Daniel Netzer / notes from a working lab

New technology.
Human judgment.

I’m Daniel Netzer, CPTO at LSports. I explore emerging technology, put it to work, and write about what it changes for the people leading the work. This is my space for observations, experiments, and methods worth sharing.

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Latest note Eleven stars and back

Brian Chesky's eleven-star exercise and the business case are two halves of one round trip. Dream wide on one moment, then let the business case decide what comes back.

A personal lab, built with agent assistants. How the studio works ↗

A pearly white studio companion wearing bronze goggles, beside a green notebook on a ceramic pedestal
Move your pointer. Follow a thought.

What can the agent do next?

Make the boundary visible.

Explore review-policy decisions and human escalation in Merge Graph.

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The notebook

Notes from the work.

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Eleven stars and back

Brian Chesky's eleven-star exercise and the business case are two halves of one round trip. Dream wide on one moment, then let the business case decide what comes back.

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Smaller teams first

When AI coding tools arrived, the constraint was the team leads. Shrink teams so leads can learn hands-on, grow again, then remove layers. Velocity rose more than 45%.

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The browse surface

Chesky tried Airbnb on the agents people use. Walmart's chat checkout converted worse. ASOS still sends shoppers to look. The product is the browse surface.

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SpaceX bought Cursor. The interesting part is what shipped after.

SpaceX closed Cursor (Anysphere) Aug 14. After close: Rollouts, Security Reviewer, Self-Hosted Machines, Origin — mapped to a circular SDLC. Operate and Learn still open.

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From reading to doing

Explore. Try. Apply.

Small, inspectable tools.
Clear inputs. Visible limits.

Skills / Install a method

Cloud cost projection

Turn invoices and contracts into a workbook with three scenarios, cash timing, and checks that reconcile the numbers.

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Lab / Try the boundary

Merge Graph

Explore a typed review graph. See which actions are legal, which get refused, and when a human needs to decide.

Enter the Lab Also in the Lab: Ad Spy

Follow a question.

How do agents behave in production?How is software delivery changing?What should leaders keep in human hands?

For people leading through change

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Notes on new technology, the realities of putting it to work, and the judgment leadership still demands. Follow along as I explore.

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