25-year-old CEO: even AI builders can't keep up; his hackathon team built Operis in one night
Dramatic_Heron_23 · reddit · 2026-11-08
A 25-year-old two-time founder (Dartmouth grad) reflects on how even people building with AI daily struggle to keep pace with change. He worries about veterans whose hard-won expertise is being revalued, and for whom relearning is far harder.
His core point: intelligence is about knowing how to find out, not knowing what to do — and he urges cross-generational mutual help. He also reveals Operis, built overnight at a hackathon on Naïve: a product where AI agents hire humans to do physical-world tasks, a speed of creation he finds both exciting and unsettling.
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