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Nate B Jones
AI Just Stopped Getting Smarter. Here's What Wins Now.
The speaker argues that as frontier AI development slows due to regulatory constraints, the competitive advantage shifts from raw model intelligence to controlling user context—files, messages, calendars, and work data. Apple's Siri redesign, Anthropic's Claude Tag integration with Slack, and OpenAI's Codex adoption represent different strategies for connecting AI to contextual information, making even moderately capable models highly useful.
Nate JonesCRAP Talks
CRAP Talks 20 - Emmanuel Neret: Surfing the Recession Wave as a Product Manager
Emmanuel Neret, a Staff Product Manager at Hopin, discusses how product managers can adapt to the shift from growth-at-all-costs to profitability-focused environments during economic downturns. He uses the surfing metaphor to explain how external conditions have fundamentally changed the role of PMs, introducing new challenges around cost visibility and transparency. He provides practical strategies including dashboard tracking, observability, data-driven decision making, communication, and team motivation to navigate this transitional period.
Emmanuel NeretCRAP Talks
CRAP Talks 20 - Connor Wilkinson: Fireside Chat on Experimentation
Parveen Downer interviews Connor Wilkinson, Head of eCommerce Optimization at Asda, on experimentation and A/B testing. Connor discusses Asda's ecommerce journey, organizational structure that spans both online and physical retail operations, and examples of experiments ranging from picker optimization to substitute product algorithms. The conversation explores how to maintain experimental rigor through data-driven hypotheses, build experimentation culture across large organizations, and navigate the unique challenges of testing in physical retail environments.
Parveen Downer, Connor Wilkinson