I feel like he's just doing it for attention.

I work at a less innovative place, and I see out product managers coming with prototypes, at least solid mock ups rather than just a jira. They socialize it with potential users, they iterate, they find missing requirements, it's pretty powerful. The net result is we're building better features faster.

After his stunt with the mass firings "because of AI," employees now bring prototypes, not slides, to meetings with Jack Dorsey.

These clowns live in a dreamworld created by their PAs and cronies

If Block were experiencing rapid productivity improvements from AI why is their flagship Square product still worse than Toast? Toast is eating their lunch day after day.

> "I hate the way people use slide presentations instead of thinking," Jobs once said, according to a book published last month by David Pogue.

I wonder what he'll think about these vibecoded prototypes and if it's more thinking or less thinking

Block signed a friend of mine, they quit their other job, then block was like whoops layoffs including people like this person who hadn’t even started. Super unethical.

"Just two months ago every meeting that we would have, you see a presentation or a Google Doc and we go through it," Dorsey said.

2 months ago they were still using PowerPoints? Jesus no wonder they had to lay so many people off. What the fuck is going on over there?

I bet, considering the massive skill needed for it: "hey claude, turn this presentation into a prototype".

The "prototypes not slides" rule works great for product decisions where the devil is in the interaction details. You can't really argue about a flow in a slide deck — once someone clicks through a prototype, the discussion shifts from opinion to observation.

But I wonder how they handle discussions that are inherently abstract — pricing changes, infrastructure migration plans, org restructuring. Forcing a prototype there would just produce theater. The real insight is probably not "prototypes good, slides bad" but "stop presenting things that should be experienced.

I'm not sure what the flex is here.

Is the idea that prototypes give the Permission Granter more fidelity into a proposal and therefore can make better decisions? Whereas before, with Slide Decks, the Permission Granter couldn't experience certain things and therefore couldn't make as good decisions to grant permissions?

So in effect this remains a billionaire figure speaking from their own perspective and we're supposed to care?

At face value this seemed cool, but the more I think about it slides or prototypes are the same thing, just a different kind of theater.