Business Insider is reporting 1) AI is already replacing investors at venture capital firms, and 2) due to the ~ human element ~ central to dealmaking, AI will never fully replace investors at venture capital firms. So, should the Patagonia class be worried? God, I hope. There’s way too much dumb money in this industry, and most investors suck. But we don’t need AI to cut the fat, just hand me the roster and a red pen. I’ll do it for free in an hour. In terms of AI’s role in this specifically? Look: any investor useless enough to have already been replaced by a robot should be rethinking his career regardless of the macro trends in tech. There may come a time when robots can source and close deals, but today that notion’s still just science fiction, which is probably what the model asked to write this stupid piece was trained on.

It’s been two weeks since Boeing’s Starliner capsule was supposed to bring a pair of astronauts home from ISS. While mechanical problems facing the craft have mostly been fixed, engineers want more time to study the data, and the mission delay is being framed as yet another disaster for the company. But honestly? I kind of love the danger of it all. These days, when I step on a Boeing I feel like I’m entering a Red Bull highlight reel. For a moment, I’m not a boring white-collar worker, I’m risking my life, and that pumps me up. Also, haters can’t admit it but recklessly Yolo-ing astronauts to space with no plans to get them back is goated. This is the cowboy mindset America used to have. “Safety first” can’t compete with SpaceX while Elon’s landing rockets. Boeing needs a culture of engineering excellence, and that starts with an exciting challenge. Good work, team. Challenge delivered

Reid Hoffman, LinkedIn founder and tech’s top DNC donor, penned a rebuttal to David Sacks following the latter’s endorsement of Trump, attempting a point-by-point dismantling of Sacks’ pro-Trump argument — or, in Reid’s words, his “pro-Trump groupthink.” Hoffman’s key points: Trump will make the border worse (lmao what), he’ll be disastrous for world peace (Ukraine? Israel? How is Afghanistan doing, by the way?), our economy is strong (Big Mac prices be damned), and the claims of lawfare against Trump are overblown (from the man who literally personally funded the E Jean Carroll lawsuit). But to the question of Hoffman’s central point, that “wealthy donors” are out of touch, I agree. Casually dropping millions on a lawsuit to take out a politician you don’t like while the average American struggles to buy food? Couldn’t be me.

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