Gareth Paul Jones
Product Lead, AI at Poe / Quora

AI products,
from the
developer side.

I'm Gareth Paul Jones. Before AI product work at Poe, I led developer experience across Twilio's APIs, SDKs, and command-line tooling.

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A study of the tangible tools around technical work.
Currently: model behavior → usable products.Previously: developer tools, APIs, and platform ecosystems.

Thinking in public

Three talks on practical AI work.

Featured / Evaluation

Evals for
AI Agents

A practical look at testing agents against the work we actually expect them to do.

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THE PRODUCT QUESTIONWhat work do we actually expect the agent to do?
Model behavior

Building a Multi-Signal Reward Function

Working through how several imperfect signals can produce a more useful training objective.

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Managing Coding Agents with Swimlanes

An operating model for keeping parallel coding agents legible, scoped, and moving.

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Experience

Product, engineering, and developer relations have given me different perspectives on how technology becomes useful.

AI / 2023–present

Poe + Zoom

AI product leadership at Poe. Previously, research product work on AI Companion, speech, and applied ML at Zoom.

Poe / Quora 2024–now
Zoom 2023–2024
Tools / 2020–2023

Twilio

Group Product Manager, Developer Experience. API platform, SDKs, and CLI.

Platforms / 2016–2020

Foursquare

Product and engineering lead for the Places API and partner ecosystem.

Earlier chapters
Twitter · Developer Relations Lead · 2013–2016Apple · Product Manager · 2011–2013Google · Associate Product Manager · 2009–2011