Alexander Vilinskyy

In NYC for couple of weeks, in case someone wants to discuss ai anxieties, consumer sentiments and how they are met by current quality of products and what are the strategies to get asymmetrical results on the market.

Or tennis.

One of the magic feelings about agents, is that everyone can become a manager and have the feel of "it's running while I'm away". It was always magical part to me of working with people too.

Not in a sense of power, but infinite momentum, because things are moving on their own, after you're giving very good push.

But agents are not making people better at people management. People require more nuanced prompts, more restraint, more careful context input, adaptation, individuality treatment.

And developers mostly treat all of these as downsides or blockers, while there's a real magic to work with aligned, pumped up team who all understand "the team".

2020: build a product, not service agency. service in an endless cycle of rich clients with unlimited amount of stupid requests.

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2026: no product has a moat, no one pays for anything apart from ai tokens, product margins are slim, 1 winner per category and always has target on their back, no one has enough taste or discipline to actually finish things.

Affairs is so 00s.
Truly nostalgic.

“Model to solve your most complex problems” is a weird goal setting, for companies who are trying to win general consumers.

Consumers don’t have physics problems everyday, they have computer use and automation hiccups, where app sometimes forgets where it runs or what permissions it has.