@RobertJBye @ttauhou How did NYC compare for you? Have done London and New York, the food and walkability is insanely good
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Patrick Parfrey
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Product Lead: Build and launch digital products. Irish in NYC
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@ttauhou I did the same in NYC and London and being able to walk everywhere is such an unlock
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I’ve only been here a few months but I’m not sure how much longer I’ll be able say ‘London is the best city to live in the world’
Pretty wild where you can go in under an hours drive here
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@levie 100%
Recently flew to India to ensure one of my teams was comfortable with adopting AI for engineering. Took 3 days for a small team, and 1 month later the efficiency gains are starting to become clear
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We dramatically underestimate how much change management it is going to take to automate most knowledge worker tasks.
Between data being in legacy environments or systems or without good APIs, context missing for doing the task, teams that are less technical, and other factors, there’s still a lot of work to drive real AI transformation in an enterprise.
This is actually great news if you’re building right now because the opportunity is to build the software bridges to make this easier, or to build new services firms to help with this change management. Opportunity is all around for those looking.
Jason Shuman@JasonrShuman
Silicon Valley thinks AI agents are a $20/mo self-serve subscription. Main Street is paying local agencies $10,000 just to turn them on. Everyone assumes AI will be bought primarily online like Slack or Zoom. I think they are wrong. Some of the biggest winners in the AI boom won't be the software vendors. It will be the humans installing it. Here is the reality of SMBs right now: • 54% lack internal AI expertise. • 41% have data quality too poor for AI to even work. • 41% already prefer buying AI through a local IT provider. You cannot "1-click install" a genius AI into a messy CRM or a 15-year-old server. It will just execute the wrong tasks at the speed of light. The AI software will be cheap and a lot will absolutely be bought online. Making it actually work for a messy, real-world business will be expensive. Very bullish on the "Do It For Me" economy being back.
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@aakashgupta Agree. Seeing how far we can push this with my PMs. I pushed code to one of my client projects recently, thanks to Claude Code.
Never studied comp science or written a line of code before. Very cool to do.
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I don't think most PMs realize how fast the "AI-native PM" bar is rising.
Six months ago, knowing how to write a good prompt was enough. Now the PMs getting hired at top AI companies have full tooling stacks: custom GPTs for PRD drafts, Claude Projects loaded with their company's design principles, Gemini Gems configured for competitive analysis.
Lisa Huang created Gems at Google. She showed her complete setup in this episode and the pattern is clear. The best PMs aren't prompting AI. They're configuring AI. Once.
The setup cost is 2 hours. The ongoing return is 5+ hours per week. The compounding return is that your AI gets better at your job the more you use it.
Every PM interview I've seen in 2026 asks some version of "how do you use AI in your workflow." The answer they want isn't "I use ChatGPT." They want to hear about your system.
Build the system.
Aakash Gupta@aakashgupta
Gemini Gems, Claude Projects, custom GPTs. If you're not using any of them, you're working harder than you need to. The creator of Gemini Gems walked me through her entire setup: 3:52 - The 3 Gems everyone needs 6:05 - Building a custom Gem 32:22 - Measuring your setup
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@sachinrekhi Couldn’t agree more. Committed code to a client project over past few days.
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The AI landscape for PMs has shifted dramatically in just 6 months.
I'm updating my AI Productivity course to reflect where things stand today, and here's what I'm seeing:
Prototyping went from advanced skill to job requirement. Meta now includes a live vibe coding interview where candidates build prototypes using Claude Code, Figma Make, or Lovable. If that's not a signal that prototyping is table stakes, I don't know what is.
Claude Code crossed the chasm. True agentic platforms have matured, and Claude Code has won on both capabilities and enterprise adoption. It's moved from experimental to essential for PMs.
Discovery is the new constraint. AI has accelerated delivery so much that customer discovery and design are now the limiting factors in product development. The upside: a wave of AI tools is emerging to help PMs speed up discovery work.
Data analysis is platform-agnostic. I can now analyze data with AI in Google Sheets, Excel, or directly against databases in Claude. The question isn't whether AI can help—it's which tool fits the specific task best.
Presentation tools caught up. After a slow start, AI capabilities in Google Slides, PowerPoint, and purpose-built tools like Gamma are finally solid enough to meaningfully accelerate how PMs create presentations.
The AI Productivity course now includes specific skill-building and detailed demos for all of these capabilities.
Join the next cohort starting April 7th 👉 reforge.com/courses/ai-pro…
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the most underrated hire right now is a great product person.
when i say product person i'm def not talking about a product manager. perhaps i think there has to be somewhat of a new role. i don't have a good name for it yet but maybe something like "product thinker".. someone with an intuitive grasp of the product as it exists, where it's soft, where it sings, & how to iterate it toward something even sharper. in some sense, this person has to cohesively hold in their head where this product should be 2 years from now & work backwards from that.
i say this cuz when building was hard, engineering was the bottleneck & the status hierarchy often reflected that. building is no longer hard. which means the variance in outcomes has shifted almost entirely to judgment on what to build, how to sequence it, & how to talk about it.
& the story matters as much as the thing. internally, it organizes the team around a shared model of why. externally, it shapes the interpretive frame users bring to their first experience. you can't retrofit narrative onto a product & expect it to land, it has to be load bearing from the start.
the rarest version of this person sits at the intersection of culture & deep technology. someone genuinely bilingual. they know what's technically possible & they know which cultural currents are real vs. ephemeral. that combo is what separates products that feel inevitable from products that feel assembled.
before ppl clap back with this person has always been valuable, i know.. i am just saying now they might be the most *important* person in the room. their value compounds like never before.
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I built the ultimate GTM Engineer AI Toolkit that handles prospect research, outreach writing, meeting prep, and more in minutes.
This is a beginner-friendly walkthrough that shows you exactly how to set it up, use it at work, and personalize it to your business.
It can:
- Research real prospects and companies
- Score accounts against your ICP
- Write personalized cold outreach sequences
- Generate meeting prep briefs before calls
- Help you build a repeatable prospecting pipeline
- All using a free toolkit + Claude Code / Codex.
This is for SDRs, founders, marketers, and GTM operators who want to use AI to do more at work without buying another expensive tool.
I break down the full workflow step by step in the video.
👇 Comment "GTM GUIDE" and I’ll send you the full toolkit.
(make sure you're following me so I can DM you)
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NYC has insane AI talent density, but barely any high-quality AI events.
Meanwhile, SF has 5–6 every week. That gap doesn’t make sense.
So we are trying to change it.
We are hosting a curated meetup for serious AI builders & startup enthusiasts.
First one is on Feb 27!
We are starting small and will slowly scale it up.
Comment or DM if you interested. Share it with your NYC AI friends!
mads 🧐@alastor_madeye_
I’m putting together a quaint dinner in NYC for some movers and shakers at the end of the month. Partiful coming soon! ✨
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@kkyvik Bizarre that queueing is not a widespread capability
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Give Lovable a hard task and walk away.
- Plan mode: asks questions first, create detailed plan, fewer wrong turns
- Queueing: stack your prompts, and let them run
- Browser tools: test things automatically so you don't have to
Lovable@Lovable
Introducing a smarter Lovable that is 71% better at solving complex tasks. Lovable can now do more work, more autonomously—using deeper planning, browser testing, and prompt queuing. Below is how it works.
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Shotwell is now available to test
Like + reply "full send" and I'll DM you the link - be sure you follow so I can send the dm
matt palmer@mattyp
screenshot to mockup in 60s - public beta out tomorrow
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Introducing @variantui
Enter an idea and get endless (beautiful) designs as you scroll
No canvas, no skills or MCP, no constant prompting
Reply if you'd like 200 free designs to give it try
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@amasad When I hit “publish to App Store”, and that’s completed, is it possible to add feature where you offer auto generation of all mock screens for Apple submissions aligned to their spec across device types?
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Claude reviews coding tools and guess who wins 🙂
Sean Fenlon@seanfenlon
Claude personalized this AI code writing decision matrix for me, including my middle name. For me, Claude scores Claude Code lower than Replit, which is candid and surprising IMHO.
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Tried @Replit today. Blown away. Truly. Idea to working prototype on my phone in 5 minutes. It used @expo under the hood so I can also use Claude Code if I want.
Gil@gilgNYC
How does one go about creating iOS/mobile apps in 2026? What’s the fastest way to go from idea to test flight if I’m comfortable coding react?
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@overton_news And the Medicaid fraud also happening for decades in Miami, Florida, as described in ‘Revenge of the Tipping Point’ by @Gladwell
This is exactly what we saw in @nickshirleyy video
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This was another watershed moment on CNN.
Scott Jennings used his voice to speak for the millions of Americans fed up with fraud running roughshod in blue states across the country.
Abby Phillip tried to push her narrative about the Somali fraud scheme in Minnesota...but @ScottJenningsKY fired back immediately.
PHILLIP: “This idea that nothing is being done, that no one is being held accountable, that this was just left to run rampant, is completely false.”
JENNINGS: “Well, some people have been held accountable. But I think in the opinion of most Republicans, not nearly enough.”
Then he dropped the knockout line that landed across the country:
“And truthfully, until somebody in a position of power, until somebody in a position in Minnesota, elected position, who was in charge of administering this or having some oversight over it, goes to jail, it’s honestly never going to stop.”
“Look what’s going on in blue states across the country: 9 billion in Minnesota, 70 billion in fraud in California, cooking the crime stats in Washington, D.C.”
“When is someone in a position of power going to go to jail for the rampant fraud?”
“You can put all the low-level people in jail you want, but until somebody in charge goes to jail, it won’t stop!”
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The UK welfare state is broken.
- Only ~40% of households are net contributors
- The richest 20% contribute ~90% of net funding
The solution?
Impose a wealth tax so the rich can contribute more.
The result?
16,500 of millionaires left the UK, with estimated wealth of a staggering USD 91.8 billion
This system is unsustainable
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Thanks for engaging. Show me the economic literature which says that a modest wealth tax on billionaires of 1-2 percent disincentivizes founders or VC investment? I know plenty of economists who argue the opposite. Id be happy to read papers that make your point.
NicholasGibbs@NickGibbsIAG
Sad to see @RoKhanna become another politician who has no economic literacy. Now hold my 🥃 Your case for a billionaire wealth tax falls apart on every key point. You say founders like Jensen Huang would not be deterred by a 1 to 2 percent annual tax on unrealized gains because he was not thinking about taxes in 1993. That is irrelevant. No one calculates distant taxes on day one. The issue is marginal incentives: slashing the ultimate reward after decades of risk forces stock sales to pay the tax and deters the next wave of founders. Pretending this has zero behavioral effect is economic nonsense. You brag the Bay Area has 37 times Austin’s VC and Florida “is not on the map.” That is stale data ignoring the exodus already underway. California loses high earners and companies yearly because of crushing taxes and rules. Tesla, Oracle, HPE did not relocate to Texas for the barbecue. Adding a federal wealth tax accelerates the bleed. Clusters are not immortal. You note public funding built foundational tech: NSF, DARPA, universities. True, but irrelevant to the conclusion. Public money funds research; private risk turns it into world changing companies. Capping rewards for that private step means fewer breakthroughs get commercialized. Basic incentive economics. You warn of revolutions from inequality, citing history. History says the opposite: Britain’s brutal industrial inequality drove the fastest living standard gains ever. Real wages soared eventually. 1848 and 1917 stemmed from tyranny and war, not rich people. America’s Gilded Age was far more unequal than today and built the 20th century prosperity engine. Punishing success slows the growth that lifts everyone. You claim a wealth tax boosts innovation. Reality: nearly every OECD country that tried one scrapped it (France, Germany, Sweden, Austria, Denmark) because it raised peanuts, sparked capital flight, and hurt growth. The track record is a total failure. And the mirror moment: Washington already hauls in record $5 trillion plus yearly yet runs trillion dollar deficits through waste, fraud, and bloat. Hundreds of billions vanish annually on duplication and improper payments. Before inventing new taxes on the tiny group creating real value, demand government live within its means. Jensen Huang and Elon Musk allocate capital with ruthless efficiency; government is the worst allocator on earth. Feeding its irresponsibility is not justice; it is complicity. Wealth is not a fixed pile to slice up; it is the return on risk that grows the entire economy. Taxing it punitively does not enlarge anyone’s share; it shrinks tomorrow’s pie for all. A billionaire tax would not save innovation or democracy. It would cripple both. Your position is not just wrong; it is upside down.
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@BarryAndrewsMEP @X Barry is an Irish politician. About 58 % of Ireland’s GDP comes from foreign-owned firms (mostly multinationals and mostly US). And here he is threatening a US company because he doesn’t like what people say on their platform.
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Reality check: @X global ad sales are due to be > $2 billion this year...
Secretary Marco Rubio@SecRubio
The European Commission’s $140 million fine isn’t just an attack on @X, it’s an attack on all American tech platforms and the American people by foreign governments. The days of censoring Americans online are over.
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Okay lekka looks like we have a lekka size group for a walk!! We’ll do it then on Thursday 25 Dec at 06h00 infront of Doodles. It’s a fast walk (not run) - 3km out and 3 back! = GI Dezember 🇿🇦
Rassie Erasmus@RassieRugby
If you guys in Blouberg keen to do this again on Christmas morning again?
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Ramp data is now available in the bloomberg terminal.
Michael McDonough@M_McDonough
🚀 Cool new data series on @TheTerminal: the @tryramp AI Index shows how fast U.S. businesses are adopting AI—based on actual corporate spend, not surveys. Is the growth rate is slowing down? *Now live on the Terminal and in WSL ALTE<GO>.
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It’s that time of the year when NYC concretely proves the “best city in the world” allegations
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