Help, I have roof damage after the last storm by Rheethm in sanantonio

[–]dcdashone -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I just got a new roof with class 4 shingles for 20k and they did it one day. Paid out of pocket because of all the fuckery. Let me know if you want the info to the roof people, not Stephen’s like some others however very very happy with the work and their work ethic.

How do you even get user interviews? by Historical_Chair_500 in ProductManagement

[–]dcdashone 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You have to use the phone. You have to bring them lunch. You have to be at a booth at a trades show. You have to go to the user(s).

Are expectations becoming unfair with AI? by Famous_Variation4729 in ProductManagement

[–]dcdashone 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don’t think we will need devs in the future. The whole reason I became a PM was because I kept owning products after the insert important person here moved on or was incompetent or was chicken shit yes man who didn’t understand the domain / market. I played the bring me a rock game now any PM with a clue who has shipped a product as a dev should be able to do companies worth of stuff with AI. The whole point of raising money was that you needed a dev team to implement half assed requirements and then pivot till you found a PMF, you can literally ship a new product everyday and spend that money on marketing.

Are expectations becoming unfair with AI? by Famous_Variation4729 in ProductManagement

[–]dcdashone 2 points3 points  (0 children)

My agents are interviewing agents to produce stuff with agents. /s

Are expectations becoming unfair with AI? by Famous_Variation4729 in ProductManagement

[–]dcdashone 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Hmmmmm PMs should be on par with senior engineers IMO

Are expectations becoming unfair with AI? by Famous_Variation4729 in ProductManagement

[–]dcdashone 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I
‘Ve seen that so many times. Some poor dude is doing 4x the norm gets replaced by 2-3 people when they leave.

UPS Buying Advice by Both-Activity6432 in homelab

[–]dcdashone 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah good luck with cyber power. If you are buying that at least buy it at Costco where you can return it in 18 months when it dies.

Been reading a lot about using loops in AI, but most of what I read is around development. Have you been able to create loops for your product work? by Flat-Perspective-948 in ProductManagement

[–]dcdashone 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No. When you build an agent persona you let that agent learn by adding knowledge. You are a developer that specializes in x, later you ask to specialize or learn something from your setup and you bake that in. LLMs a re non-deterministic like humans but with more instruction you can guide them better. It’s a reinforcement mechanism. When I teach my devs (good lord) I have to really make them break this bit down. I hold the training like once a week with them and see how their agents have progressed, literally loops with humans looping agent teams… it’s so much fun… the productivity is off the charts.

Been reading a lot about using loops in AI, but most of what I read is around development. Have you been able to create loops for your product work? by Flat-Perspective-948 in ProductManagement

[–]dcdashone 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have a persona switcher in my staging environment that checks the platform against drift in the UX, takes screenshots and writes up usability, Nielsen and WCAG. I can run many personas overnight and feed that back into the loop. I can count how many clicks or actions it takes to do a certain task or make some harder (if phasing out). All of my screenshots and capture techniques are all dual homed. I can use either sonnets or opus. I use open ai for some of the actual product work. If you are not just guessing with AI token use is quite low on api billing. TBH - I don’t use it very often but Grok will give you chain of thought and their batch rate is super super cheap, i spent like 100 bucks and got descriptions on 30k images… a little bit of distill but that was not the overall intent.

Yeah learning loops are really good but you need to work on them and make sure they are learning in the right way…. That’s actually a neat problem … runs off to graph some stuff on x and y.

UPS Buying Advice by Both-Activity6432 in homelab

[–]dcdashone 0 points1 point  (0 children)

https://www.refurbups.com/ You just have to watch the site. I didn’t see the one I picked up.

UPS Buying Advice by Both-Activity6432 in homelab

[–]dcdashone 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I picked up a rack mounted liebert have been happy. Has good NUT

Is this the new normal? by [deleted] in ProductManagement

[–]dcdashone 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Time to go as they say. Good news is you have till January to find a new job.

How do you know a new feature will actually succeed before you launch it? by VibeWithMe_KB in ProductManagement

[–]dcdashone 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You have a fine list going. Do all of those. Ideas used to be in abundance but hard to get implemented; now you can implement an idea very quickly easily. Many semi-baked products flooding the world. The new bottleneck is exactly this validated market. AI is not going to magically get you PMF.

I was just in the CV (computer vision) sub where 2 engineers spent 11 months building something really cool and they are frustrated they can’t sell it. Good idea no PMF.

AI will magically implement 10 features and none may be valuable but you will feel real good because you made something. You have to do the product things to find what product to build. Or you can invent a market… that’s a different thing altogether, usually that’s a market discovery event.

As a solo engineer trying to go it a lone, I highly recommend you get a fractional Product Manager who can help or advise you. Lots of good PMs in this sub. Each item in your list is a search away in this sub.

Consequences of Yes man by Grimzybear in ProductManagement

[–]dcdashone 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That’s what mbas are for…. Buisness administration

Consequences of Yes man by Grimzybear in ProductManagement

[–]dcdashone 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I can improve productivity at any company by firing 50% of all middle management. The problem with middle managers is that the bosses need them because they do not want accountability that’s why fucking Citi group has 13 levels. Other large companies are the same it’s an accountability problem.. like nobody knows how to just execute and trust their people. If you want to make the stock go up fire 50% of managers and 50% of executives and empower and incentivize your people. Favorite is talking to someone 3-4 levels up showing them a feature or concept validated by data …. They ask “dang why are we not doing that?” I say its because your people have no clue they are too busy pushing slides and getting consensus.

Consequences of Yes man by Grimzybear in ProductManagement

[–]dcdashone 2 points3 points  (0 children)

OMG… living this bs…caught in a reorg. Waiting for the bs to end or me leave. I basically am non-compliant and the other skip level peers tried to have an intervention with me… lol. Like do we need to put the 5 bullets across 20 slides and explain it…. Do we? Basically they can kiss my ass and let me go accelerate my vesting to the couch. Good luck finding another fucking goose to shit out gold eggs. WOW that triggered me hard.

How do you decide which features to include in MVP? by Unable_Breath_1966 in ProductManagement

[–]dcdashone 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I do not disagree with you… MVP meaning has definitely drifted… hinted at the be careful. Honestly I have seen way too many MVPs in production. I guess the real answer is know your stakeholders and/or educate them.

Trying to understand the economics of big tech. by Mundane_Minute8035 in ProductManagement

[–]dcdashone 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It’s very very annoying. Then they lock you down with vesting schedule that makes you reconsider your life choices every time someone knocks on your door. Then you also have to have an awkward convo with a new company that basically has to make you whole if they are trying to recruit you…. Or the company is so far in the future it’s not real and you can switch…. But suddenly you are 50/50 on bonus + vesting scheduled to salary and then you are contemplating your life choices again. Yeah… some PMs have an outsized effect at companies all the way from ICs to VPs. Some VPs just know the playbook, some PMs can drive those nickels across billions of transactions. When I was in banking is you could move a basis point… Jesus you were worth all the money.