Fortune Op-Ed: Uber and Discord Co-Builder Says Silicon Valley Is Losing the AI Race to Itself

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Sumeet Vaidya, CEO of Crafting (early engineering leader at Meta, Uber, Discord), argues in a Fortune op-ed that Silicon Valley's AI race is hampered by its own infrastructure problems — agents need real, complex multi-service environments to operate effectively but most teams lack the tooling. Crafting (which raised a $5.5M seed) provides sandboxed cloud environments for AI agents, with early customers including Faire, Brex, and Webflow.