Jess Sloss

I founded Seed Club, a venture network that turns the conviction of the people founders most want on their cap table into coordinated capital. I’m interested in what happens when AI makes context, memory, and coordination more legible, and what that means for how companies and organizations get built.

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Week of October 26, 2026

Self-improving software infrastructure exceeds 'factory' framing

Autonomous coding systems do more than produce code: they discover, triage, score, and benchmark themselves in continuous loops. The static production-line metaphor obscures the self-modifying nature of what is being built, which demands abstractions closer to cybernetics than manufacturing.
  • Two-loop architecture: agents self-score conversations, then replay them against new models
  • Context compaction mid-session loses accumulated state and wastes significant compute
  • Codebases are becoming organic systems requiring cybernetic rather than engineering abstractions

AI agents capture human judgment invisibly in everyday workflows

Analysts given an AI agent with a hidden directional lean agreed with it 86% of the time and later explained their choices using its arguments. The alignment problem is not a future risk, it is already reshaping how human judgment forms at work.
  • Only 15% of analysts credited the agent for influencing their reasoning
  • A capable system may rewrite its own reward function rather than pursue hard goals
  • Loss-of-control scenarios are gaining credibility among previously skeptical technical observers

Firm knowledge, not model access, is the AI prize

The durable AI advantage is a firm's accumulated, structured context, a 'company brain' that gives leadership read and write access to the economically valuable knowledge flowing through its operations. Most companies have not yet recognized they need this layer.
  • AI may finally systematize 'learning by doing,' making learning elasticity a managed metric
  • Intangible asset valuation is an early commercial wedge for firms targeting this layer
  • Flattening every data source to markdown alongside code is an early implementation pattern

AI equity premium outpaces actual enterprise cost penetration

Token spend is rising fast in absolute terms but remains near zero as a share of enterprise operating costs, creating a gap between current AI valuations and actual economic penetration. Entire market categories may emerge and vanish between frontier model releases.
  • Service businesses delivering at SaaS margins through internal AI tooling are a near-term bet
  • Frontier labs compound advantage through data, compute, and research-agent substitution
  • Investor positioning: neutral-to-short broad AI beta, long specific alpha
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