Gareth Paul Jones

Hello, I’m Gareth.

I still code because it is often the shortest route from a fuzzy idea to an honest conversation.

I’m a Product Lead, AI at Poe / Quora. I like the part where research meets a real product: deciding what good behavior looks like, finding a way to test it, and staying close enough to the work to build the first version.

This website has been online since 2002, when it was first hosted on Geocities. I have designed and built every version myself. The stack changes; the impulse to keep a small patch of the internet personal does not.

I don’t publish on a schedule. I spend most of my spare time with my wife and daughter; the rest tends to disappear into building, livestreaming, golf, or taking something apart to understand it.

Thanks for stopping by,Gareth

And if you’re here for the work history…
  1. Poe / Quora · Aug 2024–presentProduct Lead, AI
  2. Zoom · Sep 2023–Aug 2024Research Product Manager — AI Companion, Speech & Applied ML
  3. Twilio · Apr 2020–Sep 2023Group Product Manager, Developer Experience — API Platform, SDKs & CLI
  4. Foursquare · Aug 2016–Apr 2020Product & Engineering Lead — Places API & Partner Ecosystem
  5. Twitter · Sep 2013–Aug 2016Developer Relations Lead — Twitter API & Fabric
  6. Apple · Sep 2011–Sep 2013Product Manager, iTunes / App Store API
  7. Google · Sep 2009–Sep 2011Associate Product Manager — DoubleClick Ad Exchange & API Ecosystem

A couple of things to leave you with.

30 Apps in 30 Days

“During my entire life I’ve loved making things and I enjoy a good challenge.” In 2015, I built and shipped a mobile app every day for a month.

An account of the challenge · June 4, 2015

Evals for AI Agents

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

A video walkthrough

More writing →