John Billington

Innovative Product Manager | crafting product @SpotOnFence with GPS-enabled IoT dog collars | Formerly @iRobot, @Ubisoft, @Atari | Founder

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@tibo_maker same playbook from 10 years ago

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@buildwithfur @dremnik It’s also true that open source has killed and destroyed many companies for many decades. It’s highly deflationary and commoditizing.

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@dremnik Do you have a list of these? I’m working on Clean My Mac.

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@dremnik I agree although would love it if you espoused on this topic. Creativity may be the key to all success.

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@HistorianUSA1 Fuck this guy. Biking rulez

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@GBillington7 This is so useful! Great idea and well executed Graham.

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@levie Most product managers can do this today in Cowork or Claude code. Seems basic

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@tanayj @AlphaSenseInc @barronsonline There needs to be slop watch website that tracks this horrible trend and the others.

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this is one of my big pet peeves: Just describe what it is people! All my AI agents and projects now have this as one of the patterns to never use. I see this so much in writing now it's really irritating.

[Tanay Jaipuria @tanayj]

The growth of AI Slop in corporate comms

(via @AlphaSenseInc and @barronsonline)

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@NHarding97 @AnthropicAI this! I miss xp

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@anvisha Do you have API For business use? DM me

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@danshipper @every I launched a product called Proof many years ago @litmusapp - great name though!

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@AndrewYNg Hehe…. He said chub…

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@renatonitta What did you build With it?

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For the same reasons it’s also a great time to be a Product manager who understands how software is developed. It’s so easy to build for yourself and express ideas.

[Aaron Levie @levie]

It’s clear that AI agents are going to get better and better at coding. We’re going to be able to give them much bigger tasks, and reviewing that work will get easier and easier over time (both due to reliability, and the systems surrounding the agent).

But your ultimate constraint will be how well you can figure out what to tell the agent to do, how to know when it’s going off the rails, how to tell it what to do after it does, how to jump in and fix or review its work, and ultimately how to incorporate and run whatever it built.

All of this still takes immense skill, and there are no signs this is going away anytime soon. It’s easily the best time ever to be an engineer because a lot of the boring parts of the job are evaporating quickly, and your leverage is only increasing.

If anything the value of being good at computer science and software engineering goes up over time given the leverage you now have.

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@johnrush Buy some servers from Dell and get a rack at a hosting provider

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@eddsmitty Insane

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@SpencerHakimian Disgusting

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@sofiakzahra Cool! I’m interested

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@riyazmd774 This is depressing