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Creatives must embrace grunt work

raknahs1991biz — Fri, 01 May 2026 16:48:42 +0000

Article URL: https://time.com/collection/time100-most-influential-companies/2026/alphabet/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47976973

Points: 3

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Ask HN: Should product/engineering teams reorg as prototypers/scalers?

raknahs1991biz — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 15:29:50 +0000

Feel like product-engineering-design orgs need to reorganize around:

prototypers vs. scalers

Prototypers:

- Prototypers are responsible for quickly validating ideas. Prototyping squads have a product thinker (more of a tinkerer - can be a PM or designer).

- After validation, prototypers build a basic architecture of the AI system that delivers a particular outcome to users. They're doing the scaffolding for problems or solutions with large surface area.

Scalers:

- Scalers are responsible for taking validated ideas and optimizing and proofing them to work for thousands of users and customers.

When building becomes faster and cheaper, the premium seems to be on productizing solutions to problems competition hasn’t discovered yet?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45569442

Points: 3

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New comment by raknahs1991biz in "Is AI taking the joy out of making things?"

raknahs1991biz — Sun, 14 Sep 2025 16:46:56 +0000

yeah that's true. the business side of me likes it - I can get things done so much faster. but the creative side of me - misses the satisfaction of building something from scratch, when I use AI.

Is AI taking the joy out of making things?

raknahs1991biz — Sun, 14 Sep 2025 12:11:31 +0000

Article URL: https://shankarganesh.blog/2025/09/14/is-ai-taking-the-happiness-away-from-making-things/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45239236

Points: 4

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Ask HN: Why hasn't Google replaced "I'm feeling lucky" with "Chat with Gemini"?

raknahs1991biz — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 13:19:02 +0000