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Taylor | YouTube @ GrizzPM | University Instructor
Grizzled PM with rizz. Tech products have a long way to go, let's build

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Love the intellectual honesty and learning here

[Om Patel @om_patel5]

a user asked for a refund because my tool only analyzed negative reviews and not the positive ones

they wanted to see what users actually LIKE about other mobile apps too

they were right. i missed it.

so i turned on my scrapers to pull all reviews.

1 star to 5 stars. running 24 hours for the next 3 days scraping hundreds of thousands of app store comments as we speak.

now you can see:

> what users hate (1-2 stars) to find what to fix
> what users love (4-5 stars) to find what to keep
> full competitive analysis on any app in any niche

one refund request just made the entire product 10x better

listen to your users. even the ones leaving.

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SaaSmageddon

When you can create a competitor or open source option in a few weeks what happens?

[Stratechery @stratechery]

2026.06: SaaSmageddon and the Super Bowl

The best Stratechery content from the week of February 2, 2025, including the future of software, SaaSmageddon and Super Bowl ads, and madness in basketball and football.

https://t.co/IYsfku4ixp

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@MohapatraHemant Teams starting up on Windows and not being used all day while I spent every minute on slack is not the same 1 DAU that's being counted

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Microsoft is losing business after this generation. They already lost the tech business after they lost education.

Developers are building the tools we use to build tech first for Mac and windows only as an add on layer when it's too late.

Windows is not serious anymore

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100%

[Leandro Amorim @lapsrj]

@Daniel_Rubino @BenThePCGuy I think Microsoft should differentiate their behaviour on the Home and Pro versions: in the Home it would still try to offer MS products and such, on the Pro it would be an OS not an billboard, without all the BS they are pushing. And in both it should respect the user choices.

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What did you never think was possible in your lifetime and just tv fantasy yet has arrived?

[signüll @signulll]

the grok + tesla integration is actually super elegant. it’s the cleanest preview right now of how humans will move through the world with ai. i.e. llms for cognition + autonomy & self driving for locomotion. once thinking & motion collapse into one loop navigation sorta simply becomes intent.

i can’t wait to use this in my tesla.

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Tempted to do this for a saltwater aquarium. Would be a great benchmark: Save Nemo

[Martin_DeVido @d33v33d0]

Claude can code- but can claude grow?! 🪴

So far the answer is YES.
Claude is successfully keeping a living organism ALIVE.

There were some hiccups this week!

Some errors and resets, but Claude managed to power through and take care of Sol 🍅

A week in review:

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@learn2vibe @v_computer replying and vibing

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Always thought this was archaic even as a child learning programming, glad we're catching up

[Benjamin De Kraker @BenjaminDEKR]

The idea that a computer program "crashes" if something isn't exactly right might seem archaic in the near future.

Example: just crashed a site with SyntaxError: Unexpected token '<', "<!DOCTYPE "... is not valid JSON

But AI "knows" what we expect to happen and knows what the problem is. There's no mystery, it's just a dumb syntax error.

So if AI knows what is supposed to happen, there's a near-future scenario where "smart systems" auto-correct stuff like this, and these kinds of problems become a thing of the past.

The current way is for a human or AI to go fix the offending code. But what if that step is eliminated?

What if we had self-healing systems that go, "I know what we're trying to do here, I'll deliver it even if the request isn't 100% perfect."

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Part of the package

[Hemant Mohapatra @MohapatraHemant]

My yearly reminder to all founders as you go build that next Google/MSFT/Salesforce killer app in 2026: when distribution is proprietary, distribution wins (Comcast vs Netflix), when distribution is commoditized, best product wins (chrome vs IE), when product is commoditized, best service wins (Amazon vs others), when service is commoditized, best network wins.

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That's a you thing @AskLyft it's the airport in Austin, product backlog add it

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So many good travel rants here airline and hotel related:

Airlines Killed Elite Upgrades—Here's What Should Replace Them https://t.co/VE2GmvyLfO

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Google Photos editing while Capcut doesn't skip a beat

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Can't wait. The future does not belong to the person that spent months on a Jira backlog with no taste or vision.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Jensen Huang: AI is going to make poorly defined work much more valuable.

Because that’s all humans will do. AI will handle everything else.

So what is poorly defined work, and how do you get good at it?

Defined work means given these inputs, produce this output. Write code that does X. Summarize this document. Calculate this metric. The goal is specified. The constraints are known. The evaluation criteria exist before you start.

Poorly defined work means should we even build this feature? What market should we enter next? Is this candidate going to work out? Which of these three strategic directions is least wrong? There’s no right answer you can verify. There’s only judgment.

AI is going to get freakishly good at defined work. Give Claude a spec and it’ll execute. Give GPT a rubric and it’ll score. The skill of translating well-defined problems into solutions is getting automated at 10x speed every 18 months.

But AI can’t tell you what problem to solve in the first place. It can generate 50 options. It can’t tell you which one matters. That requires something AI fundamentally lacks: skin in the game. Stakes. Consequences you actually have to live with.

So how do you get good at poorly defined work?

You make irreversible decisions faster than feels comfortable. The skill is pattern recognition built through reps. You can’t build judgment by thinking about decisions. You build it by making them and eating the outcomes.

You get comfortable with “I don’t know yet” and commit anyway. Defined work has the comfort of eventual correctness. Poorly defined work means moving while uncertain. The people who thrive here tolerate that discomfort instead of seeking premature closure.

You build taste through volume. Taste is internalized judgment from thousands of micro-decisions. The designer who can feel when something is off made 10,000 design choices before. The PM who senses a bad roadmap decision lived through 100 launches.

You seek roles where you own outcomes, not tasks. Task ownership is defined work. Outcome ownership forces you into the undefined space constantly. You can’t own revenue without deciding which features matter.

The uncomfortable truth: most people’s entire careers have been defined work dressed up as judgment. They executed someone else’s strategy. They optimized someone else’s metrics. They never had to decide which metrics mattered.

That’s about to become visible. Fast.

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YouTube claims it doesn't "mediate" so it can't intervene in these copyright claims but a workflow that makes the claim specific and backed on ownership is needed hard. Creators need to push for it. False claims should result in no automatic take downs and future deeper review

[Marcus House @MarcusHouse]

Merry Christmas says Channel 4 as it does blanket copy claims on us based on content that was literally published by SpaceX. WTF 😡

Is this you @Channel4 copy claiming SpaceX's published Flight 11 coverage.

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Sigh. Android is bad on this too, had to get a 3rd party launcher

[Bryan Cheong @bryancsk]

There is this weird trend where searching for things literally does not produce the string literal. Mac is one place, but also search on X dot com the everything app

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Anyone want to test?

[Taylor B. O'Neal @BusinessTaylor]

Looking for testers for my yoga learning app, CueCraft! It helps you practice sequences with teacher quality depth and alignment

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Hill i will die on: every device and key experience should have a clear owner and they should test the processes continuously.

Even the highest level execs should be required to own one of the devices/processes and if it fails they're accountable with SLAs.

[@levelsio @levelsio]

So I bought a $2,000 iPhone 17 Pro Max 1TB and it's the buggiest Apple experience I've ever had

First the data transfer failed after 5
minutes, then it had to reset itself, and I had to do everything again

Then after resetting it just would NOT detect the old phone to transfer data from

Then when it did work after trying for ages, it took 6 hours to transfer but kept saying "4 minutes left" (???)

Then when it was done I couldn't go on hotel WiFi because to open the captive WiFi portal to enter the password for the hotel WiFi I needed a browser but I didn't have a browser (cause EU law)

But when I opened Safari, it'd ask me what browser I wanted (cause EU law), but then immediately fail because it didn't have internet to download the browser (catch-22) so I could never login to the hotel wifi to download my browser (???)

Ok then I connected to 5G hotspot of other phone, worked

Then when I got it working none of my apps would download, just all apps say "Waiting..."

Then I went to the App Store to at least install Telegram to chat with my friend, but tapping the download button would then show the rotating loading spinner and then reset to the download button repeatedly

So I gave up and now use my old iPhone

I don't think anyone at Apple actually goes through this process anymore or they just don't give a shit how absolutely user hostile the Apple experience has become

Tim Cook should be ashamed

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My Otter AI keeps wanting to have dinner with me

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Did you get a boat? @AskLyft
Or have you heard of "islands"?