📹 Silicon Society’s Platform, 🔨 Founder’s Corner, 💁♀️ Sassy AI
Volume 21
Silicon Society is building the future of AI-enabled Shadow-based learning.
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Silicon Society enables shadowing experiences online and at scale, making learning happen the same place doing happens—in the real world. Individuals who want to learn something can just shadow a professional doing their job. Companies who need to upskill their teams can get access for their employees to do the same.
As they follow along, they get AI-powered supporting content in real time, generated according to what’s happening organically, and tailored directly to their learning goals. And as they shadow more sessions, their own personalized curriculum evolves to dynamically steer them to the types of experiences that will propel them forward and optimize their learning journey.
The future of education is not school.
➡️ Silicon Society’s agency enables us to build incredible products for companies - and expose members to new skills in the process. Watch Robert Sharp cast a Shadow as he deploys Story Squad’s mobile app to iOS and Android.
Curated media & resources from the past few weeks:
Founder’s Corner
We’ve heard you loud and clear - there are a number of founders reading who could use a resource round-up. We got you. Introducing the Founder’s Corner - a list of high-value networking events, funding opportunities you should know about, not-cookie-cutter sales advice & more!
🔗 Links:
🧪 A great resource from Rob Synder @ Harvard Innovation Labs about how to get from 0-1 when you are still working out Product Market Fit
🌱 A very transparent account of what worked & didn’t work for this founder as he successfully grew his Canva app to over 10k users. (Skip to 8:02 for free $150 in LinkedIn ad credits.)
👩🏻💻 Femme founders: If Rouge Women Venture Fund isn’t on your radar yet,check it out! They invest in women-led software companies, and write average check sizes of $500K.
AI Coding Assistant Cursor reportedly tells ‘vibe coder’ to write his own damn code
Vibe Coding. Attitude. Differing experiences with AI. This quick anecdote is tech in early 2025 in a nutshell.
🗯️Quotable Bit: “But Cursor’s refusal also sounded an awful lot like the replies newbie coders could get when asking questions on programming forum Stack Overflow, folks on Hacker News pointed out. The suggestion is that if Cursor trained on that site it may have learned not just coding tips, but human snark as well.”
The end of programming as we know it
There are too many quotes to choose from here - this article is part history of software development, part manifesto on coding accessibility, and part future-oriented insights without the grandiose predictions and fluff. Best summary of the current moment in coding that we’ve seen in months.
🗯️Quotable Bit: “I still don’t buy it. When there’s a breakthrough that puts advanced computing power into the hands of a far larger group of people, yes, ordinary people can do things that were once the domain of highly trained specialists. But that same breakthrough also enables new kinds of services and demand for those services. It creates new sources of deep magic that only a few understand.”