Rafe Colburn
@raf.eco
CPTO at Etsy, former CPTO at Depop. Newsletter at https://raf.eco. My main interests are building great products, the practice of management, software engineering, and economics. Also Arsenal FC and the Houston Astros.
Google's product management is really getting in the way of Gemini's success. This seems like the most obvious use case for Gemini in Google Docs and yet ...
October 14, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Google's product management is really getting in the way of Gemini's success. This seems like the most obvious use case for Gemini in Google Docs and yet ...
I'm finding it's really "No more Mr. Nice ChatBot" with Sonnet 4. When you ask Claude for feedback on a doc, it really gives it to you straight. FWIW, its critique was completely valid.
May 31, 2025 at 9:23 AM
I'm finding it's really "No more Mr. Nice ChatBot" with Sonnet 4. When you ask Claude for feedback on a doc, it really gives it to you straight. FWIW, its critique was completely valid.
Movie you've watched more than 6 times, gifs only
February 22, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Movie you've watched more than 6 times, gifs only
Not this header image though, it was the product of a very long and sometimes strained conversation with ChatGPT and I love it.
February 19, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Not this header image though, it was the product of a very long and sometimes strained conversation with ChatGPT and I love it.
Now I've resorted to trying to build up ChatGPT's confidence to convince it not to use text in images. That actually worked.
February 19, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Now I've resorted to trying to build up ChatGPT's confidence to convince it not to use text in images. That actually worked.
If you ever start to forget that generative models hallucinate, try generating an image.
February 17, 2025 at 1:54 PM
If you ever start to forget that generative models hallucinate, try generating an image.