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Our new process: 1. Sit and chat about what we need to build, doing research with Deep Research as we go. 2. Have AI record everything and turn it into a spec. 3. Clean up the spec, adding any design requirements / other nuances. 4. Have Devin code it up. 5. QA, merge, (auto-)deploy to prod.
- [Sahil Lavingia](https://x.com/GeoffreyHuntley/status/1887495898822787189?ref=ghuntley.com) (Founder of Gumroad)
The Future Belongs to Idea Guys Who Can Just Do Things
Geoffrey Huntley
The heartbeat of product discovery, the validated learning loop, is making sense of what we understand, exposing risks and building a test, testing, and then making sense of what we’ve learned.
The Continuous Product Improvement Cycle
jpattonassociates.com
McCracken’s “grow by 50 percent” is classic bad strategy. It is the kind of nonsense that passes for strategy in too many companies. First, he was setting a goal, not designing a way to deal with his company’s challenge. Second, growth is the outcome of a successful strategy, and attempts to engineer growth are exercises in magical thinking. In this case, the growth SGI engineered was accomplished by rolling up a number of other firms whose workstation strategies had also run out of steam.
Good Strategy/Bad Strategy
Richard Rumelt
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