A product manager's core job is to create products - not just facilitate, manage projects, or maintain backlogs. As AI and accessible tools empower more creators, PMs who don't drive product creation risk falling behind in a shifting industry.
Effective PMs who excel at finding flaws can be excluded from strategy if their assertiveness is perceived as rigidity. To gain influence, they should shift from solely catching issues to guiding outcomes by emphasizing shared goals, fostering team risk identification, and prioritizing influence, thus becoming seen as strategists.
2025.05.30·amycmitchell.substack.com·5 min read·TLDR Product The idea of a perfect product team or process is a myth. Success depends on context and constant evolution. Real product success involves driving business value, increasing influence, improving user outcomes, and advancing your career, despite imperfections. Focusing on these areas, rather than chasing an ideal, leads to greater impact.
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To be a successful solopreneur in product and growth, focus on attracting high-value clients through targeted content and networking. Offer skills aligned with your passion, identify gaps, and refine expertise. Monetize by specializing, understanding your value, and respecting your time.
Performative CYA behavior can hurt your professional presence, even if it's well-intentioned. Overly formal or deferential language can make you seem insecure and prevent open communication, so it's better to speak with calm confidence and show ownership rather than seeking constant validation.
Banks now compete through apps, where poor UX can cost customers. To stay ahead of fintechs, they must go beyond digitization, using AI and authentic branding to deliver personalized, trustworthy experiences, and make UX a core leadership focus.
Truly impactful AI becomes essential by working reliably in the background, not through showy demonstrations.
In a crisis, leaders must quickly find the cause, define what's "good enough," align the team, and act fast.
NASA is using graphs and LLMs to create a People Knowledge Graph. This graph-powered system is built on Memgraph and runs on AWS. It connects employees, projects, and skills to facilitate subject matter expert discovery, project similarity analysis, and real-time organizational insights. NASA ingests data from various sources, extracts skills using LLMs, and uses a RAG-based chatbot interface for querying the graph in natural language.
React error boundaries are not simply `try/catch` blocks for components, but a declarative way to handle errors within the UI. Error boundaries, implemented as class components, catch errors during rendering, lifecycle methods, and constructors, displaying fallback UIs instead of crashing the app. However, they don't catch errors in event handlers or asynchronous code, which means that methods like `react-error-boundary` are needed to surface these errors.
This dev had an experience fixing a complex bug in Redis using Vector Sets and compared their problem-solving abilities to those of Gemini 2.5 Pro. While the LLM provided some helpful suggestions, the dev ended up coming up with a more creative and efficient solution involving a fixed accumulator and murmur-128 hashing to detect corrupted links. Human creativity and out-of-the-box thinking are still better than LLMs for complex problem-solving.
The "ugliness" of this dev's website is what makes it uniquely theirs. They designed the site with chaotic elements and unconventional CSS tricks to achieve a "used bookstore" feel, prioritizing personal expression over conventional aesthetics.
RedwoodSDK is a React framework for building server-side web applications on Cloudflare. It has a standards-based router with middleware and interruptors for controlling requests and responses. It also provides built-in integration with Cloudflare services like D1, R2, and Workers, along with local emulation through Miniflare.
ForesightJS is a JavaScript library that improves website performance by predicting user intent through mouse movement analysis. It does data prefetching before clicks or hovers to reduce unnecessary prefetch requests and improve perceived loading speed.
Angular v20 has been released. This release stabilizes reactivity APIs like effect and toSignal, improves debugging with Angular DevTools and Chrome DevTools integration, and improves the developer experience with style guide updates and language service support. New experimental APIs, such as resource streaming and httpResource, are introduced for managing asynchronous state.
Builder.ai was a startup valued at $1.3 billion and backed by Microsoft. It collapsed in May after being accused of misleading investors by overstating its AI capabilities and relying primarily on Indian coders behind the scenes. The company's business model, which promised AI-driven app development for non-engineers, was revealed to be largely a marketing gimmick, leading to inflated revenue projections and unsustainable expansion.
LLM 0.26 introduces support for tools, allowing LLMs to access external functionalities via the LLM CLI tool and Python library. These tools are accessible through plugins or ad-hoc Python functions. This addition allows for the creation of "agents" by enabling tools in a loop.
During a hurricane in 2024, this dev reverse-engineered the Waffle House website to create an unofficial "Waffle House Index" map tracking restaurant closures as an indicator of disaster severity. The website unexpectedly gained traction, catching the attention of Waffle House's corporate team and even political commentators. Waffle House requested the author to cease and desist due to trademark infringement.
An intro to calling Python functions from within a C program that covers setup, initialization, memory management, and argument passing.
Memvid is a Python library that improves AI memory by encoding text into videos for efficient storage and lightning-fast semantic search.
This dev documents their experience learning the C3 programming language, highlighting its features, strengths, and weaknesses, and comparing it to languages like C, Zig, and Rust while building a basic calculator to showcase its capabilities.
Nova is a JavaScript and WebAssembly engine written in Rust that lets Rust projects execute JavaScript code.
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The next Apple operating systems will be identified by year rather than version number. The change is aimed at bringing consistency to the company's branding and making things less confusing to customers and developers. The next operating systems will be known as iOS 26, iPadOS 26, macOS 26, watchOS 26, tvOS 26, and visionOS 26. The shift will be announced at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference on June 9.
2025.05.29·bloomberg.com·3 min read·TLDR Telegram and xAI have partnered to integrate Grok into apps available on Telegram's platform for one year. xAI paid $300 million in cash and equity as part of the deal. Telegram will also earn 50% of the revenue from xAI subscriptions purchased through the app. Grok was already available to Telegram's premium users early this year, but it seems the chatbot is now going to be made available to all users.
2025.05.29·techcrunch.com·1 min read·TLDR Scientists have created contact lenses that allow people to see in the dark with the help of infrared light. The invention could allow colorblind people to see colors again. The contacts don't require an external power source and wearers can perceive multiple infrared wavelengths even with their eyes closed. They aren't yet able to capture fine details, so the scientists are working on a version with more precise spatial resolution and higher sensitivity.
2025.05.29·futurism.com·2 min read·TLDR The beta-amyloid protein has been a prime suspect in the pathology of Alzheimer's for many decades. However, there was a period where some papers made a form of amyloid appear to be able to induce disease-like symptoms all by itself in rodent models. Those works turned out not to be reproducible, and there is strong evidence of deliberately faked work in those papers. While those particular papers are fake, they don't discount the decades of legitimate research on the topic.
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2025.05.29·invest.pacaso.com·Sponsor·TLDR All of Simon Willison's code has automated tests. This massively de-risks his use of large language models. He uses AI to write code and then proves that code works with tests, then uses AI to refactor the code until it looks good, keeping the tests green the whole time. Programmers who find the technology to be more of a hindrance than a help in their work may need to check the health of their test suites.
2025.05.29·simonwillison.net·1 min read·TLDR A notebook is the most important tool to have as a software developer. While writing code is a necessary part of the job, more important than writing that code is figuring out what code to write. Writing and sketching are powerful tools for thinking through problems and they can help turn vague abstract ideas into tangible artifacts. Using a notebook also leaves behind a copy of your thoughts and the process of how you reached them.
2025.05.29·hamatti.org·3 min read·TLDR OpenAI and a group of American technology giants recently won a deal to build one of the world's largest artificial intelligence data centers in Abu Dhabi. While the deal was being made, Elon Musk worked hard to make sure it included his own AI startup, warning the group that the plan had no chance of presidential approval unless xAI was included in the deal. Trump and US officials reviewed the deal terms and decided to move forward. The project, Stargate UAE, was ultimately announced on May 22.
2025.05.29·links.tldrnewsletter.com·6 min read·TLDR As humans, we like to think our minds are somehow at the top of what's possible, but it is now pretty clear this isn't true. Artificial neural networks allow us to get a more systematic sense of what different scales of brains can do. As systems get more complex, they may start using abstractions and higher-order constructs that we are basically blind to.
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2025.05.29·invest.pacaso.com·Sponsor·TLDR A merger between Tesla and xAI would mark a turning point in Elon Musk's push to transform Tesla into a leader in real-world artificial intelligence.
2025.05.29·teslanorth.com·2 min read·TLDR Samsung Galaxy S25 owners can sign up for the Android 16 beta by opening the Samsung Members app - the beta sign-up should be right on the main landing page.
2025.05.29·arstechnica.com·4 min read·TLDR Developers can now sign up for a private preview of the Windows Update orchestration platform.
2025.05.29·theverge.com·2 min read·TLDR An AI scraper can try to recognize a JavaScript Proof-of-Work system, but this is a losing game for several reasons.
2025.05.29·utcc.utoronto.ca·2 min read·TLDR Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, says AI could wipe out half of all entry-level white-collar jobs and that AI companies and governments need to stop sugar-coating what's coming.
2025.05.29·links.tldrnewsletter.com·14 min read·TLDR We are now in the 'Who Cares Era', where completely disposable things are shoddily produced for people to mostly ignore.
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DeepSeek released a “trial” update to R1 on Hugging Face without providing any details on the new version. The update came just hours before Nvidia's Q1 earnings report.
2025.05.29·techcrunch.com·1 min read·TLDR AI Mistral's Codestral Embed is a new code-focused embedding model that surpasses top alternatives in retrieval benchmarks. It offers customizable dimensions and precision levels for optimized storage-performance trade-offs.
2025.05.29·mistral.ai·8 min read·TLDR AI Meta's artificial intelligence assistant has one billion monthly active users across the company's family of apps. The company recently released a stand-alone app for the tool. It plans to keep growing the product before building a business around it. There will be opportunities to either insert paid recommendations or offer a subscription service.
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