Clouded Judgement

JULY 18, 2025

Instead of macro commentary, market commentary or some specific piece of AI commentary, I thought I’d treat this weeks post more as a personal journal entry. Follow along to stay up to date! Subscribe now The Return of the Point Solution Different type of post this week. Just look at Claude Code - they only went GA a couple months ago!

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SaaStr

MARCH 5, 2025

Codium is one of the fastest-growing startups in the AI coding assistant space, having scaled its go-to-market team from 3 to 75 in just under a year. Recently valued at over $1 billion , Codium is proving that AI-driven software development is not just the futureits the present.

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SaaStr

JUNE 19, 2025

Inside Snowflake’s Board Meetings: How AI is Reshaping Enterprise Data and the Future of B2B Partnerships We had a lot of fun at SaaStr AI Summit 2025 with a rare look inside Snowflake’s boardroom! The days of relationship-only selling are over in AI-adjacent markets. This unique relationship reveals how the $4.5B

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SaaStr

JUNE 30, 2025

Salesforce: The 6% AI-Driven Increase Salesforce implemented a 6% price increase for its Enterprise and Unlimited Editions, effective August 1, 2025. The company positioned this as reflecting the value of new AI capabilities through their Agentforce platform. per user per month. per user (6.7%

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SaaStr

JUNE 9, 2025

The HubSpot AI Playbook: How Yamini Rangan Is Leading the Most Aggressive B2B AI Transformation HubSpot’s CEO came to SaaStr Annual + AI Summit to do a deep and honest dive on how she’s transforming the company into an AI-first $2.75B+ ARR B2B leader. And what it means for the future of B2B software.

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Full Session

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Both are good but serve different purposes in software development and marketing. Automated personalization: Use AI to deliver personalized content in real-time. If you need feature control in complex environments, LaunchDarkly might be better for you. Support LaunchDarkly has email and chat for real-time support.

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How To Buy Saas

MAY 26, 2025

Picture this youre drafting an email and your software suggests the next sentence with uncanny accuracy, or youre chatting with a customer service bot that feels almost human. These marvels are powered by Large Language Models (LLMs) giant AI systems trained on vast amounts of text.

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SaaStr

JUNE 10, 2025

Social media is full of hot takes about AI replacing developers, the death of software engineering, and whether we’re all doomed or destined for greatness. And AI makes it much, much faster to build. The Brutal Math of Pre-AI Development What did B2B software look like before AI coding tools?

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SaaStr

JULY 1, 2025

“I just get so much more done today with the AI on the team instead of the humans on the team.” — leading CMO to me, last week. That’s the new speed of business in the AI era. I’ve been in B2B software now for 20+ years (!). Not just the software (with AI). Fast as Frack. I’ve seen cycles.

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SaaStr

JUNE 27, 2025

Leading crossover VC firm Coatue recently put together its highly detailed East Meets West Conference overview of AI, Growth and Tech here. 3: The AI Coding Boom Generated $1.3B 3: The AI Coding Boom Generated $1.3B 3: The AI Coding Boom Generated $1.3B Speed of execution in AI is unlike anything we’ve seen.

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SaaStr

JULY 14, 2025

The last 72 hours in AI coding have been nothing short of extraordinary. The AI Coding Gold Rush: Comparing Valuations To understand whether Windsurf sold cheap, we need to examine the broader AI coding landscape. Traditional strong B2B companies trade at 10-15x ARR, but AI coding tools are commanding 15-40x multiples.

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FastSpring

APRIL 24, 2025

That would literally stop someone from being able to do those are a good place to start, but they are not the end solution because there are some things that just require context and AI is just not there yet and can’t identify the issues. so I think Jesse Paliotto (15:27) Wow. accessibility on this line with notes.

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User Pilot

MAY 31, 2025

Intercom Mobile is a suite of mobile software development kits (SDKs) that lets you embed customer messaging , support, and engagement into your mobile app. Multilingual support and powerful localization features: Unlike Intercom Mobile, Userpilot offers AI-powered, one-click translation into over 32 languages. Intercom pricing.

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SaaStr

APRIL 1, 2025

Sam Blond and Jason Lemkin joined together for a live SaaStr Workshop Wednesday looking at what has and what hasn’t changed in 2025 in GTM in general and in the age of AI. Even in the Age of AI. Toast: Domain Expertise Isn’t Always Transferable.

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Tom Tunguz

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

The major areas of AI innovation automate white-collar work. It’s striking that most of them already have a significant number of AI startups pursuing their ambitions to change workflows. Occupation Employment (in millions) AI Technology Software Developers & IT 2.71 Sales Managers 0.4 Sales Managers 0.4

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Frontegg

MAY 7, 2025

As an experienced software development manager who’s spent years championing clean code and engineering best practices, I’ve always treated the SOLID principles as gospel. With LLMs writing significant chunks of our software, it feels like science fiction. I’ve long preached these rules to every team I’ve led.

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TechEmpower SaaS

JULY 24, 2023

Artificial Intelligence Does your application leverage AI in any way? How can we use AI to improve the customer experience? AI Assisted Development How can we use AI to speed up our SLDC? How can we leverage AI to get our product to market faster? What about an AI support assistant? Fulfillment?

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TechEmpower SaaS

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Now that AI is here to help, every textbox is an opportunity to help a customer through the challenge. TechEmpower can help In the era of LLMs and Generative AI, empty textboxes are a product mistake. Note how this version incorporates Mark’s feedback and descriptive keywords. In the pre-LLM era, an empty textbox was a tough challenge.

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SaaStr

APRIL 9, 2024

At SaaStr’s AI Day, George Kreitler, Global IBM Embeddable AI Sales Leader, talks about the paradox of AI, three equations that relate to the world productivity and AI, a little math to help guide the next decade, top use cases, and the importance of responsible AI. Why does this matter in the world of AI?

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Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Machine learning’s demand for data has accelerated this movement because AI needs data to function. Data teams receive tickets from their internal customers & develop data products that serve both internal & external users, much like a classic product management & engineering team.

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Andreessen Horowitz

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

At a technical level, artificial intelligence seems to be the future of software.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 1, 2024

monday.com’s pushing hard into AI, enterprise, and vertical-specific solutions. Key Metrics Worth Noting: 85% of enterprise expansion comes from existing customers Users spend average 2.5 Becoming the default operating system for work, period.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 4, 2024

joined forces with the incredibly talented Eiso Kant to build the world’s most capable AI for software development. The pace of innovation in AI today is like nothing I’ve ever seen before in my career. Jason Warner , who was CTO of GitHub before and during my time as COO there (and a former partner at Redpoint!)

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Tom Tunguz

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Recently, Philip shared his management techniques to run a data team like a standard product software development function with some key nuances. I asked him to join us on Office Hours to share his perspective because we believe data and software engineering practices converge. On December 14th at 9.30

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

And the broad impact of this wave of AI is already creating the sort of massive value we’ve seen with other platform shifts, like the internet, mobile, cloud. AI today 1. But there will be more breakthroughs because now all the AI scientists in the world are working on making the stuff better. Noam Shazeer, Character.AI

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User Pilot

DECEMBER 6, 2023

First, you teach them how to use the product so that they can test it thoroughly without relying on the customer support team or software developers for guidance. Using AI tools to identify patterns in qualitative user feedback and following up with respondents for further insights. This kills two birds with one stone.

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Andreessen Horowitz

JUNE 21, 2023

This has particularly … The post The Getting Started with AI Stack for JavaScript appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz. At least, that’s what the a16z infrastructure team has found— and because so many of us started our careers as programmers, we’re often learning by doing.

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FastSpring

AUGUST 2, 2023

Staying Ahead of AI’s Influence on Business: “Work Is About to Change” As TestDome’s business continues to grow, another market change they’re growing with is the influence of AI on the remote testing industry. TestDome’s primary service has been pre-employment screening testing that helps hirers find the best candidates for a job.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

This conversation is part of our AI Revolution series, which features some of the most impactful builders in the field of AI discussing and debating where we are, where we’re going, and the big open questions in AI. Find more content from our AI Revolution series on www.a16z.com/AIRevolution.

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User Pilot

DECEMBER 21, 2023

AI is a big talking point, making waves in many different industries. One of the best ways of keeping up to date with the rapidly growing subject is by listening to AI podcasts. These podcasts can deliver you the latest developments and news in an audio format you can listen to while driving or walking a dog. TL;DR Podcast.ai

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SaaStock

MARCH 8, 2019

With more than 15 years of solid experience, today she is the Chief Operations Officer at the Ping An Health Cloud, known as the most advanced AI healthcare technology. And then she studied software development at Fullstack Academy. Straight after Fullstack, she became Founder and Managing Partner at Altitude Labs.

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TurnKey Labs

MAY 1, 2023

When it comes to software development trends, it always pays for tech startups and high growth companies to be one step ahead so they can proactively leverage these trends to their advantage. Here are the Top 20 software development trends we expect to impact tech companies the most in 2023: #1.

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IT World

APRIL 3, 2023

Last week, a who’s who of technologists called for artificial intelligence (AI) labs to stop training the most powerful AI systems for at least six months, citing "profound risks to society and humanity." To read this article in full, please click here

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TurnKey Labs

DECEMBER 11, 2023

When it comes to software development trends, it always pays for tech startups and high growth companies to be one step ahead so they can proactively leverage these trends to their advantage. This year, they face new challenges and find new opportunities.

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Audacix

APRIL 3, 2023

Table Of Contents The strangest reality of application security in the age of "shift left" is the poor understanding of DAST tools (dynamic vulnerability scanning tools) and, particularly, the value that they the offer as part of a modern software development lifecycle. Most DAST tools are built for cyber experts, not software teams.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

are making it easier and faster for software developers to develop complex software applications atop this infrastructure. What took you months to ideate, design and develop can now be copied in days or weeks thanks to these new tools. AI is potentially the next elephant waiting to enter the room.

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