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If you are not a software engineer you can judge code the same way as you can judge design while not being a designer.

Very true.

I am not an engineer, I can't look at code and determine if it is good, performant, or elegant. However, I can look at designs and make a judgement. I'm curious to see how Claude Design changes how I think about AI and its capabilities.

'It's not X, it's Y' sentence formulations are usually indicative of LLM assisted writing.

I don’t think this is a spicy take at all. A PM’s job is to prioritise, and the most important/high priority projects will naturally be handled by Engineers enabled with AI-coding workflows. The high priority/impact work should be allocated to the folks with the highest level of skill.

I feel like PMs coding unlocks a whole new category of work, mainly addressing the long tail of cool ideas/small optimisations that ordinarily would not be addressed. Time will tell how valuable these items are in the long term.

And I say this as a PM.

I have been working on a web app called Beval - Simple evaluations for your AI product.

In my day to day as a Product Manager working in a team that ships AI products, I often found myself wanting to do 'quick and dirty' LLM based evaluation on conversation transcripts and traces. I found myself blocked by 'Gemini in Google Sheets', it was too slow and cumbersome, and it didn't handle eval changes well. And because I was exploring, it wasn't helpful to try and set up something more robust with the team.

To fix the problem I eventually learned to call the OpenAI API in python, but I really felt that I wanted a 'product' to help me and potentially help others.

So this weekend I built https://beval.space

If you don't schedule it, it's not real

Personally I find this kind of approach infantilizing. I don't think it's fair to have an expectation of yourself or of your colleagues to spell out in Google Calendar what you/they are spending their time doing throughout the day. People should look at gaps in people's diaries not as opportunities for new meetings, but as time someone is probably spending doing something important or interesting.

Honestly, I'd suggest a prioritsation matrix here.

Classify all the tasks with an impact / ease score from 0-5. Multiply the numbers together to understand the relative priority of each item.

It won't be perfect but it will a good place to start.

You also do this at a product level instead, and invest all your time onto one product to begin with. This might reduce your switching costs working between projects/products.

I’m an Obsidian user. I pay for Obsidian sync, and I love the philosophy behind their product. However, and I feel stupid for saying this, but I just find it confusing to use. It’s difficult for me to wrap my head around plugins, and understanding how it wants me to use it.

For now, I’m just sticking to using it for daily notes, but I feel there’s so much I’m missing.

I'm curious as to what risk means in this context?

UX feedback: When I scroll to the bottom of the page linked in the post, and click on the API/Pricing links in the footer, it fails to redirect me.

Former Product Marketing Manager here. When I saw the word 'designs' on your landing page, I assumed the application would convert my screenshot into a Figma file/equivalent. Instead it looks like your app creates social ready images of screenshotted UI. I wonder if there's a better word to use than 'designs' that better captures what looks like the intended use case.

Thank you for linking this

I hated that I loved this - great concept.

It's incredible to me how much worse this web page is than a comparable Apple one. Just from a cursory glance, I've seen some late loading elements, weird and confusing pricing before I've even seen the whole phone, and a weirdly masked and slightly pixelated video.

Slack must be happy that AI + LLMs came at a moment where the novelty of their product seemed to be wearing off, and similarly to how people now think about email, Slack seems to (sadly, in my opinion) be gaining a reputation as a place for noise, busywork, and distraction. AI can solve those problems (a second time, as Slack was designed to make workplace communication more efficient).

Maybe for things like "ship war rooms" for product launches, or during holiday sale event for e-commerce websites?

That's interesting. If the use case is meant to be during one-off or exceptionally busy periods, do you anticipate team members having these on their desks the whole year round?

This finding suggests that the key to a high score isn’t necessarily landing viral hits, but rather consistently sharing stories.

This is interesting. I find it's very difficult to predict which links do and don't perform on Hacker News, resulting in quite a diverse (to me at least) series of stories. Thanks for the analysis.

I just left a (non-engineering) role where I was a people manager of 7. It was great at first but I genuinely felt my skills atrophying, so I left to join a much smaller and flatter team.

I know HN is can sometimes come across as 'management-phobic', and having been on that side of the fence there is a lot value that can be added by managers.

That said, I do wonder how many of these managers who have been asked to become ICs might actually be relieved. In an increasingly competitive economic environment, some could see this as a good thing.

Thank you for sharing this. As a non-engineer but a bedroom guitarist, this video was helpful for me to grasp how impressive ChatGPT is, but also helped me understand the level of human input is necessary to create a useful result. I think I counted 30+ iterations and maybe around 3 hours of time expended by the creator of the video.

It is also down in Lisbon, Portugal. This could be global?

It must be difficult to create a 404 page that is funny, helpful, and not also incredibly annoying.

I really love it, I'm fascinated by the quirky design and UI that a lot of music gear like this uses. You've really captured that in this!

The point around transparency is so important. I see so many issues that could be solved by just having discussions 'in public' on open Slack channels, with thought processes and outcomes available for all (or more) to see and potentially be a part of.

LottieLab lets you create and edit Lottie animations without having to deal with AE. I'm not an AE expert (which seems to be the bottleneck for creating these types of animations), so tools like these seem interesting.

https://lottielab.io

macOS Monterey will include screen sharing for FaceTime! It should be released in a month or so.

This is cool, but I feel like I should be able to select my country of origin immediately when I select the destination I’m interested in, rather than having to reselect each time I explore a visa.

That would be awesome

Rebrands have the tendency to get a lot of unwarranted hate in my opinion, but they should be celebrated. Small details sometimes seem trite or inconsequential, but a brand and logo has so many stakeholders in the way it looks and what it communicates, so any small changes can become a big deal for a lot of people. I think Backblaze have made a nice update, and they should celebrate, because in redefining their brand, they probably have redefined and recommunicated other elements of their business internally.

I did a degree in English Literature. It didn't make me hate reading, it just really, really complicated my relationship with the activity.

This is a great move from Etsy. I believe the future of fashion is high quality items being bought, resold, or rented.

I don't think this because it's better for the environment (though it is), it's because I think young consumers genuinely want to consume fashion this way. They want to be seen in higher quality clothing, and the Depop model of buy and sell is the way to attain that.

I absolutely love this. Last year during the pandemic, we were using Eventbrite to process payments for events we were running. The cash we were getting was keeping our business going, until they decided to change their policy regarding pay outs (presumably due to cash flow issues of their own).

In the end we found that using Typeform with a Stripe integration was the best way to reliably and quickly transact with our customers, so I'm extremely pleased Stripe has released a no code checkout experience of their own. Really excited to use this. Thank you Stripe.