> people who have never used the product and don't think like or accurately represent our users
I agree completely that these are the important qualifications to be setting direction for a product.
> Find your most socially competent engineer, and have them talk to users a couple times a month.
This doesn't necessarily follow from the above, but in Anthropic's case specifically, where the users are software engineers, it probably would have worked better than whatever they have going on now.
In general, it's probably better to have domain experts doing product management, as opposed to someone who is trained in product management.
But maybe the button only appears on that URL if you've first pressed something else, or if you're logged in/out, or maybe that URL has a different token each day that makes it seem like a completely different URL, or...
If you are looking for another self-hostable alternative to Slack, Rocket chat[0] is also worth looking at.
I wasn't involved in any of the Dev Ops aspect when my former employer used them, but the search function actually worked which is better than I can say for Slack.
Really? I have yet to use a single Slack-alike with search that actually works - including Slack, Teams and Mattermost. I mean they "work" in that the search results happen to include your terms too, but they give you the actual relevant message only about 10% of the time.
Rocket Chat does look nice! I quite liked Mattermost except for the mobile app being trash. How is the Rocket Chat mobile app?
Could you expand on why you describe Hyprland and XFCE4 as "a cursed combination"? Might provide some insight as to why the official XFCE project decided to create their own compositor.
The Sweden that gave us Spotify and Candy Crush (the game that showed every tech company that they need to incorporate really really awful manipulation of users)?
The average answer writer on SO is not actually that toxic: really it's the voters.
The top answer will almost always be an explanation of why the asker is wrong to want to do the thing they want to do. But that's not most answers, or most answerers, just the top ones.
The bottom answer will almost always be an honest attempt to write code that answers the question. Sometimes the code doesn't work, or needs explanation: these problems will be solved a couple answers up from the bottom.
My technique for years has been to click the SO link in search results, then hit End on my keyboard to jump to the bottom of the page. This a little slower than reading a cached LLM answer, but faster than waiting for the LLMs to generate something.
Lenovo does have a history with installing a very obvious spyware rootkit on their consumer PCs[0].
[0]https://support.lenovo.com/us/en/product_security/ps500035-s...
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