Chris Dhanaraj

Oh I just took it for - pre-death of JavaScript Twitter, people used to complain that they had to keep track of Twitter to stay up-to-date on industry news / web shenanigans. Now, it's really hard to keep track of where anything is (fractured through ten thousand Discord servers I guess)

Leveraging it for editing and tone suggestions? Fantastic. Creating prototypes or visual assets to better communicate your ideas? Even better.

But the core part of your work (e.g., the idea itself and the rationale of why it's important) you should be drafting yourself.

This isn't to say don't use AI in your jobs - for sure you should. But also, you know, be aware that leveraging AI to *do* your job is actively making you worse at your job (see: that one MIT article about writing / reading comprehension).

(Also hello again BlueSky, maybe I'll start being a PM thought leader or some garbage like that)

Because lets be real, your team knows you wrote that PRD with AI, and every word in there that doesn't communicate what you *actually* meant is another piece of proof that you (the PM) don't know what you're doing and should be ignored

Conceptually this is true for the written word as well but it's *so obvious* when you write with AI, at least for now. One of the primary currencies you have as a PM is trust with your team, and it's fascinating to just watch folks trade it away for some short-term time savings.

My less than hot take is that there's a pretty significant difference between engineers using AI to write code and PM's using AI to write PRDs. A user of an application at the end of the day has no idea of the code behind an app, just the quality of the application.

Attempted to buy a Fujifilm XT-5 from Amazon, got sent a literal box with a rock inside of it instead and now am having to repeatedly explain to Amazon that… I cannot return the time because all I have is a box with a rock.

Found this post a few years later and wanted to say - Seafall remains one of my favorite games of all time. It was the first time I had friends come together and just get completely immersed into something.

No regrets here! I’m playing it 8 years later and I’m curious about all the feels

I love Arc, but… man that battery drain is untenable :( all I really want from browsers is the URL copy shortcut and the left-hand sidebar

But also seriously, live tennis is such a different experience. It was amazing to hear the crowd all get entirely enamored with Watanuki's playstyle together

If Watanuki has a million fans, I am one of them. If Watanuki has ten fans, I am one of them. If Watanuki has only one fan, that one is me. If Watanuki has no fans, I am no longer on this earth. #indianwells

This has been the most exhausting last three weeks of work in a while - my brain is tired and my body is ready for a week of naps.

I did write a lot of great design system memos though, so there's that

If ESPN could stop airing Wolf Man trailers during the Australian Open, that would be great thanks

Someone tell me why ATL is consistently the worst airport

It's delightful, but now I have so many more questions!

Okay but now what do I do until Stormlight book six??? (just finished five)

They've figured it out

I don’t hate this, except the roboto-mono. Swapped it to San Francisco and this is lovely

Re: burnout - I know you've all heard this before, but oh wow is it important to implement *some* kind of physical practice into your life. Near daily tennis has done wonders on keeping me mentally grounded when work is stressful

My burnout is immeasurable and I am ready to go turn off my brain for a few weeks. Two weeeeks left

Oh no

Obligatorily Thanksgiving plate, powered by Serious Eats.

Also mashed potatoes prep is made SO easy with the Anyday dishes, highly recommend

I know when I play poorly against pushers in tennis the problem is actually me, but god DAMN is it infuriating

This is already happening at some levels - I've gotten asked by eng leadership multiple times in the last two months around where AI fits into our roadmaps. And this is at the developer productivity angle, versus product where they're even further ahead on this

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Spent a solid two to three hours trying to ChatGPT / Reddit a Notion formula question before just reading the docs and figuring it out in fifteen minutes. A big ole whoops from me (the AIs haven't come for me yet!)

We’re not actually going to have enough people to hit real scaling limits, and it’s a good reminder you don’t always need the most advanced tech to get something done for a problem

We’re leveraging Notion as a CRM + Database for this tennis community app I’m building and… its honestly been delightful. One of the requirements was that manual entry had to be easy to do for a non-technical person, and working with Notion API has been pretty straight-forward.