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Wrote up the lessons @posthog.com has learned about building AI-powered features that are actually valuable, from choosing what to build to implementing it correctly to improving it.

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What we've learned about building AI-powered features
How to choose the right features, implement them the right way, and make them better (for real)
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September 4, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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Who's building the next GitHub?

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GitHub is ripe for disruption GitHub is ubiquitous. It feels like it has always been there and I couldn’t imagine a world without it. You might use different LLMs, IDEs, and programming languages, but everyone uses GitHub. This isn’t to say a better version couldn’t exist and now seems like the perfect moment to make it happen. Outages seem to happen every week, it is in a decreasingly important spot at Microsoft, and it simply hasn’t really changed (probably a good thing). Here are some features GitHub doesn’t have that could form the basis of a disruptive competitor: Live collaboration. GitHub is a Sketch-era app. There is a Figma equivalent waiting to be built. Planning, issues, and reviews could all be rebuilt to use live collaboration. For example, why can’t I thread comments on PRs, only code comments? Why can my review overlap with someone else’s and I get no warning? Tailored review interfaces. GitHub was built for software engineers but there’s a lot more roles who rely on it now like me (a technical marketer). Review interfaces tailored to the type of content being reviewed. For example, reviewing markdown sucks and a change to a website almost always involves deploying a preview and tabbing back and forth between it and the PR. I’m sure infra or ML engineers could come up with their own requirements too. AI coding. It’s sort of forgotten that Copilot was a GitHub product. Although I’m sure it’s still used a lot, it doesn’t feel like a core part of GitHub. It’s also not on the cutting edge anymore (Claude Code, Cursor, Devin, etc.). There’s no AI interface in GitHub. Where is the issue summarization, chat with your codebase, and code generation? Native AI code reviews. Although they are the biggest new innovation in GitHub, it feels like AI code review tools like Greptile are bolted on rather than natively supported. AI code reviewers are limited in their functionality in GitHub (only read code and comment) and largely run outside GitHub. GitHub has bee…
August 16, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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Valtown is awesome, built a Bluesky mentions bot for @posthog.com super easy 😎
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Bluesky keyword alerts Custom notifications for when you, your company, or anything you care about is mentioned on Bluesky. 1. Query Specify your queries in the queries variable. Bluesky doesn't sup...
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December 28, 2024 at 3:24 AM