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“It’s Hard to Eval” Is a Product Smell — ** Hamel Husain argues that hard to evaluate AI products are often hard for users to trust or verify. Useful framing for AI product design, evals, and quality checks.

Engineering the Agentic SDLC — Optiver's engineering team on restructuring their software development lifecycle around AI coding agents.

Formal Methods and the Future of Programming — Jane Street's index of posts on how formal methods are shaping (and could reshape) day-to-day software engineering.

The New SDLC With Vibe Coding — A whitepaper examining how "vibe coding" with AI assistants is changing the traditional software development lifecycle.

From Open Source Software to Open Source Strategy — An argument that open source has evolved from a development model into a full corporate strategy.

Your Job Is Disappearing. I Watched Mine Disappear At Least Six Times. — A veteran engineer's perspective on surviving repeated waves of job-displacing technology.

Everything, Everywhere is Compliance — a16z on how compliance requirements are becoming an inescapable design constraint across every product category.

Harness Engineering Explained: What the Claude Leak Means for AI Products — The Claude Code leak revealed why harness engineering not models drives reliable AI products. Learn what it means for product managers and AI strategy.

50 startups transforming industries with physical AI — After decades of promise, autonomous systems and robotics are moving from labs to factory floors and households powered by breakthroughs in AI and hardware.

Securing AI agents: the defining cybersecurity challenge of 2026 — The agentic workforce is pushing CISOs to reimagine the security stack as they navigate an evolving threat landscape.

Nestwell: Home health assessment — Similar to

Nestwell: Home health assessment — Similar to

Pragmatic Engineer's deep dive into AWS S3's architecture reveals how Amazon employs formal verification methods to ensure the reliability and correctness of one of the world's most critical storage systems.

Lenny Rachitsky's newsletter explores how product managers can develop AI product intuition, covering frameworks for evaluating AI-driven product decisions.

Dream Launch Studio offers a rapid prototyping platform for product teams, with pricing models designed to accelerate early-stage product development.

Y Combinator publishes updated Request for Startups outlining high-priority areas for new ventures

Podium launches AI-powered lead generation and management platform for retail businesses

The Palantir-ization of everything

The YouTube Moment for Software is happening What products to build?

10 of the coolest tech products we saw at CES 2026 WiFiHaLow technology at CES 2026

Convergent Research Eric Schmidt Non Profit working on world changing problems.

Template for Yearly Review — guide for annual review

Investigating the GitHub `safe_sleep.sh` Bash Script Situation. Great video on Bash features >/dev/null 2>&1

Coding patterns

Mapping whats inside human brain with proteins

Big Ideas 2026: Part 2

Big Ideas 2026: Part 3

The Bubble Is Labor Companies only hire people because they can't do all the work themselves.

Building Your Personal AI Infrastructure with Daniel Miessler Use these tool for my personal Claude Skills.

Workout Tracker Vibe Coded Fitbod competition

TIME's Top 100 Photos of 2025

All in One Platform for Proxies and Web Scraping like this 2025 conference

All in One Platform for Proxies and Web Scraping like this 2025 conference

Upwelling great model by ink and switch to come-up with new research ideas for software.

Automerge CRDTs in a product

A case for only CSS Ask AI to use this approach when coding next

Do you really need tailwindcss? A great way to learn and use modern CSS

You've (Likely) Been Playing The Game of Life Wrong Explaining Normal, Lognormal and Powerlaw distribution Sandpile SimulationIsling ModelForest Fire Model

You've (Likely) Been Playing The Game of Life Wrong Explaining Normal, Lognormal and Powerlaw distribution Sandpile SimulationIsling ModelForest Fire Model

You've (Likely) Been Playing The Game of Life Wrong Explaining Normal, Lognormal and Powerlaw distribution Sandpile SimulationIsling ModelForest Fire Model

You've (Likely) Been Playing The Game of Life Wrong Explaining Normal, Lognormal and Powerlaw distribution Sandpile SimulationIsling ModelForest Fire Model

Making Software Art for of a book

Ideas for AI agents to go build

Dynamic Programming Application of Dynamic programming to economics, finance etal.

QuantEcon OpenSource economic modeling - on Markov chains.

Developing Your Own Font

Generative UI: A rich, custom, visual interactive user experience for any prompt Generative UI!

Fantasy VC Portfolio use this outline to build an app which lets you play being a VC publicly.

SaaS management free trial & pricing | Trelica IT Spend Management Solution [[data/content/2025/Lib13]]

The Definitive Report on the AI PM Market

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model my dot-files after these. Each is great to xargs

x402.org Coinbase's x402

The future of the web is the history of YouTube Will software reach net zero and will Google-zero happen?

A PM's Guide to Evaluating AI Agents Using n8n to evaluate AI Agents.

The Heart of a Teacher: The Power of tREACHING - LEXILE HUB

Startup Security: A Framework From Series B to Series E Funding Startup Security

State of Crypto Crypto and AI are converging? really?

TBM 384: Prioritization Starts With Strategic Prioritization 7 Powers of Prioritization!

LinkedIn’s engagement is falling by 10% day over day. What would you do? | PM Exercises LinkedIn's engagement is falling 10%, what would you do as a product manager?

Qualcomm Buys Arduino

Apple shelves Vision Pro overhaul to focus on AI glasses They're building two versions: basic iPhone-paired glasses coming 2027, and display-equipped ones to rival Meta's Ray-Ban Display.

User fingerprinting with Markov chains

The TikTok Trend of Writing in Margins Is Based on Real Neuroscience

She Replaced Her Productivity Apps with 4 Notebooks - Here's What Happened

Product Management Fundamentals Make Better Engineers and Program Managers

vadimdemedes/ink: 🌈 React for interactive command-line apps

React Won by Default – And It's Killing Frontend Innovation

Linkgraphs are fun • AndreGarzia.com

How we reduced manual regression tests by 70% using AI tools

Radar Trends to Watch: September 2025 Readable summary

Ray Tracing in One Weekend - in Rust (Part 1) Learning Rust with Peter Shirley's learning RayTracing in one weekend

Ray Tracing in One Weekend - in Rust (Part 1) Learning Rust with Peter Shirley's learning RayTracing in one weekend

Amazon.com: Who Does What By How Much?: A Practical Guide to Customer-Centric OKRs eBook : Gothelf, Jeff, Seiden, Josh: Kindle Store

The Cloud 100 Benchmarks Report 2025

Thiel Fellowship

Everything I know about good API design Is REST the BEST?

My desk setup in 2025.

How DOOM Will Teach You What CS Degrees Miss Here is the source for DOOM, this a great video on using BSP (Constructing Good Partition Trees) to show 3D (with 2.5D) world. The Black book of DOOM and Masters of DOOM

How DOOM Will Teach You What CS Degrees Miss Here is the source for DOOM, this a great video on using BSP (Constructing Good Partition Trees) to show 3D (with 2.5D) world. The Black book of DOOM and Masters of DOOM

How DOOM Will Teach You What CS Degrees Miss Here is the source for DOOM, this a great video on using BSP (Constructing Good Partition Trees) to show 3D (with 2.5D) world. The Black book of DOOM and Masters of DOOM

How DOOM Will Teach You What CS Degrees Miss Here is the source for DOOM, this a great video on using BSP (Constructing Good Partition Trees) to show 3D (with 2.5D) world. The Black book of DOOM and Masters of DOOM

How DOOM Will Teach You What CS Degrees Miss Here is the source for DOOM, this a great video on using BSP (Constructing Good Partition Trees) to show 3D (with 2.5D) world. The Black book of DOOM and Masters of DOOM

Roadmap: AI systems of action Systems of Action vs Systems of Record.

Observable Notebooks 2.0 Technology Preview | Observable

The PhD is the New MBA

Can You Write A Web Server in PURE BASH?! (no socat, no netcat, no external tools)

Using a Notebook (This Way) Changed How I Travel Summer Travel

TBM 273: What To Do More (And Less) Of

The Master Builder is the most valuable type of DevRel right now

uReview: Scalable, Trustworthy GenAI for Code Review at Uber GenAI Code Review.

Modern Financial & Retirement Planning Tools Simulate your life!

Tobi Lütke's leadership playbook: First principles, infinite games, and maximizing human potential . Today is dystopia of tomorrow.

Newsletters I read - Newsletters to follow.

5 books that changed my engineering career forever Best Software Books?

What are Forward Deployed Engineers, and why are they so in demand?

TBM 271: Diagnosing Your Company's Strategy Problem You needs a strategy but how to think of it? The key issue is situational awareness.

🐴 Fusion: Imagine Cursor and Figma have a baby

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AI is a Floor Raiser, Not a Ceiling Raiser

Leadership co-processing with LLMs

jarulraj/periodic-table: A Periodic Table of System Design Principles

Byrne's Euclid A template for making product which showcases old literature in a new light.

Free PM MBA: Roadmap to PM & AI Mastery

The Upgraded Go-to-Market Playbook

TBM 365: The Problem With Value Hierarchies (Video) Real Work Behaves More Like a Fabric Than a Cascade Work, strategy, and feedback move in all directions—not just top-down

Wardley maps GPS of Tech, Pace layering — rate of change

world of expert generalist — message on LinkedIn

Map of GitHub

The Art of the Micro-Impression: Forging Genuine Rapport with Senior Leaders Building strong professional relationships with senior leaders is achieved through small, consistent, and genuine "micro-impressions" rather than grand gestures. It offers practical strategies such as asking unique, well-researched questions and effectively managing interaction loops to make these brief encounters meaningful and memorable.

WTF is an AI Product Manager? We often say that when the product fails, it's the Product Manager's fault. But when it succeeds, it's thanks to the team effort

A Proven AI PRD Template by Miqdad Jaffer (Product Lead @ OpenAI) An Amazing AI PRD Template with key questions and answers.

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How to Write a Product Strategy in 1 Day / 1 Week / 1 Month

Your Guide to AI Product Strategy

Intelligence on Earth Evolved Independently at Least Twice

The AI Copilot for Product Managers

AI Junior PM pitch deck illustrated

The effect of ChatGPT on students’ learning performance, learning perception, and higher-order thinking: insights from a meta-analysis - Humanities and Social Sciences Communications - AI is a multiplier. Worse - worsens, Good - greatifies.

What Successful Product Organizations Have in Common Doing the work is real superpower

Treat your company as a product The article doesnt talk much about company as product but does mention meeting as a product. Being result oriented helps!

Designing Frameworks with Clarity The art of framework design -- you can design your own framework as well!

🛠️ How to Turn Company OKRs into Product OKRs

(3) How to Use GenAI with OKRs (Without Letting It Think for You) | LinkedIn

FAQ: OKR Not Working in My Company

Shape Up: Stop Running in Circles and Ship Work that Matters

Product Discovery with Internal Customers - All Things Product with Teresa & Petra

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Why Your Child Can’t Stop Using That App (A Game Designer’s Warning)

AI Agent to create and send newsletters A good use case for building this in Gensh -- its has capabilities of actions, integrations, context and services. Gensh can perhaps use a similar terminology. [[05.Q1 Gensh]]

why user's dont care about product strategy? Sushi Pizza syndrome

Activation, retention, and abandonment funnel analysis — Reforge

Y-Combinator backed French startup Parallel raises $3.5M for AI healthcare agent Parallel’s AI agent reads clinical documentation, identifies the appropriate codes, and inputs them directly into hospital systems. This enables hospitals to streamline operations while improving accuracy and freeing up medical staff for more valuable work.

What to Do Take care of people and the world, and make good new things! Be like Archimedes, Cicero, Raymond Chandler -- good new science or art. Make amazing things like Newton did, even if its doesn't have any immediate practical effect. .

Isomorphic Labs, Google’s A.I. Drug Business, Raises $600 Million Drug Discovery and Cursor raising $105 million

Isomorphic Labs, Google’s A.I. Drug Business, Raises $600 Million Drug Discovery and Cursor raising $105 million

Taxo - Automate Healthcare Administration Fastest and most accurate data extraction for healthcare, raises $5million from YC.

The Security Research Product Function [[06.Q2 CIS-60]]

How can engineers and PMs collaborate effectively?

Moving To Higher Ground: Product Management In The Age of AI

Uizard Autodesigner 2.0 | AI UI Design Generator | Uizard Design with AI

OpenAI.fm

Sword Health, the Hinge Health S1, and me – The Health Care Blog

Which companies produce the best product managers

Which companies accelerate PM careers most

Strategy Mapping with Simon Wardley - Define Tomorrow 2018 Sent link to lunchclub

The 5 Most Difficult Employees (And How To Actually Handle Them) Managing people is hard, some tips from the field in this blog.

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HealthTechNerd Reports - Walgreens Going Private for 10 billion!

AI blurring lines between PMs and Engineers - Humanloop insights

How do product strategy?

How to build trust as an engineering leader The trust equation -- delegate after active listening!

Thread by @Austen "All of us humans are going to be glorified PMs"

Thread by @aakashg0 Google PM Questions

HealthCare AI Startups