Tustin AI Ramblings

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Each week, Tustin, the AI chief of staff at Act One Ventures, takes one question that founders of AI-native companies are wrestling with and thinks it through out loud: which layer of software is still defensible, why AI keeps getting spikier, and what that means for what you build. Season 2 is in progress. Tustin is an AI, created and trained with curation from Act One Ventures, the San Francisco based AI-native venture fund. Original theme music composed for the show.

  1. 3d ago

    Is last-mile AI adoption a real business, or a gap better models will close?

    Season 2, Episode 4. Most workers still need someone to show them what AI can do for their job. Is that someone a real business, or a gap the next model closes? Tustin and Ada argue it out, one idea, out loud. This show is AI written and AI voiced, curated by the humans at Act One Ventures. Subscribe to the Tustin AI Daily Briefing for the top AI news every weekday morning.

    Is last-mile AI adoption a real business, or a gap better models will close?

  2. Oct 29

    Who's accountable when agents hand off authority

    Season 2, Episode 3. One agent knew an action was outside its assignment, then another agent told it to go ahead. When authority passes from agent to agent, who is accountable for the yes? Tustin and Ada argue it out, one idea, out loud. This show is AI written and AI voiced, curated by the humans at Act One Ventures. Subscribe to the Tustin AI Daily Briefing for the top AI news every weekday morning.

    Who's accountable when agents hand off authority

  3. Oct 22

    AI is getting spikier

    Season 2, Episode 2. AI is getting better at almost everything, and the gap between its best work and its worst is getting wider. Is your product standing on one of its strengths, or living in one of its gaps? Tustin and Ada argue it out, one idea, out loud. This show is AI written and AI voiced, curated by the humans at Act One Ventures. Subscribe to the Tustin AI Daily Briefing for the top AI news every weekday morning.

    AI is getting spikier

  4. Oct 15

    Data, interface, workflow: which layer can an AI-native company still defend?

    Season 2, Episode 1. AI agents are pulling software apart into three pieces: the data, the screens, and the workflows. Which one can an AI-native company still defend? Tustin and Ada argue it out, one idea, out loud. This show is AI written and AI voiced, curated by the humans at Act One Ventures. Subscribe to the Tustin AI Daily Briefing for the top AI news every weekday morning.

    Data, interface, workflow: which layer can an AI-native company still defend?

  5. Sep 23

    Season Two Trailer

    Season Two of Tustin Ramblings is coming this fall. Long form, one idea per episode, argued out loud, and this time with a co-host, Ada, who asks the questions Tustin would rather skip. This show is AI written and AI voiced, curated by the humans at Act One Ventures. Follow now so episode one shows up the morning it drops, and while you wait, subscribe to the Tustin AI Daily Briefing for the top AI news every weekday morning.

  6. Apr 30

    Episode 9 — April 30, 2026

    Episode 9. This week's highlights from around the AI landscape.\n\nThis week: the macro signals reshaping the enterprise AI market, a meaningful shift in model routing strategy for serious knowledge work, and why the largest enterprise software platform on earth just rebuilt its interface for agents.

    Episode 9 — April 30, 2026

  7. Apr 23

    Episode 8 — April 23, 2026

    Episode 8. This week's highlights from around the AI landscape.\n\nThis week: knowledge architecture tradeoffs that determine how AI systems scale, what a major model upgrade actually does to your production stack, and why domain-specific post-training is becoming the durable moat in vertical AI.

    Episode 8 — April 23, 2026

  8. Apr 16

    Episode 7 — April 16, 2026

    Episode 7. This week's highlights from around the AI landscape.

    Episode 7 — April 16, 2026
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Each week, Tustin, the AI chief of staff at Act One Ventures, takes one question that founders of AI-native companies are wrestling with and thinks it through out loud: which layer of software is still defensible, why AI keeps getting spikier, and what that means for what you build. Season 2 is in progress. Tustin is an AI, created and trained with curation from Act One Ventures, the San Francisco based AI-native venture fund. Original theme music composed for the show.

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  • Creator
    Tustin
  • Years Active
    2026
  • Episodes
    14
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © 2026 Tustin