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For the avoidance of doubt, this is how the inventor of "vibe coding" actually writes code.

Can we all stop pretending now?

My first thought was that this is satire.

My second thought was also that this is satire.

My third thought: I guess someone has a product vision for “Ubiquitous Teams” and they are following it blindly?

Worse product decisions have been made that way TBH.

Coming in November: fireside chat with Deb Liu, former CEO of ancestry.com, product executive at Facebook and PayPal, and co-founder of Women in Product.

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Friend talking about her teenage daughter: "I would rather she make small mistakes now than big mistakes later."

Sums up some of the ideas behind agile.

And I was unhappy with Merino on when we trailed by a goal. Happy to be wrong on that!

Why shouldn’t he? The referees have allowed it.

Not for the first time either.

Not even if you are a 10x engineer?

Executives only ask three questions about your opportunity:

- Is it big enough to matter?

- How is it different from today’s business?

- Why now, not later?

If you don’t prep for these, your idea never makes it past “interesting.”

Good point. It had previously improved rapidly. Hard to know if GPT-5 is just a bad release or a sign that we are reaching limits. Which could mean the hype cycle ends.

BTW Altman is a very biased messenger so I pay little attention to what he says.

For many, the push to adopt AI seems to be a defensive measure: nobody will fault them for trying, but they will get blamed if a competitor finds a disruptive application first.

Still it usually a solution in search of matching problems. Rapidly improving but reality hasn’t caught up to hype.

“The layoffs will continue until people stop expressing fear of layoffs.”

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Their setup was similar how we played at City last year, except we did it with 10 men.

We could have been more assertive but on balance the team with 67% possession should not be the one criticized for being too conservative.

Make a band singular:

Print

The heat map will show fire everywhere.

Which is funny since many of the players now tear their socks before they put them on.

I miss the days when the Silicon Valley was filled with idealism and trying to make the world a better place — not just for the shareholders.

What if AI amounts to just a 10x search engine?

It is still powerful and useful, just with more limited use cases than the hype.

Increasingly I am finding that the value is very situational: compile data, quick review, repeatable task or if quantity matters more than quality. Google 2.0.

WDYT?

Some of the best product solutions come from observing what your customers are doing despite not being officially enabled.

eBay Motors, its 1st $1B category, came from this observation after Simon Rothman saw a car listed for sale. Before it was assumed to be a crazy idea.

Love this @bsky.app!

enshittification | noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits

“Legacy” and “1.0” are also sometimes useful terms.

Reposting including with one I have: go.bsky.app/AYJR3Gm

Loop vs List: Why Most Strategies Die in Delivery Why most strategies suffocate in delivery, and how to keep them alive

Most strategies don’t die in the boardroom.
They die in Jira.

Lists coordinate. Loops adapt.

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Disappointing at how many product thought leaders seem not to be on Bluesky, including many who remain active on X.

1. Encourage people to post here, instead of -- or at least in addition to -- X.
2. As people move over & for any I've missed, please let me know so I can add to the starter pack.

Perfect plans don’t survive first contact with reality.

But lightweight, adaptive plans do. Mark progress. Set experiments. Then adjust fast. Your anchor is always what customers are already doing with the product. Stop defending the “right plan.” Start iterating on the next useful one.