Tim Dalton

Product leader at Redgate. Building AI infrastructure into how I work. Sharing what I'm learning at

[Tim Dalton @timdalton]

Been quiet on here for a while. Getting back to sharing what I'm learning.

The PM work I did five years ago is now automated. So I've been building AI into how I actually work — not prompting, building.

The interesting bit is what it's teaching me about product decisions.

[Tim Dalton @timdalton]

I maintain a document that tells my AI system what it consistently gets wrong. Twenty minutes a week to update. Hours saved correcting the same mistakes.

Each entry is a failure I only had to experience once.

Any team using AI tools can start this today.
https://t.co/Bm5hnYRmXp

[Tim Dalton @timdalton]

The question isn't "how do we ship faster?"

It's "how do we ship wider?"

One person running five parallel AI workstreams changes the planning conversation completely. Most product teams haven't had that conversation yet.
https://t.co/Bm5hnYQP7R

[Tim Dalton @timdalton]

https://t.co/Bm5hnYQP7R

[Tim Dalton @timdalton]

Anthropic shipped 74 releases in 52 days. Everyone's talking about speed.

Speed is the symptom. The structural choices underneath it are what matter.

I studied how they work and tested it against my own product work. Full post:

[Tim Dalton @timdalton]

Link if you want to try it out: https://t.co/BMbtfdJ0vo

[Tim Dalton @timdalton]

Built a weather app on evenings and weekends. It doesn't show you forecasts. It just tells you: jacket or no jacket. Umbrella or don't bother. That's it. Shipped it to the App Store this week.

[Tim Dalton @timdalton]

The pattern that keeps repeating with AI workflows: building them is fast. Defining what matters is slow.

The priorities document took longer than the automation itself.

I think that's going to be the real skill going forward. Knowing what to point it at.

[Tim Dalton @timdalton]

Been quiet on here for a while. Getting back to sharing what I'm learning.

The PM work I did five years ago is now automated. So I've been building AI into how I actually work — not prompting, building.

The interesting bit is what it's teaching me about product decisions.

[Tim Dalton @timdalton]

https://t.co/fx6LDVgRNZ

[Tim Dalton @timdalton]

Built a system that reads The Economist against my strategic priorities every morning.

Thought it would save me time. It didn't - not much. What changed was what I noticed. Connections I would have skimmed past.

The automation didn't replace my reading. It gave me better eyes.

[Tim Dalton @timdalton]

Wrote about the full experience here: https://t.co/fx6LDVgRNZ

[Tim Dalton @timdalton]

@DodoNerd Guessing you already know the obvious ones like @prodcollective @MindtheProduct. Also wondered if you’d consider a trip to Cambridge to talk to our team?

[Laura McInerney @miss_mcinerney]

Teacher Tapp is coming into 2023 with 10,000 teachers sharing thoughts every day & a LOT of policy to start influencing. (Oh hii Labour Party👋)

We also want to add some kickass new features & so we need a PRINCIPAL SOFTWARE ENGINEER.
Could it be YOU?
https://t.co/xrrve9DwWt

[Eileen Wang @eileendoodles]

Reminder for all those who are interviewing right now:

The hiring team *wants* you to succeed. When interviewing, they are looking for signals that show you care about what they care about. Hiring takes a long time, so no one is intentionally looking to disqualify you.

[Tim Dalton @timdalton]

@Fhcwigley @kennethstorr @nedboulting I can’t get to the gig but I appreciate the gesture you both made. Donated to the charities.

[Tim Dalton @timdalton]

And there are so many more... Make sure you go and say hi to all these lovely people at the event. If you’ve not yet registered there’s still time to get a ticket. https://t.co/aomkYNbP71

[Tim Dalton @timdalton]

With #PASSDataCommunitySummit just weeks away, a whole bunch of people around me are working on their sessions. Here are just a few that I’d love for you to go and see:

[Tim Dalton @timdalton]

Finally, I couldn’t not include the lovely @bcemmett. I believe he was born in the Redgate offices so if anybody is qualified to talk about a life building database monitoring tooling it’s him.