Marcelo Calbucci

I'm looking forward to ChatGPT version 7.3 with Ultra-Extreme-Insane-Beyond Thinking mode.

Applications open for the Startup Day 2026 Startup Fair. 10-15 startups, demo tables, 400+ founders and investors in the room. Apply by April 10.

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There is a time that parents must talk with their teenagers about the dangers of clawdbot.

18 advisors just announced for @seattleflow.org Startup Day 2026's Advisory Room. Investors from Madrona, M12, Graham & Walker, and more. Book 1:1 sessions with the advisor of your choice.

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How We Built This | Startup Day 2026 | Seattle Flow How we built the Startup Day conference website in three weeks using AI, Claude Code, and zero lines of hand-written code.

Built the Startup Day 2026 Conference website and back-office with Claude Code. Zero hand-written code. 3 weeks. 130 tickets.

I wrote an article covering the design, strategy, workflow, deployment, testing, etc.

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We are going to see the first tech public company generating $10M in profit per employee before we see the first one-person billion-dollar company.

May 15th. 400 founders. The conference Seattle's been missing.

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James, this conference is for tech-based startups in any industry segment, from idea stage to Series A.

Startup Day 2026 | The Founder Conference | Seattle - May/15 Seattle's one-day conference for founders and future founders. Tactical talks, co-founder matching, advisory meetings, startup fair. May 15, 2026.

Whether you have customers and are well on your way to raise your next round, or if you just started with a side-project, this day is for you.

May 15
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For the builders: what else do you want to see at the conference?

We hand-picked 15 founder-speakers including Rand Fishkin, David Shim, Maria Colacurcio, and more.

Every talk covers a real stage of the startup journey, from "should I do this?" to acquisition. No theory. No consultants. Just founders sharing what worked in recent years.

Startup Day is a full day of talks, co-founder matching, a startup fair, and 1:1 meetings with 40+ investors, experts, and experienced founders.

It's built by founders, for founders.

I’ve been building Seattle’s startup community for over 15 years. For the last 4 months, I've been working with dozens of people to build something we need right now. On May 15, 400+ founders are coming together in Seattle for @seattleflow.org Startup Day.

Something is happening in Seattle right now. Layoffs + AI + Tech + ☔️ = countless side-projects, ready for the next step -> Founders galore.

What's missing is a place where it all connects.

We built it. 🧵

The people rejecting AI in their personal and professional lives today have the same attitude as the people rejecting calculators in the 1970s.

Non-coders vibe-code a task/to-do/project mgmt app and extrapolate that all software will be built this way. In the 2010s, these were entry-level coding exercises when people were learning React, Angular, Kotlin, etc. LLMs have been trained on thousands of them. it won't scale to other categories.

SaaS and software are not dead Marcelo Calbucci Founder, Author, Tech/Prod, Community Builder

SaaS: "The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated!"

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Imagine a world where Google Search doesn't display your product or service. Does your company even exist? How do you find customers in that case?

Microsoft and Software Survival Microsoft got hammered on Wall Street for capacity allocation decisions that were the right ones: the software that wins will use AI to usurp other software.

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This article by Stratechery is a must-read to examine the future of tech, software, and AI. The adage from Bill Gates that we overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the next 10 is out the window. We don't know what’s going to happen in two or twenty years.

Anguilla is cashing in while it can.

Job in a tech company:

Software Engineer

Sr. Software Engineer

Staff Software Engineer

Principal Engineer

Distinguished Engineer

Job in a bank:

Associate Software Engineer

Associate Dir. Software Engineer

Sr. Associate VP of Software Engineering

Executive Sr. SVP of Software Engineering

Looks like OpenAI is losing its magic. It went from having the Midas touch to being a curse for its key partners in less than six months.

I can't remember who said that working with AI today is like learning incantations. It's such a spot-on observation. Knowing the right combo of words gets you amazing results. Asking too little, you get no value. Asking too much muddles things. We need to attend AI Hogwarts.

I miss when social media created community around events. Both attendees and others would follow a hashtag, get to participate and "feel" the conference.

I actually makes very little difference if you are following 2, 200, or 20,000 accounts. The algorithm will fill your feed with content it assumes you like. Less so on Bluesky, but your following list is almost irrelevant on other networks.

Social media algorithms have transformed to the point where there's near-zero value in following accounts, being followed, or reposting to your followers. It decides what you see. It decides what your followers see. Everything is a tiny signal in the engagement machine.

It's coming...

I don't remember when it happened, but ChatGPT gave up writing sentences and paragraphs. Now it's bullet points, numbered lists, and fragments.

The Age of Semantic Products Marcelo Calbucci Founder, Author, Tech/Prod, Community Builder

PowerPoint won't tell you your pitch deck doesn't make strategic sense. QuickBooks won't tell you your marketing strategy causes a cash-flow crunch. These are syntactical products based on structure and artifacts. AI is finally opening the age of Semantic Products.

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