AI Era Makes Research a Bullshit Metric: Judge Product Teams Purely on Traction
EnigmaFund · x · 2026-10-25
EnigmaFund argues teams distributing products via API or integrations should be judged 100% on traction — research is increasingly a bullshit metric.
- Everyone now has access to powerful models for a few bucks, so expecting authentic, non-replicable research (rather than credit-burning and social signaling) is garbage activity
- Teams should validate that what they build is useful to users and stop creating slop
- Blunt conclusion: if you can't get measurable adoption, you shouldn't be in entrepreneurship
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