Start with a simple premise: AI is not the goal. Better business outcomes are the goal. That framing sounds obvious until you watch how often it gets reversed in practice. AI is exciting, budgets are… Read More »AI is not the goal of an AI transformation
One of the most interesting panels at the Ai4 conference this year was about building the future of medicine with AI, and I came away feeling like I had watched two conversations happen at once.… Read More »AI is learning to program biology. What happens next?
PayPal offers one of the more grounded examples of what it takes to turn AI capability into real outcomes when the thing it moves is money. PayPal operates at a scale that makes the stakes… Read More »Case Study: How PayPal turns AI capability into actual outcomes
Delivering an exceptional customer experience requires a strong data catalog. This is behind-the-scenes work, and it is fundamental to building a great product. Instacart offers one of the more grounded examples of applied machine learning… Read More »Instacart: Data Catalog Powered by AI
There’s a conversation I have regularly with product managers who are shipping their first AI-powered features. It usually starts with something like: “We tested it thoroughly and it looked great. But now that it’s live,… Read More »Your QA Process Is Broken for AI Products
Can a 3-person pod enabled with AI perform the work of a former Scrum team? A company is experimenting with a new product model to test this hypothesis. What is the role of the Product… Read More »The End of the Product Owner? One Company’s Bold AI Experiment
We need to shift building web apps toward supporting AI Agents first. Today I listened to a talk on a shift so fundamental it should be keeping every product manager and founder up at night:… Read More »Overcoming Product Ego Death: Designing for the B2A Web
AI for Product Managers is not about knowing how to use ChatGPT but it’s about leveraging AI for strategic decision-making for your product. AI is everywhere. So are AI training programs: it seems like every… Read More »There is no AI without Product Thinking
Product Managers have always struggled with the same core challenge: turning messy ideas into clear, actionable requirements. AI changes that, but only if you use it correctly. Used well, AI can dramatically accelerate how you… Read More »How to Use AI to Write Better PRDs (6 Practical Patterns)
The friction that used to protect us from building the wrong things is disappearing. With vibe-coding, “Yes” is too easy. This is the new “Zero-Marginal-Cost Feature Trap.” There is a specific kind of euphoria that… Read More »Vibe-Coding is Resurrecting the Feature Factory
