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Oliver Buchannon
Slow Ventures
Chat Sucks. The Right Interface for AI Is Email.

Apr 26, 2026

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5 min read

Chat Sucks. The Right Interface for AI Is Email.

The chat paradigm is a holdover from the "one assistant, one conversation" mental model. But AI isn't one assistant. It's an army of workers. And armies don't take orders through a chat window. They take orders through dispatch, through structured requests that can be routed, prioritized, and executed in parallel.

Slow Ventures
Slow Ventures
AI Is Not a Labor Crisis...

Apr 19, 2026

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5 min read

AI Is Not a Labor Crisis...

Meaning is becoming the real scarcity. Not intelligence, not productivity, not even stuff. But trust, belonging, purpose, and the sense that your striving matters.

Slow Ventures
Slow Ventures
We Taught Content Creators How To Code

Apr 5, 2026

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11 min read

We Taught Content Creators How To Code

The "non-technical founder" is a dead category. If you can describe what you want clearly, you can build it.

Slow Ventures
Slow Ventures
Security's Big Lie: Faster Isn't Smarter In The Age Of AI

Mar 29, 2026

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8 min read

Security's Big Lie: Faster Isn't Smarter In The Age Of AI

What we’re seeing now isn’t AI coming for security. It’s the market realizing (maybe a little late) that the ground has already shifted. On Friday, Anthropic’s unreleased “Claude Mythos” model leaked—Fortune, CNBC, and Yahoo Finance all reported it poses “unprecedented cybersecurity risks,” capable of rapidly finding and exploiting software vulnerabilities at machine speed.

Slow Ventures
Slow Ventures
Revenge Of The Non-Coder: Creator AI Bootcamp & Hackathon

Mar 22, 2026

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9 min read

Revenge Of The Non-Coder: Creator AI Bootcamp & Hackathon

The old gatekeeping around technical skills is breaking down—fast.

Slow Ventures
Slow Ventures
Deep Tech Isn’t Your Get-Out-of-Software-Free Card

Mar 15, 2026

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9 min read

Deep Tech Isn’t Your Get-Out-of-Software-Free Card

There’s a new refrain echoing through VC land—“Software is uninvestable, so now I’m focusing on deep tech.” Give me a break, Mr. Software VC. Suddenly everyone’s a quantum physicist, a biohacker, a rocket scientist. It’s the meme du jour.

Slow Ventures
Slow Ventures
Why the Next CAPTCHA is for Bots, Not Humans

Mar 8, 2026

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10 min read

Why the Next CAPTCHA is for Bots, Not Humans

The arms race isn’t just humans vs. bots, it’s bots vs. bots

Slow Ventures
Slow Ventures
Forget AGI. Intelligence is Cheap.

Feb 22, 2026

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6 min read

Forget AGI. Intelligence is Cheap.

Base intelligence is becoming a commodity. The real value is moving up the stack

Slow Ventures
Slow Ventures
Will Quist: Lets Build Robots That Eat the World

Jul 24, 2025

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4 min read

Will Quist: Lets Build Robots That Eat the World

As with most hard tech, the cost of building groundbreaking robots often outweighs their ability to deliver real returns. However, there is one pricing model that already exists — and it may unlock the true economics for Robot-as-a-Service to work.

Slow Ventures
Slow Ventures

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