@bosmeny: YC is quietly building a counter-drone ecosystem. @PerseusDefense - Guided missiles to shoot down drones @9Mothers - AI…
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YC is building a counter-drone ecosystem with startups like Perseus Defense, 9Mothers, surtrdefense, and Milliray, focusing on guided missiles, AI machine guns, sensor fusion, and drone detection.
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YC is quietly building a counter-drone ecosystem.
@PerseusDefense - Guided missiles to shoot down drones @9Mothers - AI machine guns to shoot down drones @surtrdefense - Open OS that fuses every sensor into one threat picture Milliray - Spots drones too small for legacy systems https://t.co/VnjybTZQXh
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@manateelazycat: YC's video is worth watching. He hit the nail on the head sharing how AI-native companies should think about organizational structure. I really agree with several key points: 1. The company is a Roman legion, where individual soldiers are strong and there are no weak links, so they never fall into chaos during any tactical execution. 2. The co-pilot model is wrong; we should let AI do it completely because AI executes 10 to 100 times faster than you. If it makes mistakes, just redo it; the second and third attempts are still much faster than you writing code manually. 3. Burn tokens, not heads. That is so true. I think any AI-native company should give employees unlimited tokens. Like our company: many ask how we reimburse AI costs. We don't reimburse; we give everyone unlimited GPT 5.5 tokens, use as much as you want, no reimbursement process. Only with unlimited tokens will people use them and unleash their creativity without psychological burden. 4. Make everything clear and readable for AI. Let me interpret: previously you wrote documents manually, and people didn't want to. Now open up all document interfaces and MCP to AI as much as possible. When you open up to AI, it can use its organizational capabilities to create new company processes. Previously, building internal infrastructure systems was difficult due to huge workloads and many aspects. Now, as long as you expose enough MCPs and APIs, new processes are a matter of one sentence. 5. People are temporary, but contextual documents are important. That's also well said. In the future, the most important things for software companies will be requirement documents, context documents, and process documents. Because code is easy to recreate, but these documents and thought processes are the company's real assets. Alright, that's today's share. Welcome to like, bookmark, and repost. Follow me, I'm a veteran who has been working on operating systems for over 20 years. My daily job is browsing Twitter and reposting valuable content to save your time.
User shares agreement with the views from YC's video on AI-native company organizational structure, including burning tokens instead of heads, letting AI fully autonomously execute tasks, and the importance of documents as core assets.