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Tips
Make the machine write your one-star review first
A prompt that asks an AI to play the disappointed venture capitalist, the recruiter or the Amazon reviewer. The technique costs nothing and the criticism arrives before the audience does.
№ 102 · 20 August 2026
Working practices
Clay tells staff: writing a document should take longer than reading it
The sales software company has put a rule in writing about how long internal documents should take to produce. The detail of how it is enforced has not been published.
№ 73 · 13 August 2026
Founder tips
YC partners say one word gives away an AI-written application
Applications to Y Combinator have grown 60% longer in three years, and the word "wedge" now appears in more than a fifth of them. Two partners have said publicly what that tells them.
№ 33 · 9 August 2026