Product person since forever. VPP at @nurxapp, BOD @vascularcures. Before: @23andme, @scribd, @merck, @verizon

San Francisco
Joined April 2007
Lilia M Coburn retweeted
Sam Altman (CEO of OpenAI): "You no longer need to write prompts." In just 38 minutes, he explains how to use ChatGPT at a level that most people can't even imagine. It's a talk he gave to Stanford students. A friend sent me the recording last night. After watching it, I realized I was only taking advantage of about 15% of what this tool can really do. Watch it in full and then read the guide I leave below on how to create a system that prompts itself. Follow @AnishJaitwar for more
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Lilia M Coburn retweeted
The product manager role just fundamentally changed. For years, we optimized for execution depth. Sprint velocity. Feature delivery. Implementation excellence. That playbook is obsolete. AI can now handle the "how" - the wireframes, the specs, the technical implementation. It's commoditizing execution faster than most PMs realize. What AI can't do? Know which problem actually matters. Understand the customer psychology behind a decision. Read between the lines of user feedback to find the real pain. The new PM superpower isn't shipping faster. It's having the judgment to know what deserves to be built in the first place. Strategic product sense. the ability to connect market dynamics, user needs, and business impact. is becoming the only moat that matters. If your value prop is "I execute well," you're competing with software. If it's "I know what we should build and why," you're irreplaceable.
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Lilia M Coburn retweeted
Your work tools are now interactive in Claude. Draft Slack messages, visualize ideas as Figma diagrams, or build and see Asana timelines.
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Lilia M Coburn retweeted
This is why OpenAI is in a Code Red. In the 2 weeks since the Gemini launch, ChatGPT unique daily active users (7-day average) are down -6%.
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OH a customer say to @weareambient “One reason we love your product is because we didn’t have to learn it. It just works.” Stopped me on my tracks. That’s not luck. That’s good UI/UX doing the selling!
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Lilia M Coburn retweeted
We’re starting to see the power of AI agents working across tools. Linear detects and categorizes a new bug, Sentry identifies the root cause, and Cursor ships the fix — all without breaking context. This is how building (and fixing) products should work: fast and automated.
From detecting a bug to pushing a fix — it's powered by agents in Linear. ① Product Intelligence triages the issue ② Sentry identifies the root cause ③ Cursor drafts a PR to fix it
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Lilia M Coburn retweeted
Was thinking about early warning signs things are going sideways in startups today. “Code smells” aren’t bugs per se, they’re early warnings and startups have them too. Some that make me nervous 1/
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Lilia M Coburn retweeted
🇨🇳China unveils world's first brain-like AI Model SpikingBrain1.0 Upto 100X faster while being trained on less than 2% of the data typically required. Designed to mimic human brain functionality, uses much less energy. A new paradigm in efficiency and hardware independence. Marks a significant shift from current AI architectures Unlike models such as GPT and LLaMA, which use attention mechanisms to process all input in parallel, SpikingBrain1.0 employs localized attention, focusing only on the most relevant recent context. Potential Applications: - Real-time, low-power environments - Autonomous drones and edge computing - Wearable devices requiring efficient processing - Scenarios where energy consumption is critical This project is part of a larger scientific pursuit of neuromorphic computing, which aims to replicate the remarkable efficiency of the human brain, which operates on only about 20 watts of power. --- arxiv .org/abs/2509.05276
SpikingBrain’s technical report reveals a new family of brain-inspired LLMs. Learn how its hybrid-linear attention, conversion-based training, and spiking neurons deliver over 100x speedups and unprecedented efficiency on non-NVIDIA hardware. 100x faster first token at 4M tokens, with training on about 2% of the usual data. Transformers slow down as sequences grow, because each new token checks many earlier tokens and the memory cache keeps growing. SpikingBrain mixes 2 cheaper attentions, linear keeps a small running summary, sliding-window reads only a short slice. The 7B model alternates these layers for near linear cost, the 76B model adds parallel branches and a few full layers. Feed forward blocks use Mixture of Experts, a router picks a small set per token so most weights stay idle. The key idea is adaptive threshold spiking, activations become integer counts during training then expand into sparse events at inference. A light conversion pipeline remaps a standard checkpoint, extends context to 128k, then finishes with supervised fine tuning. Everything runs on MetaX C550 GPUs, the 7B model keeps memory near constant as inputs grow and accuracy stays close to baselines. ---- Paper – arxiv. org/abs/2509.05276 Paper Title: "SpikingBrain Technical Report: Spiking Brain-inspired Large Models"
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OpenAI in talks to acquire Windsurf, an artificial intelligence-assisted coding tool for about $3 billion. "If the deal closes, OpenAI would compete more directly with companies like Anthropic, Microsoft Corp.-owned Github and Anysphere" bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via @technology
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In search of a CGM (continuous glucose monitor), I checked out Stelo by @dexcom and Lingo by @abbottnews: same price, equivalent reviews, similar form factor. I’m choosing Lingo because of the more polished UI, and mostly because the checkout flow was so smooth (it so matters!).
We’re helping people understand their glucose with real-time data so they can connect the dots about what habits work for them. Meet Lingo: Our award-winning biowearable, honored by @FastCompany and @CES. abbo.tt/40YAtgJ abbo.tt/40ZwaSC
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Building B2B SaaS? This is a must watch. Lots of valuable insights that are applicable to D2C as well, such as staying lean and moving with high velocity.
Really grateful to @lennysan for having me on the pod. We got a chance to go into detail on the questions that product practitioners deal with every day and unpack the choices that we make at @linear
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The scene from inside the inauguration of the new Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum. Electric energy.
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