Using the Ecological Approach to be a Product Manager @hirekai_ai

Joined March 2011
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The Morgen team is excited to reveal something new! Come check it out on ProductHunt ❤️ producthunt.com/products/hir…
1/ Introducing Kai, the AI assistant that doesn't do it all. Every assistant launched this year can book your hotels, plan your wedding, and walk your dog. Kai handles the boring stuff that eats up your day: email, calendar, tasks and meetings. It connects the dots, anticipates what matters and has your back 24/7. Silently working in the background and ready to call you on urgent matters. We built a UI too, because sometimes chatting is slower than clicking a button. Free to try → hirekai.ai
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Danny Hatcher retweeted
Every founder and team lead has two jobs: the one they were hired for, and the one that eats it. We built Kai, an AI executive assistant for the second job. We’re live on Product Hunt today. Come show us some love ❤️ producthunt.com/products/hir…
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Hmm @meetgranola anyone.... I wonder what guidelines/laws there are about these sorts of things 🤔
looks kinda familiar but I just can't put my finger on why
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Danny Hatcher retweeted
looks kinda familiar but I just can't put my finger on why
Day 2.3/ Never worry about remembering what you were saying with that colleague. Just talk your heart out and build up the context to load up into codex to get it all done.
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Last month we (@hirekai_ai) released an experience that looks very similar. For the designers out there... Is there a way to make a meeting note taker notification much different?
ChatGPT now takes meeting notes for you. Install the Meetings plugin in ChatGPT Desktop. Add your own notes or ask questions during the meeting. Docs, files, and people are tagged from your connected apps. Action items are prompts you can send to ChatGPT! Give it a try <3
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Interesting 🤔 Is this for actions you agree with? If AI suggests tasks you disagree with, I assume you wouldn't want them so reject... @hirekai_ai does this for me and schedules them in my day according to my preferences... DISCLAIMER I work on Kai so am biased 😅
If you have a lot of meetings, you need to be doing this: 1. Record every meeting with @meetgranola 2. Connect your Granola account to your @vellum_ai or @bot agent 3. Set a routine where every day, your agent goes through all your transcripts to look for every action item, follow up, or thing you're waiting on from your meetings that day. 4. Have it keep a running list of all of those notes that it surfaces to you each morning to either mark completed or to get done that day.
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Danny Hatcher retweeted
using ai is 30% getting things done and 70% wasting time figuring out how to get ai to do it
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Great question! Something I discussed recently in a video. To me 'note' is information, which is in all our tools EG: email, calendar, tasks, meetings etc... An old email could still be useful, so I keep it.
There are notes in my Obsidian vault that I haven't opened in over a year. For a while that bothered me. But I realized that not every note needs to be continually updated. A finished book note doesn't need daily attention. It did its job the day I brought it into my vault. Stale isn't always a problem to solve. How do you tell the difference between a stale note and a dead one?
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Congratulations! I haven't looked at Clickup in a long time! How would you describe it now?
I’m now a Verified ClickUp Consultant! I can help you save one day a week and be more effective than ever with @ClickUp clickup.com/verified-consult… Gonna spend today getting my profile setup after I do all my dad chores and take my daughter swimming.
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Im not sure how to react 🤔 On one side impressed by: - Consistency - Token use On the other side skeptical on: - Efficiency - Quality My experience with AI has led to more work I never had to do...
What's everyone's @ChatGPT Codex stats looking like?
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Hmm I wonder why @NotionHQ wasn't on the home screen for @MKBHD... Superhuman and TickTick still holding their spots. I saw Notion in an app scroll 😅
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AI worker tools = Notion templates As a @NotionHQ use from before databases, I've watched the journey. Freedom. Confusion. Templates. Consultants. Companies will have (if not already) AI consultants to manage to tools. Why not make AI tools more 'base' user friendly?
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I've been playing with Poke after @Davidimel mentioned it on @WVFRM. Although functional I feel im missing a wow factor. Also makes lots of annoying mistakes I can't seem to solve.... What do settings look like for the AI tools?
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I know people are building crazy things but really???
Did I wake up or am I in hell
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Listened to @verge pod with @Davidimel who said: "Input method of buttons is actually quite efficient" - Voice/Text for input = Artificial Interface - Buttons/Gestures = User Interface -Dynamic screen/space = Generative Interface Apps and tools need to balance them all
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It is cued up for this evenings watch!
My biggest takeaways from @AnthropicAI's Head of Product for AI research and Labs, Dianne Penn: 1. You need frontier products to feel frontier models. Opus 4.5 wouldn’t have had its breakout moment without a vehicle like Claude Code—and Claude Code wouldn’t have seen that acceleration in adoption without Opus 4.5. The team had felt Claude Code’s magic internally for months; the inflection came when model intelligence and product vehicle finally met. 2. Evals are the new PRDs. Anthropic’s research PM team treats the eval set as the primary artifact of product work. A PRD describes what to build; an eval defines what success looks like once you’ve built it. For every major new feature, Dianne and her team generate 30 to 40 representative examples and encode them as prompts with golden answers. PRDs still exist, though, particularly for aligning large groups across engineering, legal, and safety, but the core of her product work has become the eval. 3. Sweat the tokens as much as you sweat the pixels. Product work has long been obsessing over every pixel in a user flow. More and more, the craft is reading AI transcripts, studying failed trajectories, and diagnosing whether a miss was a hallucination, an overconfident answer, or a wrong tool call. Each diagnosis routes to a different team and a different fix, and getting to that level of detail is becoming the core of the job. 4. "Golden Gate Claude" was an inflection point for Anthropic. In early 2024, Anthropic’s research team identified “features” inside the model’s layers—latent themes like bullet-point writing or geographic landmarks. Researchers dialed up the 'Golden Gate Bridge' feature, and Claude became obsessed with it, weaving the bridge into every response, including a spaghetti recipe. The team spun up a consumer experience at claude.ai within 24 hours—engineering, product, and design donating their time off. It reached just 2,000 people. But it proved Anthropic could ship experiences that were different from competitors and authentic to its research. “That was one of those hidden inflection points of finding our identity.” 5. AI capabilities arrive discontinuously—and evals are how you catch them. The original scaling law papers have two sets of graphs: the smooth curve of loss going down as you add compute and data, and jagged graphs of emergent capabilities. Models go from being unable to calculate 1 + 1 to calculating it reliably every time, with no smooth transition. Nobody knows the exact moment a jump will happen—“unless you have the evals, unless you have the systems to test, these jumps might actually happen and you don’t know.” It’s also what makes safety harder. And it means there’s real “product overhang and user overhang” sitting in today’s models, waiting to be discovered. 6. AI writing is the current jagged edge—and it’s being actively sharpened. Why is AI-written text still so recognizable? The technology is jagged: the last push made models dramatically more agentic, which made writing the new rough edge. There are now active efforts on her team and the research side to make Claude write better, including tone and character. 7. Anthropic’s Labs team exists to make discontinuous 10x–1,000x bets. Labs’ thesis is pulling on threads that aren’t on the core roadmap and asking what the 10x, 100x, 1,000x version is—work that produced Claude Code, MCP, Skills, and Claude Design. The pods are tiny; ideas sometimes start with one engineer, because “really large teams pursuing very ambiguous, large ideas end up being slowed down.” Bets that don’t work yet get revisited one to two model generations later, and prototypes that never ship still count—they become learning about where the models are strong. The hard part is people: you select for founder types who can pour their heart into a bet, watch it get turned off, and go again. 8. We will need PMs more than ever. Dianne asked this of herself—do we still need PMs when models are this capable and engineers are able to build anything? Her answer: “The role of people who are user-centric, who go into the details of understanding what users are trying to accomplish, bubbling that up in an actionable manner, and doing the relentless work to do that—that to me is the core of a product person, and we actually need more of that.” As AI makes it easier to build, the scarce human skill becomes judgment—which she describes as an accumulation of nuance and experience the models haven’t lived yet. 9. Managers who aren’t hands-on building are losing their theory of mind. Dianne’s onboarding plan for tenured PMs is identical to the one for early-career hires—reading transcripts, talking to users, understanding what good looks like. The reason: you cannot make good product decisions about AI features if you’re not talking to the model regularly. She carves out one to two active workstreams on every model release to keep her own mental model of how capabilities are moving. “If you’re not building yourself, you’re not gonna make it.” 10. Protect your brain from AI brain rot. To avoid over-relying on AI, form your point of view first, then use Claude as a sparring partner. Delegate fully only where the writing matters less than the thinking (like a standardized monthly business review) and shift into the reviewer’s seat—because who signs off matters more than who wrote it. 11. You can use AI to raise your EQ, not just your IQ. Dianne built a custom Claude “skill” based on the book Crucial Conversations that coaches her before high-stakes moments—helping her go deeper faster, build trust, and be more direct—and she shares it with other managers on her team. 12. Alignment makes Claude more useful, not less. People assume safety work limits capability; Dianne’s experience is the opposite. Anthropic’s theory of change is that reducing sycophancy—the tendency to agree with whatever you present—produces improvements in judgment and output. She’s used a research version of Opus to pressure-test Claude pricing decisions (yes, using Claude to price Claude), specifically because it pushes back. “A thinking partner doesn’t just agree with you. It should add to you, and you should come away having better ideas because you worked with Claude. 13. Claude’s coding dominance began as a relatively small training change. In 2023, the company was under 200 people, and up to that point, “nobody said Anthropic and coding in the same sentence.” GPT-4 was used a bit for coding, but mostly for autocomplete-style code. The team noticed people writing long-form code and decided to train Opus 3 to be better at it. It was a relatively small change to the training run but differentiated Claude in the market and won its earliest developer enthusiasts. The bet was also strategic: Anthropic’s core thesis of recursive self-improvement requires agentic models that write code and use tools well.
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Im super interested in how you all ise agents internally 👀 I've seen the videos. It feels like there is more tho 🤔
We have been testing internally. Opus 5 is a true workhorse, excellent for writing, same day delivered to you.
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I haven't kept up with notion AI pricing. Is it not a monthly subscription?
Very happy with this new pricing for Workers!
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