tommydevries

I work at the intersection of business, technology, and humanity to liberate businesses and their humans from ordinary.

[Boris Cherny @bcherny]

As engineering, product, design, DS, etc. melt into a new kind of role, I was reflecting on what roles might look like in the future. For example, when I look at the Claude Code team I see what I think is five archetypes:

1. Prototyper: comes up with brand new ideas; churns out many ideas, most of which don't ship
2. Builder: quickly turns a prototype/idea into production-grade product/infra
3. Sweeper: cleans up the UI, simplifies the code and system, unships, optimizes performance
4. Grower: takes a product that has been built and iterates on it to improve Product-Market Fit
5. Maintainer: owns a mature system to make it secure, reliable, fast, and efficient as it scales

Many people span across 2 roles, and sometimes 3 roles. I also notice that these roles are not really tied to job function -- eg. across Anthropic, some designers match category 1, some 2, some 3; same for engineers, PM, DS.

A healthy team needs a mix of these, depending on the product:

- A product that is new and pre-PMF needs people that are strong at 1+2+3
- A product that is growing and has found PMF needs 2+3+4 and some 5
- A product that has strong PMF needs 3+4+5 and some 2

Maybe product roles of the future will look more like this, and less like the domain-specific roles of today?

[tommydevries @tommydevries]

That's how the follower pack stays only a few months behind the leader.

Cheating off the smart kid's paper, at industrial scale.

[tommydevries @tommydevries]

Anthropic says Alibaba queried Claude 28M times to build a cheaper Claude.

Let the leader spend hundreds of millions building the frontier model, then reverse-engineer it from the answers for a fraction of the cost.

[Peter Steinberger 🦞 @steipete]

Here’s your monthly reminder that you shouldn’t be prompting coding agents anymore.

You should be designing loops that prompt your agents.

[tommydevries @tommydevries]

Is your org suffereing from The Coyote Problem ?https://t.co/W1105UA06J via @LinkedIn

[tommydevries @tommydevries]

Social media is dead.
It's been replaced by algorithmic media — and somehow we missed it.
Same apps. Completely different logic.
From connection → to consumption.
That's why it feels empty.

[tommydevries @tommydevries]

There's a new kind of debt I call 'judgment debt'.

Every time AI does your thinking work, you get output faster but miss the opportunity to develop good judgment.

It compounds silently, for individuals and organizations, and comes due at the worst time.

[tommydevries @tommydevries]

@gregisenberg thnks for sharing

[tommydevries @tommydevries]

@amasad as a designer, i must agree. the creativity emerging from software engineers is insane.

[tommydevries @tommydevries]

@emollick AI UX is just being born.
It’s like industrial design when electricity arrived.

The technology works. The challenge is making it delightful to use.

The models are the engine.
AI UX define the products.

This is an entrepreneur's playground.

[tommydevries @tommydevries]

@karpathy Autoresearch has limetless applications. I applied the 5 min loop and auto update to multiple agents immediately. It's a beautiful balance of amplifying inteligence with limited compute. Thanks.

[tommydevries @tommydevries]

The next competitive advantage doesn't belong to whoever removes the most friction.

It belongs to whoever understands which friction was load-bearing.

What have you optimized into forgettability?

[tommydevries @tommydevries]

Friction-maxxing might be the most interesting thing happening in 2026.

People are framing it as a lifestyle choice.
It's actually a market correction.

Here's what the data is pointing at that the design industry hasn't wanted to admit.

[tommydevries @tommydevries]

Frictionless products are not bad products.
They are becoming forgettable ones.

You use them. You do not remember using them. You certainly don't tell anyone about them.

This is a design problem. It is also, increasingly, a business problem.

[Peter Yang @petergyang]

I tried @NotebookLM's new Cinematic Video Overview with my latest deep dive:

"Your New Job Is to Onboard AI Agents"

Honestly, it came out super well. Really impressed by how it created its own structure and narrative.

📌 Watch below:

[tommydevries @tommydevries]

AI is the most powerful—and most dangerous—technology in human history.

Get it right, and it lights the path to a brighter future.
Get it wrong, and it spreads darkness at the speed of light.

Act wisely.

#ResponsibleAI #AIGovernance #AIFuture #TechLeadership #AIRevolution

[tommydevries @tommydevries]

Customer experience is the practice of aligning business and technology elements to deliver holistic value to customers over time. To achieve that goal, it prioritizes optimization of the total system over optimization of sub systems.

[Alex Reibman 🖇️ @AlexReibman]

OpenAI’s biggest rival is shaking things up.

Anthropic invited 200+ elite hackers to their SF headquarters to see what’s possible with Claude

Here’s what we saw at the @AnthropicAI x @MenloVentures Builder Day Hackathon (🧵):

[tommydevries @tommydevries]

In a world driven by algorithms serving the same old stuff, businesses win by embracing the humanities—turning customers' lives into stories filled with meaning, delight, and surprise.