Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 07/09/2025Now, you might disagree! But "roommate satisfaction" is difficult to quantify, while "number of receipts" is very easy to quantify. So that's what I've chosen as the metric on my Roommate Performance Dashboard. You might not like it, but I am a Data Driven Roommate, and data doesn't lie. 3/ 322413
Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 07/09/2025As you might imagine this is actually a story about software development, and not toilet paper. AI "powered" processes ride on the credibility earned by real design, where a "receipt" is evidence that real work was actually done. But all they do is imitate receipts, not the work itself. 325117
Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 07/09/2025The story continues on today's newsletter:productpicnic.beehiiv.comSkipping alignment leads to zero-impact UXDeliverable artifacts are only a small part of the social system that product development entails. Any "productivity" gained by ignoring that system is an illusion. 1553
Jordan @jordanclock.bsky.social · 07/09/2025Okay, but what if the "receipts" were so badly mangled or obviously fake that they required knowledgeable specialists to fix them? That's a job creation program! 050