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shannadige.com

Fast is a design decision

Building a site has never been cheaper, but making it fast still costs attention and your user’s resources.

apeatling.com

Your product is not the center of the universe

Established products have a problem. They assume they’re the center of someone’s universe, and everything should feed through them.

newsletter.posthog.com

38 things we’ve learned about building AI products

Lessons from four years of building AI products at PostHog.

armstr.ng

Worth building

What changes when a tool doesn’t have to pay for itself.

hitesh.in

Google has the best AI money can buy. Its products still feel broken.

Google’s AI-era products keep breaking an old trust contract with users, and the model isn’t the reason.

blog.exe.dev

Caring vs. knowing

Thoughts on how to DIY sustainably.

er-certification.statichost.page

The Enshittification Resistant Software

A self certification process with a somewhat official blessing.

liamnugent.me

The most important product decision is what you don’t build

Ask a team what they shipped this year and you’ll get a list. Ask what they killed and the room goes quiet.

sjg.io

AI is making us build too much

AI has made code, tests, policy, documentation, and organisational machinery almost free to produce. It has not made any of them free to own.

worseonpurpose.com

Why products get worse

Where quality lives, and how companies drain it from your products without a metric moving.

blog.mastykarz.nl

Your product didn’t get worse

Customers still like your product and keep renewing. Meanwhile, their expectations may be changing in ways your usual signals won’t reveal.

nyn.me

The singular viable product

Why software built for one is no longer an escape from scale, but its new starting point.

davesresearch.com

A good move is enabling

Don’t build into dead ends: anticipate what happens next.

claude.com

The AI-native SDLC playbook

Anthropic’s stage-by-stage playbook for the AI-native SDLC: how teams plan, design, build, test, deploy, and maintain software with Claude.

how.complexsystems.fail

How complex systems fail

Latent flaws, hindsight bias, and operator adaptation. Offering product teams a framework for system safety.

nngroup.com

A concrete definition of “Product Sense”

Predicting which product decisions will succeed based on patterns learned through experimentation — and knowing when those patterns apply.

vaughntan.org

Against bigness

Organisations say they want innovation but keep killing it. The problem is the organisational decision-making machinery.

uxdesign.cc

The flaw is the feature

What is polish actually worth?

antmurphy.me

Exploring vs Exploiting

The two modes of product discovery.

slack.design

How I validated design decisions before writing production code

We can finally generate evidence before committing to anything.