Miguel Seabra Melo

Tech-savvy, business-wise, future-curious. Founder and ex-CEO/CTO of Product League. Love music, cinema, gaming, design and learning new things.

[Miguel Seabra Melo @macsmelo]

Though I don't fancy myself as a programmer anymore, I invariably "dabble". And when I do, I totally subscribe to @karpathy 's thoughts below. Coding has really changed.

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

I've never felt this much behind as a programmer. The profession is being dramatically refactored as the bits contributed by the programmer are increasingly sparse and between. I have a sense that I could be 10X more powerful if I just properly string together what has become available over the last ~year and a failure to claim the boost feels decidedly like skill issue. There's a new programmable layer of abstraction to master (in addition to the usual layers below) involving agents, subagents, their prompts, contexts, memory, modes, permissions, tools, plugins, skills, hooks, MCP, LSP, slash commands, workflows, IDE integrations, and a need to build an all-encompassing mental model for strengths and pitfalls of fundamentally stochastic, fallible, unintelligible and changing entities suddenly intermingled with what used to be good old fashioned engineering. Clearly some powerful alien tool was handed around except it comes with no manual and everyone has to figure out how to hold it and operate it, while the resulting magnitude 9 earthquake is rocking the profession. Roll up your sleeves to not fall behind.

[Miguel Seabra Melo @macsmelo]

Love this quote from W. Edwards Deming, because it _sounds_ at odds with what we in tech are normally told of "moving fast and breaking things". https://t.co/2R2mCTsFw4

[Miguel Seabra Melo @macsmelo]

Because there are always (at least) 2 sides to every story. A humbling retrospective from the person who replaced Steve Jobs as CEO, when he was fired back in the 80s. https://t.co/Ffunc2ak1y

[a16z @a16z]

Thought experiment: If you were blindfolded in a room and someone only described what’s around you… could you complete a task?

Now imagine seeing the room. Instantly, your brain reconstructs the space in 3D.

That’s why language isn’t enough.

@martin_casado and @drfeifei explain why spatial intelligence is the next frontier for AI — and why mastering the physical world matters more than language alone.

Listen to the full conversation from the a16z LP Summit: https://t.co/X1ndjaSMqo

[Miguel Seabra Melo @macsmelo]

“Sometimes, the more expensive option is integral to the product, service, or customer experience concept you’re testing in the first place. If you launch too lean at your customer’s expense, you may never get the chance to wow them” — Rachel Greenberg https://t.co/JMsQmajhiG

[Miguel Seabra Melo @macsmelo]

"The right question is what am I going to do tomorrow that really gets me excited, that really brings the best out of me?"
https://t.co/y9yAddTwHW

[Miguel Seabra Melo @macsmelo]

Resilience 101: "Sometimes you just have to find humour on the hamster wheel" - @DaisyAD

[Miguel Seabra Melo @macsmelo]

Very relatable exposition on finding balance between intellectually interesting pursuits and commercial aspects by @stephen_wolfram (yes, of Wolfram Alpha fame). Thank you @ShawhinT for sharing.

[Shaw Talebi @ShawhinT]

Last week, I asked @stephen_wolfram for advice on entrepreneurship.

Here’s what he said 👇

[Miguel Seabra Melo @macsmelo]

@HowardSchultz "I'd be more than willing to sacrifice economics [of @Starbucks saving 30 cents per transaction in the app] to go back to ways of enhancing the experience myself" (around 2h08m). https://t.co/xlHAGDLDJH

[Miguel Seabra Melo @macsmelo]

"A better tech industry is one where executives default to engineers, where success is derived not just from a company's ability to grow every quarter but from its ability to improve the lives of its customers."
https://t.co/lwazfiD5BX.

[Miguel Seabra Melo @macsmelo]

@damor_eth @SteelWoolStudio Absolutely remarkable book.

[Miguel Seabra Melo @macsmelo]

“The issue all entrepreneurs [of a product that solves a problem] face is that customers don’t care about solving problems; customers care about accomplishing goals.” @AaronDinin https://t.co/yleoPaFIAk

[Miguel Seabra Melo @macsmelo]

Why is it @TAP_Portugal that your flights always depart late due to "delays at the destination"? Do you land at different airports than other companies?

[Miguel Seabra Melo @macsmelo]

“The trouble with ignorance is that when we lack knowledge, we fall into the trap of assuming our limited understanding represents the whole picture.” — @buzzedison https://t.co/ZHEZ0gVMWq

[Miguel Seabra Melo @macsmelo]

"I'm not all that pleased. I basically screwed up. I could have done a lot better if I had been a little smarter, a little quicker. I do think about what I missed by being just not quite smart enough or hardworking enough." - @icharliemunger #humility #nonconformity

[Miguel Seabra Melo @macsmelo]

"Being a futurist should be more about Gedankenexperimente than statistics. But the current trend is to shoot anything down that doesn’t feel achievable. So we end up in this cycle of repeating the same crap over and over"

[Miguel Seabra Melo @macsmelo]

3 remarkable career rules to follow #CharlieMunger https://t.co/e1FvPrauOP

[Miguel Seabra Melo @macsmelo]

Well worth reading.
https://t.co/vxGJQdExm4

[Miguel Seabra Melo @macsmelo]

@NS_online why are check-in poles in @Schiphol so far away from train platforms?! Why force people to look for them in a huge crowded airport hall rather than place them close to the escalators/platforms? #CX

[Miguel Seabra Melo @macsmelo]

Starting to set up @LeagueSocials booth at @OutSystems #nxStep 2023, wearing a 10-year NextStep vintage t-shirt! #timeflies