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Marc Simoncini discovers what AI can do and launches a company in 8 days
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An AI-native company in 8 days: "from Minitel to Claude, wtf!"

Marc Simoncini locked himself up for eight days with YouTuber Aywen to build an AI-native company. The experiment has only just started - and it already says something exciting about the new rules of entrepreneurship.

A Adrien Torris20 June 20266 min read

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Cisco and the real work behind agentic AI
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"Only 14% of companies are ready": Cisco and the real work behind agentic AI

In an interview with Maddyness, Cisco confirms the shift from generative AI to agentic AI - and reminds us that only a small minority of companies is genuinely ready to deploy it at scale. The good news? The obstacle is neither technology nor talent: it is integration, governance and people. Three things you can act on today.

AAdrien Torris30 Jun
Analysis

The approved spec IS the prompt

Agentic development makes you lose the mental map of your product. Here is the conviction that gave birth to Survol: describing a feature once, properly, beats ten throwaway prompts.

AAdrien Torris14 Jun
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