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What nobody tells you about writing agent skills
We’re officially skill-pilled. PostHog teams have published 226 skills to our internal skill store, and we have 187 SKILL.md files across 28 different products in our codebase. Everyone uses skills to both improve PostHog and their own wo...
How much can you delegate to agents?
People are trusting their agents to do more work without supervision, but how do you decide when to trust them?
Some think the answer depends on how good the model is – i.e. when models get better, you can trust them to do more. But trusti...
2030-shaped software
By 2030, AI agents will be the primary users of software.
Many of the conversations and decisions about what we’re building now are impacted by this. More and more, we’re aiming towards building “2030-shaped software.”
This is a vague asp...
Product for Engineers is now build mode
We’re rebranding Product for Engineers as build mode to better cover everything it takes to build successful products from now into the future. Here’s why.
We accomplished our original goal
We started Product for Engineers to challenge...
Stop being the code review bottleneck
Agents are writing code faster than any human can review.
The naive solution would be for developers to review code faster. The 500 IQ take is for developers to review as little code as possible.
If you need to be involved in every code...
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