> Google Maps should have a Low Stress mode
Maps finds the fastest route. The best route depends on who's driving, and a few minutes is often worth fewer hard decisions.
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> Your pricing is the product
How you charge changes how people use what you built, so decide the behavior you want first. Cursor and Cline showed me the difference.
> The AI in your product doesn't have to be a chat box
Chat is the obvious way to add AI, and it demos well. The one I keep finding useful is quieter: AI sprinkled through the product, doing a step the user used to have to think about.
> Why I moved my PM automations from Claude Code into Linear
Moving recurring PM checks into Linear made them something the whole team could see and change. How I set up the loops, and what it suggests about where agents belong.
> Architecture linting, as cheap as a typecheck
Encode the correction as a check instead of repeating yourself. It runs on every change while the agent is still working, so the mistake gets caught before you ever see it.
> What I learned watching agents use my tools
Building CLIs, APIs, and MCPs for agents works a lot like building for people. Watch them use it, see where they get stuck, and fix that.
> Every shortcut pulls a block
A Jenga rule from an old office: fix a bug without a test, pull a block. Why the follow-up after an urgent fix gets lost, and why it's easier to keep now.
> What scheduling looks like when agents are the user
Calendly turned availability into a link. But links were built for humans. When agents book the meeting, the whole model changes.