Security engineers at Datadog are paid the same as software engineers. AI is redistributing engineering talent — as demand for tier-1 coders drops, security teams are gaining access to technical talent they never could afford before.
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Escobar recounts a roundtable on agentic security he led the previous week where the dominant emotion among participants was helplessness — a waiting game for commercial products to make the problem go away [1] — Emilio Escobar "At a recent roundtable on agentic security, most security leaders expressed a sense of helplessness — waiting for a commercial product to s…" 11:48 . He finds this troubling, not because buying security products is wrong, but because the space is moving too fast for passive observation. De la Garza picks up the thread, tracing the talent gap back to the CISO role's origins: the title barely existed a generation ago, and when security teams grew large enough to need managers, the profession hired managers — not technologists. That history means a lot of CISO programs are structured around procurement rather than building. For companies where software isn't the competitive advantage, that's defensible. For companies like Datadog, it isn't.
Joel de la Garza noted that the CISO role is a relatively recent invention, with Steve Katz widely credited as the first-ever CISO.
With AI coding tools like Cursor, Bhanu replicates an existing free tool for a new keyword in under 5 minutes. What used to be a multi-day build is now a lunch-break task.
Ahrefs, SiteGPT, Cal.com, PostHog, Datafast, Sibyl AI, Bento, Feather, Featurepace, Mintlify, Cloud Code, ChartMogul — Bhanu runs his entire business solo with these 12 tools.
PropGPT runs on React Native with TypeScript and Python for ML, Neon for the database, RevenueCat and Superwall for monetization. LLM costs are $20/month, data APIs $100/month, and after $10K in monthly marketing spend, margins sit at roughly 50%.
Game apps keep users engaged long enough for ads to pay off. Tool apps don't — so if you're building a utility, ads are almost always the wrong call and subscriptions are your only real lever.
Inside SEO Bot, a single button labelled 'Boost My Domain Rating' routes users directly to Listing Bot. That one interaction converts a user of one tool into a user of two — without any marketing cost.
Directory listings are a powerful but underrated growth channel — but only if your product is genuinely interesting enough to earn the click. AI products have a natural advantage here because they're easy to package in a compelling, clickable way.
The fastest path to Twitter growth isn't volume — it's forming sharp opinions about how the platform works and sharing them immediately. People cluster around those who understand the rules and say so out loud.
Sam had no coding knowledge, so he used ChatGPT voice mode to generate his entire codebase and copy-pasted it into Notepad. A friend later introduced him to Cursor, and he never looked back.
Copy days of Discord chat history, paste it into ChatGPT, and ask it to list recurring pain points. The ones that come up most often are your best product bets.
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