mike

just another product manager

[mike @howitdobe]

I’m starting to question the long term need for @figma. Looking at our use, it has drastically decreased the last 6 months. Seems like our designers prefer to just build the thing rather than convey an idea thru Figma; there’s just no time for that anymore.

[mike @howitdobe]

Every open of Apple Intelligence on my iPhone is accidental. I’ve never found the slightest use for it. What an utter failure it is.

[mike @howitdobe]

@artman That’s our biggest hurdle with Linear atm tbh, the rest of the org doesn’t have good insight into product unless we start buying them all licenses to have access or build a custom dashboard with data from Linear. Or possibly there’s something we’re just not getting.

[mike @howitdobe]

@adjohu @linear Have you guys written anything about how you implemented your dev tools and learnings from it? Considering doing that for our app as well, seems like a nice direction.

[mike @howitdobe]

@itsanotherjon @levelsio AI reply

[mike @howitdobe]

@levelsio It’s an important status symbol for people who have a need for that. Doubt it’ll go away.

Also I think Jason is still pretty far from being a billionaire (a few hundred mill iirc)

[mike @howitdobe]

@tunguz This take doesn’t rly make sense imo. The cost of intelligence keeps decreasing at an insane rate. o1 was very expensive. Now comparable models are very cheap. Labs also have an insane incentive to subsidize use while they work towards AGI.

[mike @howitdobe]

I really want to love Claude Dispatch, but it’s so confusing to use. No clue what it’s working on, the status of it, etc.

[mike @howitdobe]

Its sad how reading comments on posts is now useless because 95% are pure AI slop. Also interesting how basic pattern recognition makes it easy to spot even when they try to system prompt it into not being obvious.

[mike @howitdobe]

@elonmusk Honestly too little too late.. why don’t you aim for the next obvious step rather than chasing Claude code and codex? Build the factory.

[mike @howitdobe]

@xai I don’t get why Elon is just chasing the other players, and not building the next obvious orchestrator/factory stage. Old Elon would have seen it and done it. Factory + insane usage limits would see huge growth

[mike @howitdobe]

@solo21jordan @lydiahallie I’m spending way more than the $200 sub on API usage in addition. My point is that the $200 sub gives you back the full cost in API credits plus gives you a 25x subsidized usage of their harness. And you’re all still complaining they’re not giving you enough.

[mike @howitdobe]

If any SaaS your business relies on gets bought up by PE, start looking for a replacement ASAP

[mike @howitdobe]

@anetdotdigital @trq212 I had to switch to Claude desktop version to get the chrome extension to work reliably. Spent a day troubleshooting it in terminal until I just gave up.

[mike @howitdobe]

Yo @nikitabier the onboarding flow on x is subpar. SMS never arrives, copying the mail OTP from the clipboard fails so need to type it manually. on the view of adding accs to follow, if you scroll down to load more it just reloads the same ones. feels sloppy.

[mike @howitdobe]

what happened with all the hype of replacing support departments with AI? coding is all the hype now, but Claude Agent to solve tickets and Elevenlabs to handle first line incoming calls could now easily reduce the load by 80%

[mike @howitdobe]

people buying Mac Minis to run an AI agent really shows you just how dumb most of them are. a good signal for anyone with imposter syndrome lol

[mike @howitdobe]

a skill that doesn’t seem easily replaceable by AI is product taste. it surprises me how many devs have completely trash product taste. it’s a blocker for most.

[mike @howitdobe]

one of the biggest blockers for an org to take advantage of AI is the fact 80% of devs hate AI. the winners will be the ones who can inspire their teams to fully adopt it the fastest.