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Andy Madrick

What Andy Madrick thinks about software quality

@andy-madrick · 20 positions · 0 changes of mind

Product designer who led the design of Notion's meeting notes as of May 2026, previously at Tome and Mercury.

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  1. Our readingAn app used every day should be built by a thoughtful team of engineers rather than one-shotted with Claude.

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    Their wordsI don't think I'd want anyone to build the app I use every day just one shotting it with Claude, right? I would want a very thoughtful team of engineers to like do what they do and go to town on it.

    ↗Andy Madrick - Why AI changed design handoff foreveryoutube.com 7th of 20 in this recording

  3. Our readingWork should be broken into manageable chunks, and a designer should not send an engineer a 500-line PR they did not even review themselves.

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    Their wordsWe have to break the work into like manageable chunks. Like five lines is not very realistic, but a hundred-line PR, that's my general advice of like don't five-code a bunch of stuff and send an engineer a 500-line PR that you didn't even review yourself.

    ↗Andy Madrick - Why AI changed design handoff foreveryoutube.com 11th of 20 in this recording