A generation of PMs made a career out of copying ideas from other apps they've seen into their own app. Today, AI (which has seen every app) can do this 100x faster than any of them.

The only problem is that doing this was always pointless

This week's issue of the Product Picnic newsletter breaks down this problem and surfaces some tools for thinking in workflows (or just plain thinking) rather than worrying about atomic features.

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#UX #Tech #SoftwareDevelopment

Thoughtless features never add up to a thoughtful product

Your first idea for how to solve a problem is most likely to be a low-impact hack. Delightful user experiences require a higher level of thinking.

^{Pavel Samsonov (The Product Picnic)}

For those who are interested in my Linux Audio advocacy, I've got a new developers thread at KVRAudio:

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I am discussing the following topic:

Windows Drops Under 60% in Global Desktop OS Share for the First Time in Years

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I also discuss the many flaws in the way Statcounter counts its OS numbers.

#Linux #LinuxAudio #MusicProduction #Audio #Music #Statcounter #OperatingSystems #Windows #MacOS #ChromeOS #OS #Development #Softwaredevelopment

Windows Drops Under 60% in Global Desktop OS Share for the First Time in Years

StatCounter’s June 2026 report shows Linux at one of its strongest recent positions, while Windows falls to 56.55%.

^{Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)}

Much of AI "productivity gains" come from managers implicitly trusting an LLM to do a good job, and suspending the onerous micromanagement that humans employees get subjected to.

You can do that without paying Anthropic a single penny. It just requires letting the experts you hired do their jobs.

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#LLM #AI #tech #UXDesign #UX #SoftwareDevelopment #USerresearch

Trust is not built on craft alone

No amount of tooling will let product teams move faster than being trusted to own their process. That trust is earned through rigor rather than mere velocity.

^{Pavel Samsonov (The Product Picnic)}

Execs are confused: we forced you to use all these powerful AI tools and yet our profits aren't 10x! What gives?

Individual productivity is always downstream of strategy. And the same "more, faster!" attitude that creates incremental improvements in delivery speed means that leaders rush through strategy formation.

If the tasks don't add up to anything meaningful, no amount of model improvements will help you.

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#LLM #AI #tech #softwaredevelopment #UX #Agile

Even with a silver bullet, you still have to aim

Productivity gains among frontline employees can't counteract the abdication of responsibility at the executive level.

^{Pavel Samsonov (The Product Picnic)}