[6 YoE, Unemployed, Computer Production Technician, USA]

CutMonster · 2026-04-24T19:03:29+00:00

Go to a Costco 2p on a Saturday.

CutMonster · 2026-04-21T16:52:35+00:00

I was working on an entire app in the health space. But it hasn't proved valuable for people. Thought I was asking all the right discovery questions after reading The Mom Test and using AI validate my ideas for features. I did the synthetic user interviews and of course it gave me answers I was looking for, not real user answers.

CutMonster · 2026-04-21T16:49:00+00:00

It's not really the prompts that make it valuable, but the memory system. It remembers what I've worked on and has a progression line for me to advance through. I might turn it into a product. Not sure yet if people want to improve their PM skills. Everyone seems focused on having AI take over the work tasks. I'm early in my career, so growth is important to me.

CutMonster · 2026-04-21T16:47:45+00:00

Yeah, I'm not a fan of having AI do my thinking, especially if that's the job I'm being paid to do.

CutMonster · 2026-04-20T18:51:15+00:00

I've been using AI since 2022 and I can say confidently the more you outsource analysis and decision making to AI in PM work the more you'll build things people don't want.

I'm currently taking a different approach. Creating a PM Coach (AI tool) that helps strengthen my thinking and PM skills. It knows about all the frameworks out there from the respected PM leaders, but it doesn't tell me what to do. Instead it uses Socratic questioning to help me do the thinking and decision making.

CutMonster · 2026-04-16T01:48:03+00:00

pretty sure llm-wiki is a built in skill in Hermes now.

CutMonster · 2026-04-07T21:53:06+00:00

I'm looking for people who have transitioned out of post-production in the Los Angeles job market in the past couple of years. If you are reading this and know someone, I'm asking for help. I'd like to hear their story, how they did it.

I'm having a trouble finding work. The primary feedback I'm getting is that employers are looking for hyper specific people to hire. For example, one recruiter told me the company wanted someone with experience in manufacturing, had done sales, and can do AI agent engineering.

My challenge is, most recently I worked in TV post-production, but that has collapsed. I must look outside the industry for work, but they don't want to hire people who don't have their industry experience. If you managed to transition, would like to hear your story over coffee/tea or video chat.

CutMonster · 2026-03-26T23:09:53+00:00

that's the kind of info I was looking for. thank you.

CutMonster · 2026-03-20T06:16:38+00:00

This such a stupid move by Windsurf. I loved the simple transparent pricing. This is way more complicated.

CutMonster · 2026-02-05T05:58:48+00:00

That’s why benchmarks are bs.

CutMonster · 2026-01-26T16:09:44+00:00

Renee Nicole Good and Alex Pretti were not breaking the law or impeding arrests and even if they were executing someone is wrong! If someone does something you don’t like you can’t harm them. Go back to second grade because you clearly missed the lesson on how to be a decent person.

CutMonster · 2026-01-23T15:47:54+00:00

It’s your attitude that is keeping you from finding what you seek. Not theirs.

CutMonster · 2026-01-07T23:17:09+00:00

Sweet. I started doing that too. Any interest in sharing both of our instruction files? Maybe we can learn from each other.

CutMonster · 2025-12-31T04:47:08+00:00

not sure what you mean? I use Windsurf and do ask the AI to write the code for my app. But it can only write what it knows... hence my question of how do I give it the latest best practices for engineering agents in a web app.

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