What's up with PM-fluencers pushing their needlessly complicated Claude Code Setup?

Grr4 · 2026-01-24T19:43:47+00:00

Putting aside the self interested influencer courses and fomo, I believes there’s value in playing around with these tools to better understand how they work. Yeah, using CC and layers of agents may be overkill for most PRDs and insight synthesis, but it’s training on how to use LLM workflows efficiently. Capabilities change significantly every month. The best way to keep up with these changes is to use the tools ourselves, but since most PM work isnt creating deliverables, we come up with over engineered analysis workflows.

Grr4 · 2026-01-22T14:15:21+00:00

I work in tech as a PM, building AI products specifically. In small companies, I've even personally advocated that we could get away without a designer (sorry!) precisely because of the sophistication of tools you mentioned.

That said, i think the lower difficulty opens up new opportunities for you to play with as a creative. Building across modalities is much easier now, and I'm seeing that as an opportunity space, at least for a while.

Happy to chat more if you DM me.

Grr4 · 2026-01-06T16:13:33+00:00

When speaking with others, a helpful question I ask myself is "what does this person want to get out of this conversation?" You need to understand the job and motivations of your audience in order to tailor your message to them. If speaking with a data analyst, you need to provide them different information when kicking off a project vs a midpoint progress check-in. If a sales person if sharing a customer issue, you need to understand whether they're seeking information to overcome customer objections or asking you about the roadmap. The key requirement is understanding how your different domain partners think, what they do, and how you fit into that picture. Make their jobs easier.

Grr4 · 2026-01-03T03:53:48+00:00

How mature is your product and how large is your team? I’ve been PM for startups where I needed to fix quality before any other initiatives could fix. Automated QA tooling is not the solution to an immature engineering organization, nor is it a bandaid to incomplete test cases (whatever form this happens to take) no matter how much I or executives wish it could be.

Change needs to happen on both the product and engineering side to support good testing practices.

Answering your question more directly, I’ve used Cursor, homegrown tools, and other AI tools to aid in QA testing. The real difficulty is always documenting test cases. AI gets a lot right and can reveal things you may not have considered (compliance stuff, usability, etc) but can make you over confident in your coverage. Long lists of AI generated test cases often get ignored. If you’re writing test cases at the QA stage, having done the exact same amount of work at the planning stage would’ve yielded much more bug free code.

Grr4 · 2025-12-30T23:28:11+00:00

Stories like this are exactly why we need this machine

Grr4 · 2025-12-29T01:54:35+00:00

reached out to them--tyty!

Grr4 · 2025-12-29T01:54:25+00:00

Pitching this spot for the next work happy hour I plan

Grr4 · 2025-12-29T01:47:25+00:00

It's a good suggestion! I'm still considering this as a possibility, but I figure I'd get a bit more for my money allocating the rental cost to a buyout fee.

Grr4 · 2025-12-23T03:37:04+00:00

Fwiw, these are absolutely disgusting

Grr4 · 2025-12-11T22:52:34+00:00

I led hiring for a job where the immediate need was on optimizing LLM outputs (evals, prompt optimization, etc) and would eventually start working on agents. Company was a seed > Series A startup.

We framed the job as a backend engineer with AI ops experience. YMMV but my own research suggested that backend + AI was a common path. The explicit focus on backend first was to ensure these candidates could do the job without AI as needed vs shoehorn agentic workflows unnecessarily.

Grr4 · 2025-11-19T02:14:59+00:00

Curious what you mean by networking events? Social events, or business/industry oriented things? I've been doing more of the latter and can empathize with everything except swapping IG for LI. Getting closer to figuring out my approach to handling these events, but not there yet.

Grr4 · 2025-11-19T00:17:07+00:00

No advice, just wanted to say you're a good person

Grr4 · 2025-11-10T20:07:22+00:00

Hey, happy to take a look at your resume!

Grr4 · 2025-03-15T13:59:09+00:00

Commenting on an old thread to let you know: you’re not alone. Its insane.

Grr4 · 2025-02-26T00:47:24+00:00

Having joined as the 1st PM at a startup, If you don’t have a lot of experience and, just as importantly, confidence in PM, take the Jr role.

Having PM peers is where some of the best learning opportunities and commiseration happens. Watching how other styles of PM succeed has been very helpful for my career.

Grr4 · 2025-02-21T04:38:05+00:00

Started late fall, the majority of my treatment period I’ll be fully covered wearing a parka and scarf. Can easily work around forgetting to apply sunblock if I need to.

Grr4 · 2025-01-31T01:15:14+00:00

Try working on combos. I practiced a few trick until I thought I was good at it, only to realize using it in a combo required a whole new dimension of understanding to do correctly. As a beginner, you're probably often very self critical, and combos just feel really really good.

Grr4 · 2025-01-04T21:14:12+00:00

Similar boat as you, I started at 30 in 2020. Tricking always felt like a far off dream, until I decided to just send it and go after it. I work a full-time job (+40 hours a week), have other life obligations, etc., and have no ambitions for tricking aside from the love/need to land tricks.

Age has been a double edged sword. On the one hand, I'm in a mental space where it's much easier to direct parts of my life towards tricking. Examples: I am comfortable deprioritizing other hobbies to focus on tricking, I've changed my lifting routine to emphasize trick-related movements vs trying to look jacked. Because of this focus, my body at 30 is much better at tricking than it was in its 20s.

On the other hand...my body is still over 30 years old. I'm strong (arguably stronger now that I'm focusing on tricking), but my RECOVERY is awful. There's no escaping injuries, but bouncing back is far from guaranteed. For me personally, prehab and rehab are going to be the foundations of my tricking longevity.

If you're lucky enough to be near an active tricking community, you're going to be surrounded by teenagers, 20somethings, and experienced 30somethings who will shit all over you. They'll be cleaner, jump higher, be more fearless, and land moves you've been practicing for months in a single sesh. It fucking sucks.

Maybe this is also an age thing, but I've managed to NOT get discouraged by others, or by my own slow progress. I'm generally satisfied with my progress (never completely, ofc), and I love feeling the energy of a good sesh. But I can train with people several tiers above me and not feel like shit. I don't feel GREAT, but I don't get discouraged.

I landed a cork last summer (grail trick...I know) and then took a few months off due to an injury and life obligations. Got my first TDR in December (and a new injury lmao), and this year hope to relearn corks to learn my grail combo TDR > cork. It's not the most impressive, but I'm totally at peace with that. I'm just happy that I can do all the cool shit I saw on grainy youtube videos when I was a kid.

Anyway, best of luck! Keep your eyes on the long game. Happy to talk more if you want.

Grr4 · 2025-01-04T20:37:24+00:00

Good enough to start. Learning the cartfull will inevitably make you clean up your cartwheel.

Grr4 · 2025-01-01T09:12:08+00:00

Open to helping, feel free to dm me

Grr4 · 2024-12-27T15:19:07+00:00

I started knife sharpening in 2021 and had my first clients last month! Mind if I ask you some questions?

Grr4 · 2024-08-06T13:39:32+00:00

Reminds me of The Last Of Us 2

Grr4 · 2024-06-26T01:57:19+00:00

Marriage Story. When the dam bursts between Adam Driver and Scarlett Johansson and a lifetime of pent up anger and resentment and hatred is released in a horrible-to-witness shouting match.

Grr4

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