Adam Kazwell

Product guy, helping to build @cueyofficial. Collecting evergreen insights @productweets.

Coffee, podcast or trail recs always welcome ✌️

[Adam Kazwell @kaz]

@dshan but...I liked (and was good at) diggin around the internet 😭

[Adam Kazwell @kaz]

First FSD took over the highways. Now agents are taking over the information superhighway.

[D @dshan]

To me bots/agents/scripts web traffic surpassing human traffic this year is natural in the digital age

Humans shouldn't even be typing, much less diggin around the internet

We'll have agents handle the web, and leave us to navigate the real world

[Adam Kazwell @kaz]

Slack set the bar for quality in enterprise products and yet this is how Stewart felt about it:

"I feel like what we have right now is just a giant piece of shit. It's just terrible and we should be humiliated that we offer this to the public."

[Waqas @vixsheikh]

A bit older episode - but this interview of @stewart is a really fun listen, esp. if you’re a geek for product craft.

You can see from the interview how Slack managed to imbue consumer-like thinking into a B2B product space that was considered so incredibly commoditized at the time.

There are many parts of this that stood out to me. But in particular, the way Stewart talked about “utility curves”, and why internalizing product maturity curves in our strategic decision-making really resonated.

Good stuff.

[Jip @jipvandervelde]

grug is probably the first Apple Design Award winner built by two designers using Codex to write the code.

We didn't prompt "build me an award-winning app, make no mistakes.” It did not wake up one morning and decide the world needed grug. We did. We wanted to build it and AI was the tool that helped us take it all the way there.

Ever since we started building with AI a few years ago, we got bolder. You stop killing ideas just because they sound too hard to build. You get weirder when trying things becomes cheap enough to be silly again. You start following the strange little thought further than you normally would.

That is how grug happened.

AI can write your code. It can help you move fast. It can make impossible things feel possible.

But it cannot care. It cannot make your app memorable. It cannot make your app feel like it has a soul.

You have to bring the taste. You have to stay incredibly close. You have to take small steps, make thousands of tiny decisions, throw away good-enough work to get to your best work, and protect the thing that made the idea worth building in the first place.

grug would not have been this memorable if we didn't have Codex to go all-in on all the crazy ideas we had. If we had not decided to make the whole thing hand-drawn. If we had not spent days and nights obsessing over every detail, every animation, every interaction, every tiny bit of weirdness.

That is the difference between slop and something with a soul.

And I think that is why this award means so much to us. Not because what we were able to do using AI to build grug, but because Apple recognized the care we put inside all the weirdness.

For the past 15 years, so many of our ideas stopped at the mockup. They were too weird, too small, too hard to explain, too expensive to build, too unlikely to survive a meeting. Now designers like us can build the fun little things. Designers like us can ship the crazy ideas. Designers like us can make unreasonable little things and see if the world cares.

There are plenty of people who do not get grug. That is totally fine.

We do not try to build for everyone, because when you do you end up building for no-one. The people who get grug really get it. And if it makes their morning feel a little lighter, that is all that matters to us.

Make the weird thing. The right people will find it.

grug no wait for permission.

grug back sun rise.

[Yan-David (Yanda) Erlich @yanda]

The more capable AI gets, the more expensive it becomes to not know what you want.

[Adam Kazwell @kaz]

@benspringwater @natellewellyn does it still work without social commitments? If so, count me in!

[Adam Kazwell @kaz]

@danshipper @mcolyer @every > made me wish I'd bought more

don't worry, you still can...and good news, it's on sale!

[Adam Kazwell @kaz]

@hnshah @SamAsante clicking "buy now" ;)

[Adam Kazwell @kaz]

@nickkokonas oh well....figured it was worth a quick shot....bad job Codex ;)

[Adam Kazwell @kaz]

@peter nice! had just come across https://t.co/j0nuXqwMpv yesterday...I like the ability to "ask about this transcript" instead of only being able to do a keyword search.

[Nathan Manousos @trafnar]

which voice transcription app has the smallest delay between pressing a button to activate it, and being able to speak?

[Adam Kazwell @kaz]

@lennysan @benedictevans (and I'm a fan of AI! 😂 I use it hourly and aspire to use it more)

As Benny says: "presume radical uncertainty"

[Adam Kazwell @kaz]

@lennysan @benedictevans "The years in front of us will be impossibly hard, asking more of us than we think we can give."

like...have we truly sat with that statement? it's not just "what are you teaching your kids to study if CS is no longer a good major."

via: https://t.co/femo7cRrXZ

[Adam Kazwell @kaz]

I'd bet something like this gets launched in the next 3-6 months.

[Adam Kazwell @kaz]

@jackiebo what new PM skills are emerging, or existing skills are becoming more valuable as we shift to an AI-native product development process?

[Andy Allen @asallen]

https://t.co/tohgcEW65J

[Adam Kazwell @kaz]

@TrungTPhan 9 more months of letting the good times roll!