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Product leader and builder. Currently CPO at BettrData and building Syscribe, an AI-powered documentation platform. Based in Auckland — mostly writing about product, systems, and what I'm reading.
Syscribe is in production—no more beta living only on staging and local environments. Six services running on Railway, UI deployed on Vercel, APIs all go. Next step is dogfooding: regenerating Syscribe's own documentation using Syscribe as the tool.
AI-powered documentation that auto-generates from PR diffs and ships when humans approve. A small team of one, shipping in public against a twelve-week clock.
→SyscribeReading other reviews of this book, I was struck by several reviews stating that the novel was the wrong format for what is, effectively, a technical management book. I disagree with that perspective. The novel allows the reader to see the human impact of those situations and decisions because people matter.
While I enjoyed the nature of this book (survey-style books that explore a thorny question are some of my favorites), Pollan brushes by a major tension that's extremely relevant today: can AI truly be conscious? He states several times that the answer to that question is "no" or at least "not any time soon," but does so in a way that feels a bit disingenuous to a book otherwise intentionally critical of most theories.
I read a lot of science fiction and horror, but this twist was excellent — strongly foreshadowed and yet a complete surprise. And I am not just saying that because I'm an Expanse diehard (though, admittedly, I am).