Matt Lake

Sr. Director of Product @Pega. Builder and breaker of many things. Opinions are my own. #Enterprise #Platforms #Mobile #AI #Chatbots #pizza

[Matt Lake @lakema]

@mattpondpamusic @headandtheheart This is so good and I love the collaboration. It really made me miss NY.

[Matt Lake @lakema]

@Yelix I gave up on reading that article due to “stylistic choices”

[👩‍💻 Paige Bailey @DynamicWebPaige]

🤯 Mind officially blown:

I recorded a screen capture of a task (looking for an apartment on Zillow). Gemini was able to generate Selenium code to replicate that task, and described everything I did step-by-step.

It even caught that my threshold was set to $3K, even though I didn't explicitly select it. 🤯🔥

"This code will open a Chrome browser, navigate to Zillow, enter "Cupertino, CA" in the search bar, click on the "For Rent" tab, set the price range to "Up to $3K", set the number of bedrooms to "2+", select the "Apartments/Condos/Co-ops" checkbox, click on the "Apply" button, wait for the results to load, print the results, and close the browser."

[Matt Lake @lakema]

@BlairReeves Congratulations!

[Wes Kao 🏛 @wes_kao]

Too much backstory is one of the biggest killers of good stories.

Backstory scope creep is real. We've all been there: Long-winded, stream of conscious explanations—all in the name of "giving context."

I've been guilty of it myself.

The solution?

Minimum viable backstory

[Pietro Schirano @skirano]

This is absolutely wild. I am completely speechless.

[Aravind Srinivas @AravSrinivas]

This actually happened to Evernote. They took the advice of “keep talking to your customers and ship whatever they want” as the only guiding principle for product development. And what ended up happening was paying users liked it, but the product become unintuitive and feature overload for the new user. To the extent that they had to rebuild a version for the new user.

Users don’t always know if they really want something. It’s your job to take the extra step to think on their behalf: whether they really need this. Or can what they ask be done through something much simpler. Or can you solve multiple problems of different users with one new redesign rather than a bunch of changes. The right principle is: “Keep talking and listening to your users, spend the additional time thinking on their behalf what they actually want, and ship that”.

[Paul Graham @paulg]

Even the people who create the future don't foresee more than the sliver of it that they're going to build. And the best of them underestimate the effect they'll have.

[Amber Bravo @amberbravo]

@figma @bchesky @skuwamoto @yuhkiyam @joulee @lennysan also @lennysan with the real talk

[Carl Vellotti 🥞 @carlvellotti]

1-pagers are critical for getting buy-in for your ideas.

But they're very hard to write well.

Here's:
🔹 a step-by-step guide to the 1-pager
🔹 examples of mistakes and how to fix them

(+a FREE template for rock-solid 1-pagers)

Step 1: Writing the 1-pager!

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

Pale Blue Dot is a photo of Earth that was taken by the Voyager 1 space probe in 1990 from a distance of about 6 billion kilometers (3.7 billion miles) as it was leaving our solar system. This is what Carl Sagan said about the photo:

"Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it, everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor, and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every 'superstar,' every 'supreme leader,' every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there — on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.

The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand. It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.”

[Product Hunt 😸 @ProductHunt]

What's your favorite feature ever and why is it this one?

[scott belsky @scottbelsky]

Generative Fill, a new superpower integrated throughout Photoshop, launching in beta today.

Powered by Firefly, our generative AI family of models, Photoshop now let’s you summon new objects and augment creations layer by layer. Saves time, increases possibility, and pretty 🤯

[Matt Lake @lakema]

@LukeW Oh man, I think about this all. the. time. There are some fun things on the PM’s notepad.

[Don Schuerman @donpega]

My latest byline in Forbes addresses obstacles orgs face when moving to an autonomous way of operating. Addressing legacy systems, siloed data, and trust of AI models is essential as companies look to operationalize the agility they need to compete. https://t.co/UdqYuVeJU1

[Linus ✦ Ekenstam @LinusEkenstam]

🤯 stfu and take my money

This is the most impressive campaign I’ve seen from a mega brand so far using AI & StableDiffusion.

Would love a breakdown of how this was all done.

[Justine Moore @venturetwins]

If you want to drive someone crazy:

Ask Midjourney to generate a game of Where's Waldo.

It will generate images that LOOK legitimate enough to spend time looking - but do not, in fact, contain Waldo (I think?).

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

Hey ChatGPT Code Interpreter: Create code that would win me a science fair. I am a high schooler. Pick whatever field you want, and make sure you run the code and give me the results and how to present it.

Give me visualizations, and a way to explain them. Now give me a speech.

[NBER @nberpubs]

Generative AI increases productivity, by 14 percent on average, as measured by issues resolved per hour, from @erikbryn @Danielle__Li, and @LindseyRRaymond https://t.co/UhcuD5Fpbk

[Seth Rosen @sethrosen]

Them: Can you just quickly pull this data for me?

Me: Sure, let me just:

SELECT * FROM some_ideal_clean_and_pristine.table_that_you_think_exists