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Let's growth hack blog visitor numbers and keep on recording how I use agents/LLMs today as a little reflection on where I think they work and where they don't. Something I can revisit as the tech (and my skill with it) improves This is update number five, or entry number six, depending on how you want to count it. part 1 - structured tone of fascination + scepticism part 2 - learning how to…
I have lost roughly 60% of my cynicism about the current high-water mark for LLMs and augmented coding… I am certain this last 9 months has been a significant generational change in how we can approach work. Oh no, I'm AI pilled Let's growth hack blog visitor numbers record how I use them today as a little reflection on where I think they work and where they don't. Something I can revisit as the…
At a recent company offsite a bunch of people asked me how many of the off-sites I'd been on. I didn't remember so I made this list since if I don't remember now I have no chance of remembering in 5 or 10 years. 2021 Place Type Note Hackathon London my onboarding Jams said "just do the right thing" which was a good signal this company was cool Milan working, not a company trip i just had to go to…
My favourite quote is "The plans are useless, the planning is essential" Since the plans are useless, why do we run planning sessions at all? It's planning season at work. We are high trust, high agency, and minimise collaboration. It is pretty common for folk to change their plans and they do so without needing to seek approval. Without shared context and an understanding of the broader picture,…
I remain very cynical about the current high-water mark for LLMs and augmented coding… but at the same time I use them every day and I don't think they're finished improving. Let's growth hack blog visitor numbers record how I use them today as a little reflection on where I think they work and where they don't. Something I can revisit as the tech (and my skill with it) improves This is update…
I shipped 1000 PRs in the last 12 months at PostHog . And someone asked me how I do it… let's see if i know. preamble yes, yes, I know you don't think I should count PRs when a measure becomes a target it stops being a useful measure embrace yourself advice it is running not cycling small steps ftw practice like a jazz musician love making things one more iteration yes, yes, I know you don't think…
I've been lucky to watch some excellent engineers, product managers, and user researchers carry out user interviews. And had the opportunity at PostHog to practice that skill. I've explained all this a couple of times to different people, so thought I'd write it down. set expectations write down quotes show > tell compound interest sometimes stop be a Labrador this is the redesign that will kill…
I remain very cynical about the current high-water mark for LLMs and augmented coding… but at the same time I use them every day and I don't think they're finished improving. Let's growth hack blog visitor numbers record how I use them today as a little reflection on where I think they work and where they don't. Something I can revisit as the tech (and my skill with it) improves This is update…
There are a few memes (in the original sense) that have got stuck in my head. They feel like the beginning of madness. I'm going to track them, to see how many I accumulate water isn't real old people are time travellers Each of them feels like something that would tip a different me over the edge into madness. Water isn't real I could be easily convinced that water isn't real. Sit in a boat, look…
I remain very cynical about the current high-water mark for LLMs and augmented coding… but at the same time I use them every day and I don't think they're finished improving. Let's growth hack blog visitor numbers record how I use them today as a little reflection on where I think they work and where they don't. Something I can revisit as the tech (and my skill with it) improves This is update…