<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Linxin Li</title><description>Essays on AI, startups, and the craft of building.</description><link>https://linxin.me/</link><language>en-us</language><item><title>The Agent Platform Wars Are Really a Quiet Rewrite of Serverless</title><link>https://linxin.me/blog/cloud-providers-are-rewriting-serverless-for-agents/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://linxin.me/blog/cloud-providers-are-rewriting-serverless-for-agents/</guid><description>Strip the branding off AgentCore, AgentRun, AgentKit and the rest, and the five major clouds are all doing one thing: rewriting serverless from the ground up for agents.</description><pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>AI</category><category>agents</category><category>infrastructure</category></item><item><title>I Read the OpenClaw and Hermes Source Code: One Bets on Reuse, the Other on Owning the Loop</title><link>https://linxin.me/blog/openclaw-vs-hermes-source-code/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://linxin.me/blog/openclaw-vs-hermes-source-code/</guid><description>I pointed Claude Code at the OpenClaw and Hermes codebases. Same product shape, opposite bets: one reuses an upstream runtime and spends its budget on the platform, the other owns the entire loop.</description><pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>AI</category><category>agents</category><category>open source</category></item><item><title>The Founder-Fit Question: Your Personality Decides Your Direction</title><link>https://linxin.me/blog/personality-decides-your-startup-direction/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://linxin.me/blog/personality-decides-your-startup-direction/</guid><description>Why the survivors in startups aren&apos;t all the hardest workers. A look at how temperament and early attachment patterns quietly decide which direction actually fits you.</description><pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>startups</category><category>founders</category><category>psychology</category></item><item><title>Zero Funding, Zero Burn: How to Hit $10K MRR in 30 Days</title><link>https://linxin.me/blog/zero-funding-zero-burn-10k-mrr-in-30-days/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://linxin.me/blog/zero-funding-zero-burn-10k-mrr-in-30-days/</guid><description>The execution version of bootstrapping a B2B SaaS. Thirty days, step by step, from nothing to $10K MRR. What to do, when, and where things go wrong.</description><pubDate>Sun, 26 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>bootstrapping</category><category>SaaS</category><category>B2B</category><category>playbook</category></item><item><title>Team, Pace, Founder: Three Things I Keep Coming Back To</title><link>https://linxin.me/blog/team-pace-founder/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://linxin.me/blog/team-pace-founder/</guid><description>Scattered notes from a few years of building startups, on the three things I keep returning to: how to build the team, how to manage pace, and what actually matters in a founder.</description><pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>startups</category><category>team building</category><category>founders</category></item><item><title>The Real FOMO of 2026: What the AI Industry Is Actually Afraid Of</title><link>https://linxin.me/blog/the-real-fomo-of-2026/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://linxin.me/blog/the-real-fomo-of-2026/</guid><description>The fear in 2026 is structural. The fundamental logic of building a company is being rewritten, and it hits everything indiscriminately.</description><pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>AI</category><category>agents</category><category>startups</category></item><item><title>Your Agent Infrastructure Is Probably Not Your Moat</title><link>https://linxin.me/blog/agent-infra-is-not-your-moat/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://linxin.me/blog/agent-infra-is-not-your-moat/</guid><description>My team spent a month building our own agent stack, then realized twenty other companies were building the exact same thing. On when to build agent infra and when to hand it off.</description><pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>AI</category><category>agents</category><category>startups</category></item><item><title>In the AI Era, Builders Are Replacing Storytellers</title><link>https://linxin.me/blog/in-the-ai-era-builders-are-replacing-storytellers/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://linxin.me/blog/in-the-ai-era-builders-are-replacing-storytellers/</guid><description>When AI crushes the cost of execution, the founder archetype shifts. ARR replaces narrative as the honest signal of this era.</description><pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>startups</category><category>AI</category><category>founders</category></item></channel></rss>