... outcomes instead of engagement. We removed three features that quarter. We simplified two screens. Our session length dropped. Our DAU dipped slightly. And our NPS went from 34 to 61. The hardest part was trusting the process. Every instinct from years of building products told us that declining engagement metrics meant something was wrong. But we had to keep reminding ourselves: the goal is not to keep people in the app. The goal is to help them understand themselves better ... ... they set out to do that day? That is much harder to measure but infinitely more meaningful. When you stopped tracking engagement, what did you start tracking instead? Comment from Delaney Rose(@delaney_rose1): How do you balance simple vs

... What s your AI dependency fear if you have one? What skill will matter most in 2 years: coding, prompting, or product taste? I ll start: I can ship 5 faster now, but I m paranoid about losing debug instincts and lazy architecture choices. What s your take? Comment from Globasoft(@globasoft): Good topic. I m new on PH and just wrote my first comment before this one. I m personally here to extract what I have been brewing ... ... coding to judgment and taste. Speed has improved massively, but I d never fully outsource architecture, UX decisions, or critical thinking that s where long-term quality comes from. The real risk isn t AI replacing skills, but dulling instincts

... while DSA tests analytical rigor, it also wires thinking into strict, logical frames. Creativity lives outside those frames. Problem-solving and creating experiences are two entirely different games. And sometimes, forcing a purely analytical mindset can quietly erode creative instincts the very instincts