The Sorrow of AI Startups - Development is Dead, Data is Eternal
It’s been a while since I’ve written. With a moment to spare today, I want to share my experiences from the past two years of AI development and entrepreneurship. Now, in the second half of 2025, having led several AI projects including my own startup, Hika, I can make a bold claim: building AI products has become deceptively easy, but building an AI business is harder than ever. Prompt is All You Need This is an insight I shared in an article a year ago, and it holds truer than ever today. Prompt Engineering, RAG, MCP, Agents—all these fancy terms are just different ways to feed a large model a prompt with the right context. ...