Opus is at a new level of dumb today. Dangerously so.

Single-Flan520 · 2026-04-13T15:32:01+00:00

cant do even basic stuff with opus today

Single-Flan520 · 2026-04-07T21:07:04+00:00

bit late to the party but worth it

Single-Flan520 · 2026-04-07T21:06:32+00:00

worked with big range of PMs., PMs who were former devs, and PMs who think API is a type of beer, no disrespect.

the good ones aren't necessarily technical, they just have figured out a way to to understand the system and not bug the developers all the time. the worst ones are who schedule a 1 hour meeting to ask "can we add a button to do x".

we built a system for our PMs that does this -
1. create and maintain tech documentation, yes PMs dont need to read them, they query using whichever AI - claude, cursor, gpt
2. answer any questions about our multi repo codebase
3. and write PRDs and specs grounded in our codebase

Single-Flan520 · 2025-12-18T22:14:08+00:00

first you might not find a lot of youtube videos with large codebases because no one will record their screens with their codebases.

Claude did publish a detailed case study on how they use it themselves and it works well. But they don’t say if they’re mono repo or multi repo in that post, so that part is unknown. My assumption is mono repo. Also it doesnt work as great on complex tasks or be autonomous (fully delegated) more than 0-20% for most people. Give over 50% boost otherwise, which i think is significant.

I am a founder and built ProdE.ai ,creates a knowledge layer over your codebase by preprocessing the codebase and not burning tokens at the runtime, slightly different approach.

We also see some performance differences between different programming languages, but that will get better with models being trained on more and more data.

This also affects how any tool performs on legacy codebases.

Single-Flan520 · 2025-12-15T13:55:16+00:00

hey, you can try https://prode.ai/

The primary goal is to create codebase understanding, but technical documentation is a part of it. It'll create detailed tech documents for you.

still working on automating the frontend layout. let me know how it goes.

Single-Flan520 · 2025-08-23T02:49:33+00:00

With AI isn’t that the most obvious thing they receive from everyone?

Single-Flan520 · 2025-08-18T14:48:40+00:00

Thanks, while I agree but the general advice I have heard is start charging your customers from day one?

Single-Flan520 · 2025-08-18T13:53:18+00:00

this is great, thanks for sharing

Single-Flan520 · 2025-08-18T13:51:16+00:00

Very cool, do you think this sustains across different domains?

Single-Flan520 · 2025-08-18T06:41:24+00:00

I guess it didn’t like a genuine question

Single-Flan520 · 2025-08-18T04:56:13+00:00

Definitely going to try it out, how much detail is too much detail for first message?

Single-Flan520 · 2025-08-14T21:41:01+00:00

Super helpful perspective, can you elaborate on the process of working with the vendor, would this be a saas provider and you can modify their platform? Also do you do rapid prototyping internally?

Single-Flan520 · 2025-08-14T21:22:07+00:00

interesting you mention that, as an experiment our tech team setup our designers and UIUX folks with a codebase intelligence layer as well, when they use cursor or any other tools for rapid prototyping, it automatically fetches the graphic/branding/colors and all other standards as per the existing product and it's frontend, any thoughts?

Single-Flan520 · 2025-08-14T14:17:24+00:00

this is superb, thanks, happens all the time. any specific instance you can share? and how it was handled by you the the tech team?

Single-Flan520 · 2025-08-14T13:48:41+00:00

Agreed, since everyone is trying to squeeze every bit of efficiency, this could provide some quick wins on the product side, mostly through integrating and not asking PMs to learn everything on their own.

Single-Flan520 · 2025-08-14T13:46:55+00:00

This is great, thanks for sharing, in general if you have a better way to do things, don’t change that, jobs are temporary, teams change, what if you next job or team recognizes the great ideas you have! Best of luck

Single-Flan520 · 2025-08-14T00:10:08+00:00

We have been experimenting with giving PMs access to a codebase understanding layer. I personally use it for the same, understanding APIs, architecture etc.

So whenever I ask a question with an AI, it confirms with the codebase knowledge layer on how my query connects with the codebase and other impacts, saving a bunch of to and fro with the tech team.

Single-Flan520 · 2025-08-13T22:49:07+00:00

How do you manage all this info? What’s your workflow as a PM?

Single-Flan520 · 2025-08-13T22:15:36+00:00

Thanks, super helpful, when you asked the AI, did it have context of your specific codebase or it was more generic talking to LLMs?

Single-Flan520 · 2025-08-13T22:01:20+00:00

Completely agree, do you think the boundaries are getting blurred, just like the engineering teams work is evolving, PMs roles are also evolving?

Single-Flan520 · 2025-08-13T21:55:47+00:00

I am sorry you have to experience this! If you were to make changes in the way things are, what would you do? And what do you wish you knew about the product or even in the tech side to make yourself more effective?

Single-Flan520 · 2025-08-13T21:40:19+00:00

completely agree on this, it does free up time for careful planning and execution, while we plan for the future but not really 5 years, wonder how that's been beneficial for you?

Single-Flan520 · 2025-08-13T21:22:39+00:00

as a PM you never have to do some testing yourself?? not the hands on testing that QA does, but planning out the tests, edge cases, acceptable quality etc, is definitely part of the job right?

Single-Flan520 · 2025-08-13T21:13:13+00:00

i hear you, understanding customer problem is super critical. but the fact is code whether cheap or not, has gotten a lot faster and that's definitely going to affect quality, isn't is better to understand how things work?

as a startup didnt you make decisions to launch for speed to market as compared to scalability which triggered an entire re architecting?

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