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I also feel like Wintermute is almost here. Who’s gonna arrive first?

The author says in the introduction that a certain amount of the book is verified. Presence of LLM-use doesn’t inherently make something of less value.

Oh cool. I’m going to try this with my Conure at home. I hadn’t thought about “BAO” as a test before, we’ve done all sorts of little things in front of the mirror to see if he responds.

This was refreshing to read. I’m a big believer in getting things done especially when some process or people get in your way. In my experience people usually understand “oh this person is trying to make things better so this arbitrary process should take a backseat here”. Even people only working the clock will work with you if you frame it well.

So is it a structured data-based language model? Or is there a model and a harness? Hopefully they’ll open up and explain more.

“We put liquid bandage on a bee, and it died”

I loved MUDs as a kid, and really do miss the sense of immersion and depth that came from joining a long established server and just exploring.

It was, but it’s a dry place so I should have made it a bit more obvious

I guess we should probably start looking for a new planet. Nothing else to be done I’m afraid.

Lucid product vision is kind of the bar for “good product management”, I agree that slopping on top of a lack of direction is just going to make things worse. The issue with PMs going off on tangents with AI is the lack of engineering know how that they’ll need to adopt to stay competitive.

Any product manager worth their salt should be in a coding interface--the line between Product and Engineering is blurring a lot more now, and to stay competitive PMs will need to reach a little further into the technicalities. Otherwise you risk just being another “idea guy” pushing tickets around, basically customer support on steroids which is getting eaten by Agents. Connecting the ideas to something tangible and translatable that an Agent could not do themselves is the new game.

(I am a PM of 15 years trying to navigate all of this…)

Wintermute is out there…

Not trying to be critical, but there are a number of misspellings and grammatical issues and it was actually a breath of fresh air to be reminded while I was reading that a real human being wrote this. I feel a little inspired to turn off spell check for my own writing.