If you're building a crafted product that uses AI to generate work on someone's behalf, you've probably seen it: what it produces doesn't meet the bar the rest of the product sets. A model drifts toward the generic middle of its training data, and that's not where your product lives. What closed the gap for me wasn't better prompts. It was giving the model my judgment, not just my topic: the standards, the calls I'd make, the things I'd never ship. I've come to think that context, built up, compounds across a team, and that the tools knowledge workers use should help people invest in it, not promise they can skip it. New post on how I got here, and the question I can't answer yet: whether it holds at a company of hundreds with a product in millions of hands. t15n.io/where-taste-drops-ou…

A popular prediction says the UI will be dead in two years, replaced by AI agents. I don't think that's right, and not because I doubt the agents. I just don't see the interface and the agent as rivals. They're two ways to do the same work: hands on the keyboard yourself, or describing what you want to a fast colleague you trust. As the colleague takes the low-judgment work, what's left in the app is the judgment you'd never hand off, so it matters more, not less. Having both layers doesn't shrink the design work, it widens the canvas. If you're adding an agentic layer to your app, I'm keen to know: how do you carry the opinion and care you put in your app onto the agent? t15n.io/the-keyboard-and-the…

Smplrspace started as a developer tool. For years, getting your data onto a floor plan meant an engineer writing code. Now data analysts and BI teams just drag and drop. No code. I didn't expect to find this as amazing as I do. Kind of feels magical, even for me.

Guided reviews looks exactly like the diff experience I’ve been waiting for 🤩

Working with Claude has come to feel less like using a tool and more like working with a colleague. The part that doesn't transfer is accountability. The same care that sets up a colleague for good work — the brief, the why, the constraints that aren't visible from the outside — sets up the agent for success. But the output still has my name on it. This reminds me of a rule from teams I've led: when a bug ships to production, responsibility sits with the PR reviewer, not the coder. It goes where the catch should have happened. With an agent, the rule still holds. Whether the output is any good, and of any use, is mine to answer for. t15n.io/the-colleague-i-cant…

Visualization isn't a presentation layer at the end of a process. It's a thinking layer at the start. I spent fifteen years answering this question in different rooms, and didn't realize it was the same one until I stopped to look. t15n.io/fifteen-years

CRE keeps trying to solve data fragmentation by adding more tools. The fragmentation is in the data, not the tools. Smplrspace is the coordinate layer the tools run on.

Got this from @npmjs. My side's been ready for months. One problem: trusted publishing doesn't work with reusable GitHub Actions workflows. Open since 2025, no movement: github.com/npm/documentation… Are they actually fixing this, or just rotating tokens?

I've just been rickrolled by @claudeai 🫠 Working on some internal tooling to share HTML (hi @trq212 😉) and automatically convert it to markdown. Asked Claude to generate a rich markdown page with a YouTube embed, and boom. It got me.

Hey @WakaTime, do you have an MCP server? That'd be awesome 🤩

Here's probably the best Claude Cowork tutorial under 25 minutes. It is by Tina Huang ( ex-Meta data scientist).

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The most female-led product org in tech right now: Chief Product Officer: Ami Vora Claude Code/Cowork Head of Product: Cat Wu Claude Code/Cowork Head of Eng: Fiona Fung Claude Platform Head of Product: Angela Jiang Claude Platform Head of Eng: Katelyn Lesse Research Head of Product: Dianne Penn President: Daniela Amodei (Also, the fastest-growing company in history)

Excel turned 40 last year. It's still the backbone of most #CRE operations and we're not here to fight it. 📊 Smplrspace reporting now exports to #Excel. Your reports output, computed statistics, leaderboards, and more, ready to build on or feed into your own workflows.

It took us over 3 years to get to 100M sqft, we've just done another 100M in less than 11 months 🚀

This is huge. And it’s not just for code. Bring got like versioning to any data structure you manage. I’m gonna have such a good time 🤩

Wow 👀

The code artist is back!