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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The two rules of software development: - Up-front thinking is Waterfall; we can only learn by shipping - There's no room on the roadmap for rework, so everything needs to be done right the first time Bosses love AI because they think it can give them up-front certainty on the cheap. But it can't.

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AI is not a substitute for divergent thinking, and the false certainty it gives will never save you from having to iterate.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Thanks to @erikahall.bsky.social @brownorama.bsky.social @andybudd.bsky.social @cifountaine.bsky.social @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social and everyone else not yet on bsky for the writing and ideas that made it into this week's issue of the Product Picnic.

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Peter Merholz @peterme.com · 04/10/2026

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I don’t think bosses have ever really cared about up-front certainty

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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

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Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position, but certainty is an absurd one.”
—Voltaire

over a sad person in a panda suit

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Vincent Pickering @vincentp.me · 04/10/2026

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On the testing/prototyping front. Something I see frequently missed is collecting both qualitative and quantitative data to assess success. Just blindingly picking a metric and saying yay or nay invalidates the whole test and obscures actual results.

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haxdfg.bsky.social @haxdfg.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

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No joke evey successful dev facing tool I’ve built 2-3 times for myself before giving to other people just because I know once it’s in someone else’s hand it won’t be allowed to change.

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Machina Irrationatrix @irrationatrix.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

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I genuinely work in a waterfall org, a place that somehow got missed by all this agile thing, and it's worse than agile critics make it to be. There is no room for rework - what you defined in your requirements is what you ship. Also no partial shippings only the full project. 1/2

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Daniil Marchenko 🇺🇦🇺🇸 @daniilmarchenko.com · 05/10/2026

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I feel like the world of software keeps trying to take shortcuts when doing experiments and rediscovering the scientific method and experimentation again and again.

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Matt Thompson @mvthomster.bsky.social · 18h

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It’s like looking at iron triangle of product development, and saying, “I’ll have all three, please.”

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