This resonates a lot. As founders we make way more emotional decisions than we admit, and half the battle is just getting out of our own way. The “AI CEO” framing is clever because it basically forces you into a discipline loop,focus on essentials, talk to users, cut the noise, execute consistently. It’s not that the AI is brilliant, it’s that it doesn’t get tired, anxious, or distracted like we do.
Sometimes that neutrality is exactly what a struggling startup needs.
sklinkert•2mo ago
100%. The 'sunk cost fallacy' was my biggest blocker. When the agent flagged 1,500 articles for deletion, my immediate human reaction was, 'But I paid freelancers $X,XXX for those!'
The AI just looked at the data: Traffic = 0. Authority = Diluted. Action = Delete.
It decoupled the execution from the sentiment. I think that's the killer feature of agentic workflows because it forces you to argue with logic rather than anxiety.
Barathkanna•2mo ago
Sometimes that neutrality is exactly what a struggling startup needs.
sklinkert•2mo ago
The AI just looked at the data: Traffic = 0. Authority = Diluted. Action = Delete.
It decoupled the execution from the sentiment. I think that's the killer feature of agentic workflows because it forces you to argue with logic rather than anxiety.