Max

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[Max @_maxantonov]

In the AI era, winners emerge: principal engineers, senior PMs, staff designers, data/product strategists and operators who discover and drive work independently.

Losers are managers whose value lies in translating strategy into execution.

[Max @_maxantonov]

As AI makes smaller teams more powerful, the companies that keep promoting people for headcount will quietly reward the wrong kind of ambition.

[Max @_maxantonov]

@nathanclark_ Yep, same. I have my setup in Cowork: weekly training plan plus results and times.
Every Sunday, Claude reviews and adjusts the plan based on the week’s performance.

[Max @_maxantonov]

I used to save everything.

Articles.
Podcasts.
Frameworks.
Etc.

At some point, I realised I had built a very organised archive of things I rarely returned to and could barely remember.

Now I'm experimenting with a different system:

Turning useful ideas or interesting anecdotes into questions and using spaced repetition to bring them back before they disappear.

[Max @_maxantonov]

It's not hard to imagine this will be replicated by thousands, hundreds of thousands of people.

The slop is filling out every platform but it's harder to identify the slop. Arguably the slop (more content) is good for platforms as it boosts their core product metrics.

So what's coming to us after? The platforms win the metric war and lose the culture war. DAUs (fake, boosted by bots) up but trust gone.

And the thing that replaces them will be a backyard, a pub, a community hall.

[Mau Baron @maubaron]

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[Max @_maxantonov]

@staysaasy Even worse when it's the CEO.

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@Shpigford Mute lists should be shareable / easy to copy @nikitabier

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@forgebitz This is a bit useless tbh.

[Max @_maxantonov]

The loudest diagnostician and the person who fixes the thing are rarely the same person.

[Max @_maxantonov]

@YIMBYLAND Wait, you don't want tiktok?

[Max @_maxantonov]

@EXM7777 What's next? CapCutX?

[Max @_maxantonov]

Solopreneurship is just a permanent cure for the bystander effect.

Every emergency is immediately assigned to the nearest available person...

...which is also you.

[Max @_maxantonov]

@nikitabier Is Android on a different tech stack? What's the split of active and paying users Apple vs Android?

[Max @_maxantonov]

Every "quick win" creates a future maintenance cost.

[Max @_maxantonov]

@plainionist With AI. Can't be bothered spending time on boring but time consuming crap

[Max @_maxantonov]

@Gavel_on_X Your own memory

[Max @_maxantonov]

The longer you've been somewhere, the easier it is to forget what it's like to be new.

Senior leaders underestimate confusion because they've forgotten how much context they've accumulated.

[Max @_maxantonov]

@ThePeterMick Same with articles

[Max @_maxantonov]

@denicmarko Building an adventure game. Hard but addictive.