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David Heinemeier Hansson

What David Heinemeier Hansson thinks about product management

@dhh · 154 positions · 10 changes of mind

Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals, and creator of Omarchy.

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  1. Our readingSoftware is product management, and those are the skills the agentic era rewards — skills that are not evenly distributed among programmers.

    Their wordsThe reason I say that is there's a lot of programmers who are not very good product managers. Software is product management. What should it do? Who should it do it for? How should it do it? How should it look? What are our priorities? What do we start with first? What does version one include? All of those skills are not easily or equally distributed across all programmers.

    ↗DHH: Future of Programming, AI, Agentic Engineering, Vibe Coding & Linux | Lex Fridman Podcast #501youtube.com 13th of 41 in this recording

    Interesting
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  3. Our readingDesigners should find what the spec should be and build it in HTML and CSS themselves, not make a product manager's spec look pretty.

    Their wordsDesigners at 37 Signals are not just here to make a spec look pretty. They're here to find what the spec should be. They're product managers in many ways.

    ↗DHH’s new way of writing codeyoutube.com 4th of 20 in this recording

    CSSdesign

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