Pete Roome

In February 2025, Andrej Karpathy posted a tweet about a new way of working he called “vibe coding.”

Last month I built an internal tool that uses LLMs to map vehicle specifications to parts catalogue codes.

As a product manager, not only do I have to get shit done, but I also have to get the right shit done.

Hello 👋, I’m Pete and I’ve been working on a side-project to 100% automate my family’s grocery shopping.

So it’s been almost a month since my first post about how I am automating my family’s grocery shopping - and a lot has changed in the world.

I love food and I love cooking, but I loathe grocery shopping.

One of the first lessons you learn as a product manager is to build the right solution, you first need to speak to the people who are experiencing the problem you are solving.

Like a lot of startups, the end of one quarter and the start of another means planning - more specifically OKR planning.

A Rails architecture thing that I picked up this week… It’s easier to test and better practice to define helper methods in a helper file, rather than in a controller by using the helper_method method.

I’ve recently started to document my endeavours in getting my personalised print business off the ground and generating a bit more revenue.