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The era of the augmented architect

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Product managers are evolving from process coordinators to augmented architects: AI-powered builders who own strategy and commercial outcomes.

The product management landscape of this year is defined by convergence: pressure to build faster (Vibe Coding), generate cash (Revenue Accountability), and prove value (Founder Mode). The "Product Management is dead" narrative is hyperbolic, but the role is changing. The administrative, process-heavy layer is dying: automated by agents or eliminated by Founder Mode flattening. The traffic cop model doesn't survive when AI generates working prototypes in minutes. What survives is the core function: value creation....
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Feature Factories Build AI Wrappers, Product Orgs Build Moats

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Everyone's racing to add AI features. Few are building AI moats. The difference determines who's still competitive in 18 months.

Every company can call the OpenAI API. Every developer can wrap Claude in a decent UI. Every product team can ship "AI-powered" features in a sprint or two. The hard part isn't adding AI. It's building something users can't easily replicate elsewhere. The Wrapper Trap Integrating GPT-5 or Claude takes a weekend. Polish the UI, tune some prompts, add it to your feature list. Congratulations—you've built what a hundred competitors can build in the same...
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From 50 to 100: The Human Edge in an AI-Accelerated Product World

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AI can now take product teams from 50 to 90 faster than ever, but the final 10 still belongs to human intuition, judgment, and empathy.

AI has changed the pace of product development. What once took months now takes weeks. We can ship prototypes in days, test them with users, and iterate instantly. The acceleration is real. But speed creates a new tension. If AI can take us from 50 to 90 in quality and execution, what does it take to reach 100? That final stretch, the space between something that works and something that resonates, is where human judgment...
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The Strategy-Outcome Connection: Moving Beyond the Feature Roadmap

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How product managers can move beyond feature roadmaps to build strategy-driven outcomes, handle stakeholder pressure, and make sharper prioritization decisions.

The loudest voice problem If you’ve ever owned a roadmap, you’ve likely faced this. A senior leader walks into your review and says, “We need to build this feature next quarter.” The statement carries weight. It comes from experience, hierarchy, and often, conviction. You might even agree at first. Maybe you think, “Let’s build it once to gain trust.” Sometimes that’s a fair trade. But most times, that’s how the loudest voice in the room...
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Notes on the Modern Product Leader’s Playbook

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Notes on strategy, speed, and why modern product leadership is a leverage game.

Watched Jiaona Zhang’s Reforge talk on product leadership. It’s a dense one — part philosophy, part tactical operating manual. These are the notes (and reactions) I don’t want to forget. We’re in an in-between moment where PMs are both strategists and builders again. Jiaona calls it a new playbook, but it’s really a reminder that our leverage has changed. Mindset: From Managing to Skating Where the Puck Is The core shift is from execution to...
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The Factory Robot for Apps

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Cloudflare’s VibeSDK acts like a factory robot for apps. It turns plain language into live software while teams stay focused on customer value.

Cloudflare announced a game-changing open source AI vibe-coding platform: VibeSDK. Think of it like a factory robot that understands plain language and builds the gadget you describe. You walk into a high-tech workshop and say, “I need a device that tracks expenses with clear charts.” The robot designs the blueprint, picks the parts, assembles the device, tests it, and rolls out a working demo in minutes. You request a tweak, and it updates the device...
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Level Up or Get Left Behind by AI

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Walmart and Accenture show why AI is an existential risk for workers who don’t adapt, but also a chance to reinvent work for the better.

The sugarcoating is over. Walmart’s CEO Doug McMillon says, “AI is going to change literally every job.” Accenture’s CEO Julie Sweet is blunt too — some employees will be retrained, others will be exited. The world’s biggest employers are making it clear: if workers don’t adapt, they risk being left behind. The Existential Risk The risk is not just about losing jobs, but about jobs losing relevance. At Walmart, warehouse automation is already cutting some...
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Claude Now Builds Spreadsheets and Documents

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Claude now generates real files—Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and PDFs—from prompts.

Claude just got a big upgrade. According to Anthropic’s announcement, it can now create real files: Excel spreadsheets, Word documents, PowerPoint decks, even PDFs—straight from your prompts (whether you're working in Claude.ai or the desktop app). Here's how Anthropic puts it: Turn data into insights: Give Claude raw data and get back polished outputs with cleaned data, statistical analysis, charts, and written insights explaining what matters. Build spreadsheets: Describe what you need—financial models with scenario...
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OpenAI’s GPT-realtime Brings a Step Forward in Voice AI

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OpenAI’s GPT-realtime unifies voice AI into a single model. See why its technical leap and early adopters make this the moment voice AI goes mainstream.

For years, voice AI has felt like a half-step behind its text-based counterpart. The standard architecture relied on a clunky chain: speech-to-text, a language model for reasoning, then text-to-speech. The result was often laggy, robotic, and disconnected from the flow of natural conversation. OpenAI’s new GPT-realtime changes that dynamic. By unifying speech recognition, reasoning, and speech synthesis into a single model, it eliminates the pauses and disconnects that made past systems frustrating. The model not...
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AI in Product Management

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AI is moving fast in product management, from PRDs to prototypes. Here’s what research shows, what’s missing, and how PMs can lead.

AI in product management is no longer a question of if. It is a when. And when we say 'when,' we are not talking about years. We are talking months, given the pace of innovation and adoption. A new study in Management Review Quarterly, “Where does AI play a major role in the new product development and product management process?” by Aron Witkowski and Andrzej Wodecki, maps out the current state of AI in product...
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Agentic Browsers Meet Their Hardest Test: Security

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Agentic browsers face significant security risks, such as prompt injection, but early defenses demonstrate why security will be the true differentiator.

Claude for Chrome (now in pilot), Perplexity’s Comet, and Dia are all pushing the idea of a browser that doesn’t just display pages but acts within them. But as soon as you let an AI click, type, and execute, the hardest problem comes into view: security. The quiet threat of prompt injection Anthropic deserves credit for going deep on vulnerabilities in its Claude for Chrome pilot. “Some vulnerabilities remain to be fixed before we can...
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Curiosity Beats Tenure in the Age of AI

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Junior developers’ curiosity and adaptability make them the most AI-native talent. Cutting them now risks weakening future innovation.

Key Takeaway The jury is still out on whether AI will replace or empower software developers, but dismissing junior talent is a short-sighted approach. Their curiosity and adaptability make them the best positioned to thrive in an AI-driven future—qualities that matter more than years of experience. Why This Matters AI is reshaping the nature of engineering work. Leaders face pressure to cut costs and experiment with automation. Some argue junior developers are the most “replaceable”...
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Observability Now Includes Watching AI

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AI observability means monitoring accuracy, drift, and hallucinations, not just uptime. PMs must treat it as a core product feature.

When product managers think of observability, they usually mean uptime, latency, or error rates. But as AI becomes central to user experiences, that definition must expand. Observability now includes monitoring model accuracy, hallucinations, prompt injection, and real-time behavior. As Datadog’s CPO Yanbing Li notes, AI systems add a new layer of complexity to enterprise monitoring. Why AI demands a new observability lens Traditional software is deterministic. If a server or a function fails, you can...
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Build, Buy, or AI-Build

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Vibe-coding opens a new AI-build path, but Marty Cagan’s point on business rules shows its limits. Can AI ever capture this hidden and complex logic?

In my recent post on build vs buy in the age of vibe-coding, I argued that the classic binary is breaking down. Thanks to generative AI tools, teams now face a third option: AI-build. Instead of waiting for engineering capacity or relying entirely on vendors, product managers can prototype, test, and even wire together solutions themselves using natural language. Marty Cagan just published a piece on build vs buy in the age of AI. He...
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AI Risks to SaaS Companies

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Generative + Agentic AI is accelerating feature commoditization; read the room and adapt.

The press around AI putting pressure on well-established SaaS companies is gaining some momentum. Note: We are not discussing specific stocks and valuations. Our focus is on the impact of AI on software companies. Analyst Ratings Published 08/11/2025… "Melius Research downgraded Adobe… warns of ongoing multiple compression for software-as-a-service companies… ‘AI is eating software’ …” AI isn’t a shiny add-on anymore. It’s like a sneaky wave that’s pushing SaaS valuations lower. Investors see that and...
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Product Managers Who Think in Systems Will Survive the AI Era

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AI is reshaping product management. Learn how to map, optimize, and automate your systems before someone else does it for you.

AI is not a side trend. It is changing the work of product managers right now. Elena Verna wrote about eliminating her own job in Growth by automating 101. Read it in full. Her point was simple. If you automate yourself, you survive. If you do not, you are replaced. She was right on. But for product managers, this is not only about using a few AI tools. It is about thinking in systems. Your...
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Modernizing the Product Requirements Process

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PRDs aren’t dead—they’re evolving. Learn how to modernize product requirements with outcome focus, living documents, and AI-powered prototyping.

Few artifacts in product management are as debated as the Product Requirements Document (PRD). Once a cornerstone of software development, the PRD has been dismissed by many as a relic of the waterfall era. Agile evangelists often claimed that documentation slowed teams down, stifled creativity, and created rigid contracts rather than flexible collaboration. Yet the pendulum has swung too far. In many organizations, the absence of structured requirements has led to chaos: misaligned expectations, duplicated...
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