For 21+ years I've helped tech teams turn developer & customer intelligence into product strategy, grounded in cognitive psychology and a habit of testing my assumptions. I help build communities, and the teams that run them.
My Mac Mini (M2 Pro, 16 GB) kept choking when running many parallel LLM sessions + local test suites. Needed way more memory ➡️ swap overflowed ➡️ trashed the CPU ➡️ many forced tea breaks for me 😅
Meanwhile my game PC has 48 GB RAM + RTX 5070 and was doing.... nothing. 👀
Time to make same changes 🧵👇
I don't really get the use of LLM /loops mostly.
Seems like a huge waste of tokens to use it for everything under the sun? Why not use hooks/triggers when something happens? Write a script to check something and only when it does, then you can wake you agent and have it do something?
I lean on two things that don't always sit together: a
cognitive-psychology
read on how developers and customers actually behave, and an
experimentation habit (those
500+ A/B tests
at Randstad & JDE) to check what works instead of guessing. I'm
still learning, mostly in the open.
Cognitive psychology
Why developers and customers actually behave the way they do.
Business experimentation
500+ A/B tests at Randstad & JDE. Measure what matters, prove what works.
Community building
Helped grow the Joomla!, Magento, CRO.CAFE and Spryker communities.
(AI) automation
Reliable AI workflows and local-first tooling that earns its keep.
Guido has a rare ability to translate community insights into tangible business intelligence, and to bring the business closer to the community.
Svitlana Kulynych Head of Learning Experience, Spryker
· worked with me at Spryker
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"At Spryker, Guido became one of the key figures driving our community's success. [...] his events not only highlighted Spryker's architectural strengths but also created an atmosphere of energy, fun, and inspiration."
"Guido is an excellent public speaker who gives his audience practical tips on how to create a company culture that embraces evidence-based decision making."
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