Okthalia Adam

Technology Strategist.

[Okthalia Adam @adokthalia]

You gotta find your people then you find yourself

[Yash Bhardwaj @ybhrdwj]

I turned sam altman's texts to mira murati into 2011 style emo teenage heathrob anthem🫶

[raihan aulia @raihanaulia_rar]

"Bandung gak cocok moda transportasi ABCDEFGH karena di gunung"

Chongqing: skill issue

[Ryan Gilbert @rjgilbert]

Hired an intern

[le.hl @0xleegenz]

People who moved abroad alone in their 20s, handled all docs, bank account, visa, tax, jobs, accomadation, and culture difference

These people fear nothing anymore

[Okthalia Adam @adokthalia]

Coming home to JVKE, Sia, Noah Kahan, Anika, Excited to be back!

[Mustafa @oprydai]

i often think about this..

[Pradithya Aria Pura @pradithya_aria]

Gw mau cerita soal salah satu project paling wild yang pernah gue kerjain: Feast, open-source feature store yang lahir dari kebutuhan nyata di Gojek. 🧵

[The Kerupuk @TheKerupuk]

Warung Padang "Sederhana" valued at $2.1 billion after Series A led by SoftBank.

Masayoshi Son: "I have never seen margins like this."

[Okthalia Adam @adokthalia]

I refuse to give in to the premise that finding someone who can only accept and tolerate you for who you are is all you can get in this society. Finding someone who sees your lights, not just tolerates them but truly loves them and shares in them, is not too much to ask.

[Okthalia Adam @adokthalia]

To have a life where you spend summer in California, fall in Chicago, and spring in Boston and New York.

[andrew chen @andrewchen]

Today the job of the PM is the define the product, how it works, and how it’ll get built

But we won’t need that soon

The future job will be simple to define the goals, the constraints, and long term strategy - and letting the AI figure the rest out

Goal Architect, not product manager

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

I’d argue almost the opposite.

The most valuable PMs in 2026 are moving down the abstraction ladder. Building prototypes. Shipping working code. Testing with real users before writing a single PRD.

Google, Stripe, and Netflix added vibe coding rounds to PM interviews. They’re testing whether you can turn a product idea into a working prototype in 15 minutes.

Microsoft’s Work Trend Index found that 71% of leaders would rather hire a less experienced candidate with strong AI building skills than a senior PM without them. The premium is on execution speed.

“Define goals, constraints, and long-term strategy” describes every mediocre VP of Product who’s ever existed. That was always the easy part. The hard part was building, which is why PMs who couldn’t build were dependent on engineering capacity.

Now that AI collapses the build cycle, the winning move is to close the gap between “what to build” and “building it.” The PMs gaining the most leverage right now prototype on Monday, test on Tuesday, and ship on Wednesday. They skip the 30-page strategy doc entirely.

Reforge calls it “the rise of the builder PM.” 54% of engineering leaders expect to reduce junior engineer hiring because PMs and designers can now build directly. The walls between PM, design, and engineering are collapsing into one person.

“Goal Architect” sounds like a promotion. In practice, it’s a layoff memo. The PMs who survive the next two years will be the ones who can show a working prototype, not a strategy deck.

[Bagus Muljadi @bagus_muljadi]

banyak sekali miskonsepsi akan alumni LPDP, seakan akan lulusan S2 atau bahkan S3 UK/US/ manapun itu manusia sakti yang bisa berkontribusi “langsung” kepada bangsa.

Dalam dunia akademik, overwhelming majority of lulusan PhD itu hanyalah seorang bayi yang masih menyusu; belum pernah membuktikan diri sebagai periset independen. They are nobody without the incubator. “Pulanglah, berbakti bangun negeri” - by doing what exactly?? An experimental physicist cant work without a synchrotron; NMR etc.

Perlu dimengerti bahwa standard global research is extremely high; Indonesian institutions must compete with groups that have multiple postdoctoral experiences from all around the world. Most Indonesian researchers even in ITB/UI/UGM never even secured a postdoc positions! they came back straightaway after PhD!

Mereka adalah korban romantisasi kebijakan dan narasi emosional; seakan akan negara itu seorang Ibu yang sekarat menjual seluruh hartanya untuk membiayai anak yang durhaka.

this “Ratu Adil” syndrome/narrative membuat kita benci akan sesama, curiga akan mereka yang mendapat kesempatan untuk mengkultivasi dirinya.

Sejak kapan kita menjadi bangsa yang penuh dendam akan sesama?

To those who get the opportunity to be sent abroad - help if you can; or otherwise, SHUT UP! - you’re nobody yet.

[Okthalia Adam @adokthalia]

Tag people you would personally trust with production systems.

🇮🇩Indonesia only.
One name is enough. The right names matter.

[Okthalia Adam @adokthalia]

Indonesia Tech Twitter, Do you magic.

I need help identifying three exceptional technical leaders in Indonesia.

If you truly know someone at this level, please comment or DM their name (or tag them):

Lead Systems Architect, DevOps & Site Reliability, Security & QA Lead.

[Chamath Palihapitiya @chamath]

We've talked a lot about this on the Pod, but the Great SaaS Meltdown has started and there's no going back.

What exactly is happening?

In short, hi growth, low/no profitability SaaS is no longer a winning strategy because the big question mark is the durability of that growth in the short term and, because of AI, the lack of profits in the long term. Every SaaS company has sold the dream (to investors and employees) that they will growth quickly now, and harvest lots of cash later. With AI, this assumption may be completely out the window.

Now the threshold question is whether their growth will be overtaken by a much cheaper AI-developed solution?

If you are a venture supported SaaS startup and are a legacy Heuristics+APIs+CRUD product, it is likely that a new AI oriented workflow is coming for you.

Investors in private markets can see this now and think that money to fund short term growth will not be rewarded. Investors in public markets no longer believe long term profitability is possible. They would rather pivot into something they think is more resilient.

This is a change in the risk calculus that has existed for the past 15 years and why the chart below is the chart below.

Good luck to all the players!

[Okthalia Adam @adokthalia]

Oh, I hate poorly designed KPIs. Especially when they low-key imply that looking busy is more important than efficiency.

[Karri Saarinen @karrisaarinen]

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