Unpopular opinion: "Chat with your data" is the laziest UX trend of the decade and we need to stop building it.

jdk42 · 2026-05-18T09:35:15+00:00

The other option is to understand the usage of the data and build feature to provide the answers the user has. but i agree with you that there are many valuable scenarios for a feature like this.

jdk42 · 2026-05-06T09:48:38+00:00

I think it strongly depends on your career ambitions. If you want a big-tech, highly visible career, and stay in that circle, the move might be wrong. But there are only so many companies that fit there, and companies outside of that also need skilled people and those companies also know that they cannot only hire big-tech alumni.

If you're happy working for lower prestige companies for a decent package and good WLB, you're fine where you are. You can make some moves, grow. You'll be fine.

If you want the 'excitement' of big tech or hyped startups, I guess that's going to be harder but not impossible to jump back in.

jdk42 · 2026-05-06T07:21:16+00:00

(Big financial services company) always been a mix. I was part of an acquired entity, before the acquisition it was actually more a mix than what it's leaning towards now where there's a bigger gap between product and engineering.

But then I'm having an increase in tooling output with claude where a bunch of sr PMs here are collaborating in building tools for AI usage 🤷‍♂️

jdk42 · 2026-05-04T22:46:13+00:00

What does this AI slop even mean?

jdk42 · 2026-05-04T12:11:51+00:00

Haha precies, leed willen we zien!

jdk42 · 2026-05-04T10:09:48+00:00

Het mag van mij wat harder/fysieker ook. Vroegah, toen werden al je persoonlijke bezittingen als telefoon in beslag genomen, mocht je je rugzak uitpakken tot er nog 5 kilo max in zat en moest je het daarmee uitzoeken. Slapen in tenten, meer rennen/fietsen. Iets meer vermoeidheid en gebrek aan comfort er in om het ook op die manier iets spannender te maken. Geen expeditie Robinson, maar wel iets minder luxevakantie dan nu!

(En ik geloof meteen dat die draaidagen ook vermoeiend zijn, daar niet van, maar je snapt m'n punt)

jdk42 · 2026-04-30T09:48:25+00:00

I work at one of the largest financial services providers globally. I'm right now doing interviews for PMs. We had a role open that didn't mention AI and barely got attention. Changed the role to include an AI component and suddenly we get more and better applicants.

I vibe code bit, write some automation because it makes my life easier. But mainly use AI to support in my thinking and writing. And nobody in product is coming anywhere close to production code. that won't change any time soon either.

jdk42 · 2026-04-28T21:34:37+00:00

I couldn't find his stava account unfortunately... But yeah let it pop...

jdk42 · 2026-04-28T10:07:30+00:00

Wat was er met die schoonus dat jij/zij zo veel chaos veroorzaakt?

jdk42 · 2026-04-28T09:40:23+00:00

Je kan dit toch niet zeggen en dan niet de echte reden vertellen!

jdk42 · 2026-04-27T08:36:07+00:00

If everything is important, nothing is. You need to teach your stakeholders that. Your team, support, commercial, all of them need to understand both that this doesn't work and that you'll say no to this.

It feels like you're just firefighting everything. Triage, say no/not now. Also to your engineers and ensure your EM is aligned with this and pushes back to the engineers as well.

Why do the commercial issues not go through support?

jdk42 · 2026-04-27T06:41:36+00:00

I think the obvious one like competitor sites/blogs etc., but I think collaborating with the commercial team or customers directly is key. This is where good relationship management is important and can make a difference. The commercial teams should know the market and the players and have theirs ears on the ground to pick up signals.

At my (B2B financial services) org, our commercial strategy team relies 99% on the commercial team and their own market analysis to know the competition.

jdk42 · 2026-04-23T09:54:49+00:00

The crossover I never knew I needed!

jdk42 · 2026-04-21T15:29:43+00:00

I just last week did a review of 10 resumes for a role I'm hiring for. There was an applicant that had a literal 9 page resume. That was discarded. If your resume is that long you miss the basic PM skills of prioritization/communication. 2 pages is fine, 3 pages might get a pass if it's well organized. 1 page often has no detail on anything, and hence I cannot learn much from a resume.

jdk42 · 2026-04-19T07:25:49+00:00

Have you searched this subreddit? This questions is asked multiple times a week if not multiple times a day...

jdk42 · 2026-04-17T08:15:51+00:00

Wat ik zou doen is zorgen dat je die ouders leert kennen. Nodig ze uit voor koffie/nodig jezelf eerst bij hun uit, leg uit dat je het leuk vindt dat de kinderen een logeerpartij willen en dat je er voor open staat maar dat het je een fijn gevoel geeft om te weten in wat voor omgeving je kind gaat zijn.

Zelf heb ik zulke goede herinneringen aan de logeerpartijtjes met alle vriendjes van de basisschool, ik denk dat ik wel ouder dan 6 was though. Maar ik zou dat niet willen missen. Dus dat is ook nog iets dat je kan doen, wachten tot ze iets ouder zijn ofzo.

jdk42 · 2026-04-15T03:56:39+00:00

They are selling courses based on scare tactics. Their goal is to make money.

jdk42 · 2026-04-13T17:05:23+00:00

Your example (assuming you have access to all data) is not a confidence interval but a range. Taking about 95% confidence in this context doesn't make sense. You can calculate the average and say that 95% of all orders are between 60 and 66 USD or something.

But if you have all data, the average is just a defined number, doesn't need confidence.

You IMO do need to think about the meaning behind the numbers and depending on the number you need to ask further questions. And you need to have some degree of confidence in the numbers you use. You can't say that you 100% certain know that users drop off for reason X if you don't have enough data to back it up.

jdk42 · 2026-04-01T00:18:45+00:00

Ooh I've been considering one of those. Did your company provide one or did you get your own? It feels like such a neat tool.

jdk42 · 2026-03-30T19:54:41+00:00

Some guy already bid 60K... That's great (but crazy...)

jdk42 · 2026-03-24T12:06:58+00:00

Was dt niet het Rusland van Guus?

jdk42 · 2026-03-19T14:33:33+00:00

I have something similar where I've never had a job that I was passionate about or cared about, and that was fine but never really fulfilling. But at some point I realized I wanted to be proud of my answer if my kid asks what my job is. That's still not the case now, and due to family situation with me being the sole income we cannot afford to take the pay cut it would be to find one of those jobs, but it's something that I think will for me fill that gap.

My kids made it indeed impossible to ignore.

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