutoXP, an agent that runs growth experiments with one human checkpoint
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