Tony Fadell

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Creator of the iPod and co-creator of the iPhone at Apple, founder of Nest, and author of Build.

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product management 4

Technology-led teams talk about what a product is and never about why it matters, and the why is where the whole story lives.
You cannot get real feedback on a new consumer product before shipping the whole thing; feedback starts when somebody spends their own money on it.

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coding agents 2

AI coding works when a person owns the architecture and scopes the agent to small pieces of it, and fails when the whole thing is handed over.
Agent-written code that runs and passes its tests is not enough: security, maintainability and being able to roll it back still need humans in the loop.

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innovation 2

A model can produce version two of a product that already exists, but the genuinely new version one still has to be made by people.
Incumbents are unseated by a fundamentally different product, never by better features or better marketing.

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software quality 2

Fast software is fast fashion: it does not survive a season, and a company meant to last cannot be built on throwaway code.
Agent-written code that runs and passes its tests is not enough: security, maintainability and being able to roll it back still need humans in the loop.

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startups 2

By the time a technology is hot it is already too late to start in it.
Nothing works the first time: the first generation makes the product, the second fixes it, and only the third fixes the business.

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