Joao Botto

Co-piloting at Microsoft 365. Previous product roles: @cloudflare, @facebook, @tesla, @surface

[Joao Botto @jsbotto]

@karrisaarinen @kevinyien @thenanyu I really like this framing

[Joao Botto @jsbotto]

@bcherny @garrytan Incredible!

[Joao Botto @jsbotto]

well, I really need this!

[Karri Saarinen @karrisaarinen]

the best feature @linear ever created

[Aaron Levie @levie]

So far all the signs appear to be that people who are good at their field or craft are able to take advantage of AI the most.

Those who can write the precise specs for a coding agent to go off and do work, or craft the clearest prompts for various knowledge worker tasks, are getting the most leverage from AI today.

And in fact, many of my friends who have been programming for decades will say this is the most fun they’ve had in years. The productivity unlock is completely wild.

There's no evidence that this will ever change course. Which means that, like any other digital advancement that we've experienced, those that have the baseline (or better) skills to utilize the technology get the biggest gains.

This is why it’s way too early to make claims about what kind of jobs won’t be as in demand in the future.

[Buitengebieden @buitengebieden]

The best thing you’ll see today.. 😂

[scott belsky @scottbelsky]

whatever you do next, aspire to do something that doesn’t make sense to most at the moment.

[Garry Tan @garrytan]

When presenting your startup to anyone anytime

1/ What is it?
2/ What problem does it solve and for who?
3/ Why is this the best?

All the commentary in the world about your space, your monetization strategy, your tech stack, your brand is nothing without nailing those first 3

[Joao Botto @jsbotto]

@jeff_weinstein wow

[Joao Botto @jsbotto]

What a great idea!

[Gergely Orosz @GergelyOrosz]

If you work in a tech company with screens in meeting rooms: what is on those screens as screensavers?

At Stripe: its realtime business metric graphs.

Support satisfaction, fraud rate trends, revenue for product X.

Just saw these - what a way to “expose” the business to devs!

[Autosport @autosport]

Made of 400,000 bricks, took 22,000 hours to build, top speeds of 20 km/h.

This is how LEGO built those 10 life-size F1 cars 🧱

[Joao Botto @jsbotto]

🤯

[HOW THINGS WORK @HowThingsWork_]

How U.S. interstate highways are numbered

[Joao Botto @jsbotto]

@LuisvonAhn @duolingo can’t wait!

[Joao Botto @jsbotto]

🙏

[Mike Knoop @mikeknoop]

Parent tip: you can upload a photo of your kids printed paper school calendar to ChatGPT and ask it to generate an .ics calendar file that you can directly import

[Gergely Orosz @GergelyOrosz]

Quote from a Director of Engineering in our AI tooling study in @Pragmatic_Eng (part 1 coming out on Tuesday:)

"IMO a GitHub Copilot subscription should be as standard for a new engineering hire as issuing a Macbook."

Tells you a lot about dev positioning of Copilot & Apple

[Joao Botto @jsbotto]

@lennysan @rorysutherland I’d love to hear some of his techniques for distilling a product value proposition

[Joao Botto @jsbotto]

So bold! I love it 👏

[Josh Miller @joshm]

That’s why we raised $50 mil. That’s why we’re being so bold.

That’s ALSO why we started this company in the first place. That’s why we’ve been building at browser layer.

It’s never been about making a Browser, but waiting for opening to build a new OS… here it is, lucky!

[Startup Archive @StartupArchive_]

Jony Ive: "I believe we sense when there's been care taken with a product”

In the clip below, Jony shares that one of the things he has come to feel really strongly is that customers can sense when care has been taken with a product:

“I can’t articulate why, but I believe we sense when there’s been care taken with a product. Just in the same way we sense carelessness.”

Jony believes that most of our manufactured environment today sadly testifies to a degree of carelessness:

“It testifies to: get it built fast, make it cheap, make it look different. There’s just that sort of carelessness. And I just think it’s one of the things that we can strive to do for humanity, and it’s a way that we can serve: is to take care.”

This philosophy may have been instilled by Steve Jobs. In Walter Isaacson’s biography of Jobs, there’s a story of the time Jobs insisted that every element of the Macintosh computer be beautiful—down to the circuit boards inside: “Look at the memory chips. That’s ugly. The lines are too close together.”

When the computer was finally perfected, Jobs had the engineers’ names engraved inside each one. “Real artists sign their work,” he told them.

Isaacson comments:

“No one would ever see them, but the members of the team knew that their signatures were inside, just as they knew that the circuit board was laid out as elegantly as possible.”

Source: @VanityFair

[Yishan @yishan]

Google’s Gemini issue is not really about woke/DEI, and everyone who is obsessing over it has failed to notice the much, MUCH bigger problem that it represents.

(1/n)

[Farnam Street @farnamstreet]

If you can't write for pleasure, you can't write for money.

[Packy McCormick @packyM]

Can't wait 'til we get back to this part of the cycle.