Own Your AI, Before AI Owns You Founder | Conservative Muslim | Proud American | Unapologetically traditional (If I offend you, you're most likely the problem)
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Syed Hussain retweeted
For a month, we described the same problem from different angles: the report nobody wants to rebuild, the pipeline going cold, the schedule that lives in one person's head.
Every version of it comes down to the same thing: work running on systems that were never built to think for themselves, or to be owned by the business using them.
That's what we build. Infrastructure businesses actually own, not software they rent indefinitely.
Own Your AI. Before AI Owns You.
Syed Hussain retweeted
Once agents start doing real work instead of just assisting with it, a new question shows up that used to not matter:
who actually owns the intelligence doing that work, and who is accountable when it gets something wrong.
That question is going to separate businesses more than any feature list will.
Syed Hussain retweeted
A sales rep sends out a quote.
Then another. Then another.
A few days later, there are dozens of prospects sitting in the pipeline, each at a different stage, each with a different level of intent.
And somewhere in that list is a customer who is ready to buy right now.
Syed Hussain retweeted
Every Monday, someone opens five different tabs, pulls numbers from a system that was not built to talk to any of them, and rebuilds the same report by hand.
Same numbers. Same format. Same person, doing the same thing, every single week. Nobody chose this job. It just accumulated, one export at a time.
Syed Hussain retweeted
Most AI companies treat ownership as a feature they'll add later.
Real ownership has to be built in from day one, not bolted on after. You can't retrofit sovereignty onto a system built to extract from you.
That's why we built our entire stack this way from the first line of code. Slower to build. The only way it holds up.
Syed Hussain retweeted
Meet and talk to our Founder & CEO @SerialTechX at @TokenizeCon and learn more about what a post-agentic world looks like.
Will AI eat the world? Syed Hussain is already building inside it.
Syed Hussain (@SerialTechX), Founder & CEO of @SHIZA_AI, is joining the "Will Open Claw Eat the World?" panel at Tokenize! LATAM in San Juan.
🗓 March 29–31, 2026
🎟 luma.com/TokenizeSJ2026
I'm one of the "SaaS will be dead soon" guys and this is a very sensible perspective, which I'm fully onboard with. Clearly not all SaaS will be dead, but this is the good, hard, strong kick in the ass that SaaS companies needed.
"Own Your AI Before AI Owns You"
In the post-agentic economy, the question isn’t if AI will replace jobs, it’s who will own the agents that do. 🏗️
Our founder breaks down why you shouldn't just use AI, but own it as a sovereign asset.
Don't rent your future from Big Tech. Build it on SHIZA. 🔐
Build. Capture. Own. Monetize. $AWF
100% brother. Seen this coming for the last 2 years and been building the Ark @SHIZA_AI
2020: "So you blockchain guys have built a solution and are now looking for a problem"
2026: "Agents are creating a multi-trillion dollar problem that will require a solution to enable a post-agentic economy"
"Blockchain UX has always been shit for humans because blockchains weren't built for humans. Signing transactions, gas, bridging. Humans hate it. Agents don't care. Most onchain activity is already bots. We've been building machine infrastructure this whole time."
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Looking forward to GAIB 2.0 👀!!
a lot of my ETH bros are coping imo and clinging to the L2 vision after Vitalik's xeet because we (including me) invested so much mental energy into the L2 vision, defending it against Solana bros about it, etc
maybe because I've had a lot of trauma in my life (and my crypto investing life) but I'm fast to adapt and move on--for me, Stage 2 no longer being real means this is not what ETH-heads should be focused on anymore to benefit Ethereum, and I've very quickly changed my mentality
as Vitalik made clear (and the market makes even clearer), the current type of independently financed "L2s" are definitely not dead & will continue to provide a welcome use case for Ethereum, but they will not become real rollups and thus are no longer the primary story for Ethereum (or even close to it)
appchains, enterprise chains, etc. CEXchains, etc. have a very bright future--for themselves, their users, and their investors, and Ethereum will likely continue to perform a modest 'notarization service' role to many of them while (because they don't hit stage 2) never being their definitive 'settlement layer' or ultimate protocol enforcement authority ; hell, even cringey Canton says something in their docs about potentially using Ethereum as a notarization layer to reduce trust in their domain nodes
but:
-->providing a notarization service role to appchains is not a necessary or sufficient thesis or userbase for Ethereum/ETH
-->the systems that need this notarization service are not cryptoeconomically secure but rather are socioeconomically secure--in a way, they very much fulfill my 'BORG' vision of code/law hybrids as they use a mix of software mechanisms and legal mechanisms (like highly legally structured security 'councils') to achieve 'security'/trust reduction/social scaling--that's all fine (I am open to many trust models and think these models are great for bringing enterprise onchain) but Ethereum has always been about cryptoeconomic security and real decentralization/autonomy;
-->after Vitalik's infamous L2 post & in light of the fact that most L2s permanently plan to remain sidechains making modest notarial use of Ethereum, they will stop marketing themselves as "L2s" and "rollups" and come up with some new name like 'agileChains' or something, in many cases their users will not even know they have anything to do with Ethereum
-->the zk-scaling vision, buttressed by new explicit anti-censorship mechanisms like FOCIL, is a more exciting scaling strategy for Ethereum
so,...Ethereum being a notary service to Robinhood AgileChain and MegaETH is great and all but it ain't gonna pump ETH or even sustain current price in itself, even if ETH is used as a gas token in them (which there are many disincentives to)...the days of .eth's desperately clinging to things like 'Robinhood announced an L2' to drive a narrative for Ethereum/ETH are over. . . .
imo, Ethereans need to fully embrace vitalik's milady-spirited leadership and contrarian vision of an ultra cypherpunk chain that is one of the last communities to still believe in web3-ish/read-write-own type vision, embrace the zk-scaling story (even though there is a lot of work still to do on it), and find ways to expand that TAM...go full cypherpunk/cyberpunk, focus less on "institutions" that will all be rolling their own semi-permissioned and censorable sidechains at best...
right now, agentic economy is the best bet for doing that, though of course we will have competitors on it (Solana already featuring polished clawd type apps)...the Ethereum community has to build really cool AI shit that leverages ethereum to give these AIs true 'autonomy', mitigates legal liability from that for devs (I prototyped one approach with GAIB (metalex.substack.com/p/hello…)), and is fun af to use and speculate on