Anthony Marter

@nurijanian "5. Most PMs spend more time writing angry Slack messages and then deleting them than they spend on actual product strategy. This is the emotional labor nobody talks about." Chef's kiss...🤣

I just read a PM's post about automating their workflows with AI, so let me share some takes: 1. You can automate documentation all you want. You'll still spend 3 hours a week explaining it to people who won't read it anyway. 2. The biggest time sink in product management isn't creating artifacts. It's convincing others your idea was actually their idea all along. 3. I've seen PMs automate their entire PRD process. They still spend 80% of their time in meetings where nobody references the PRD. 4. AI can write your user stories in seconds. Getting alignment on those stories will still take 4 meetings, 12 Slack threads, and one awkward hallway conversation. 5. Most PMs spend more time writing angry Slack messages and then deleting them than they spend on actual product strategy. This is the emotional labor nobody talks about. 6. Every PM job description mentions "data-driven decision making." In reality, you spend most of your time cleaning up decisions your predecessor made based on vibes and executive opinions. 7. The irony of AI automation tools for PMs: They optimize the 20% of your job that's already efficient. The other 80% - managing up, sideways, and down - remains stubbornly human. 8. You know what takes the most time? Re-explaining the same strategy to different stakeholders who all think they're hearing it for the first time. 9. I automated my entire data analysis workflow last year. Now I spend that saved time defending the data to people who don't like what it says. 10. The best PMs I know aren't great at creating artifacts. They're great at navigating organizational dysfunction without losing their minds. 11. Here's the pattern I see: Junior PMs obsess over perfecting their templates. Senior PMs obsess over reducing the number of meetings where those templates get ignored. 12. You want to know where PMs really spend time? Writing diplomatic versions of "this is a terrible idea" in 15 different ways until one lands. 13. AI can generate a roadmap in minutes. Getting everyone to stop trying to add their pet feature to it is a quarterly battle. 14. The cruel joke: By the time you've automated your PM workflows, you'll probably be promoted to a role where none of those automations matter anymore. 15. If AI could automate stakeholder alignment, that would be the real revolution. Instead, we're automating the creation of documents that prove alignment never existed. Product management is 20% building products and 80% managing the humans who make building products complicated.

@nickofnz As someone with a smallish rooftop system my net buyback rates have reduced overall as a result of this change. So this is yet another example of govt appearing to do something, but not actually making a difference...

@nickofnz Unlike AU where they need to do this kind of thing to manage large amounts of middle of the day exports, NZ has such small amounts of solar we should be encouraging export at all times of the day to drive uptake, not disingenuously creating the impression of good rates.

Significant but slow progress. NZ orders networks to buy back rooftop solar during peaks, in suite of DER-boosting reforms reneweconomy.com.au/nz-orders-netw…

@juhasaarinen I read somewhere that the 'petrol tank size' for an EV that does ~300km is about 7.5L - due to the much higher efficiency that's the equivalent amount of petrol it consumes to travel the same distance as an ICE vehicle.

Interesting.

@teesider61 I'll charge to 100% at home before leaving on cheap overnight power, and then refill the same way when returning home.

@teesider61 But if you can charge at home before/after the journey then you'll pay less overall, I've never paid more than $40 in total for public charging for 200 - 400km trips around the upper north island in my model 3.

Another question for my EV followers in NZ What is the real-world cost of topping up at a public charger for approx 300kms of range? Thanks in advance

@grants_food @Mountain_Tui That wasn't the point tho - the point was to accelerate the supply of used EVs, which would have been pretty handy right about now...

@Mountain_Tui So artificially subsidized vehicles is logical in your world. Fuck it let’s all stop working and the government can buy us cars. Socialism works till it needs controlling then it’s called communism. If you’re ok with that have a nice life comrade and eat ze bugs

This government made owning an EV on avg. $1000/year more expensive (RUC). That'll soon offset the $3750 rebate on a used EV people got. That's why we have such a low stock on affordable, used EVs now.

@Mountain_Tui Impact of RUCs on EV ownership cost are blown out of proportion - works out to be 7.6c/km which is tiny. If you charge at home it works out to be $0.06/km, so about $0.14/km. Best hybrid is gonna be about $0.20, but once you add servicing costs ($0 for a EV) it is closer to $0.50

@HacksawNZ @petetweetsshit There's plenty of grid capacity outside of the morning/evening peaks just waiting to be used... x.com/antzzzm/status…

@petetweetsshit Transport fuels are roughly equal to electricity generation. We would have to more than double renewable electricity generation overnight. Totally impossible.

@GregPresland Life imitating art?

@antzzzm That is classic!

A simple visual explanation of the Government's four fuel security alert levels. This is level one which we are currently at. Basically do nothing.

@Bridgetpee x.com/antzzzm/status…

The national fuel plan: 1) Do nothing 2) Do almost nothing 3) Do very little 4) Oh fuck

@RusselNorman It's the standard 4 stages... x.com/antzzzm/status…

The NZ Govt just spent the last two years introducing policies to make NZ more dependent on fossil fuels, and proudly overturning policies that were reducing our dependence on fossil fuels. Now they have some Mickey Mouse national fuel plan. What a joke.

@GregPresland I mean the NZ response even has 4 stages, the content of which seem to match that video pretty well. We already know that during COVID diesel demand didn't drop by much so not sure how stages 3 & 4 are going to work without major changes like shifting most freight to rail

@GregPresland In all fairness they are just following the standard 4 stage process... youtu.be/QYHwgQLvjqs?si…

@ProductFaculty For sure if you are a PM with a tech background you could also do those things with tools available now. But your value is finding the next $1m+ opportunity for the org and then realising the opportunity, and that is gonna involve way more than flinging stuff to customers faster

@ProductFaculty That seems mostly like an iteration of the role of an engineer? Where is build the commercial model, define pricing, figure out the customer adoption models, optimise margins etc? The PMs who will win when build cost trends to zero are the ones who understand how to make $$$s

WOW! Only one type of PM is going to win these roles: The AI-native PM. Companies are no longer hiring PMs to write PRDs, run meetings, “coordinate” teams, etc. They’re hiring PMs who can: 󠁯•󠁏 First, define the problem → what workflow should AI automate end-to-end 󠁯•󠁏 Break the workflow into inputs → reasoning → outputs → actions 󠁯•󠁏 Decide what is rules-based vs what needs AI 󠁯•󠁏 Design the context → what data, memory, and knowledge the model needs 󠁯•󠁏 Choose the model + architecture (RAG, tools, agents, routing) 󠁯•󠁏 Prototype fast → build a working loop (input → AI → output → action) 󠁯•󠁏 Test if it actually works in real scenarios (not demos) 󠁯•󠁏 Create evals → define what “good output” looks like and measure it 󠁯•󠁏 Add guardrails → handle errors, hallucinations, edge cases 󠁯•󠁏 Optimize cost + latency → tokens, model selection, caching 󠁯•󠁏 Design UX → how users interact (chat, commands, autonomous actions) 󠁯•󠁏 Ship early → get real usage and feedback 󠁯•󠁏 Capture feedback loops → corrections, failures, behavior data 󠁯•󠁏 Continuously improve → prompts, retrieval, model routing 󠁯•󠁏 Scale → turn it into a reliable system users depend on So yes, jobs are back. But the market has totally changed because we keep seeing this inside our program. If you’re still preparing for the 2021 PM role… you’re already behind.

@synacknz @saltyreigns So no more dams needed - tho we really should stop the corporate welfare that is dedicating Manapouri to the overseas owned smelter. And NZ is completely unsuited to nuclear due to our peaky load profile - nuclear is good for high steady baseload demand which we simply don't have

@synacknz @saltyreigns There is more than enough grid capacity to replace the entire light vehicle fleet with EVs with room to spare. I know that understanding the difference in grid load profiles for average vs peak demand might not be easy for those outside of the industry.

Ok. Hypothetically. If we all jumped into EVs tomorrow - how would our grid cope? We would simply be facing a different kind of crisis. This is why I hate the left.