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I’m a lifer in it
Genuinely loves tech but also skeptical of it
Less about hitting milestones and more about belief in the team
We’re trading scale and speed for freedom.
The problem with gen AI is that it’s contextless by default. Give it my references, my taste, my point of view.
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Adrian Cheung
@adrianc
For leaders:
- Hire curious generalists , not specialists.
- Track speed of feature development: ensure that it’s going up.
- Reward doers over sayers : look for the proof in the problem solved, not in the discussion had
The Death of Product Development as We Know it
... See moreIn practice, what users want from IT products are functionality, resiliency, and usability. But software engineers (especially at places like Google and Facebook, which selectively hire and sell themselves as places for cool smart people to work at) want to think of themselves as smart and creative. So instead of spending massive amounts of time di
The most compelling argument4 comes from Marty Cagan, who says: Instead of using one prototyper for a few weeks, [most organizations] use the full engineering team for full release cycles to build the software that is then QA’ed and deployed into production systems. This is why it typically takes so many companies three or more releases over one to
... See moreRian van der Merwe • Making It Right: Product Management For A Startup World
Adrian Westaway - Special Projects
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