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AI

What AI changes about products, product work, and the tools we use to build.

Do my hard-won product skills still matter in the AI era?

What AI changes about product work — and why judgment, craft, and customer understanding matter more than ever.

Sep 26Career

Taste is a skill, not a gift

Everyone’s saying taste is essential in the age of AI. What exactly is it, and how can you develop yours?

Aug 27Design

A team of "Full Stack Builders" is like a band of only drummers

AI lets anyone on a product team build almost anything. That doesn't make the team obsolete. It makes the team more important.

Aug 18Managing Teams

Software architecture for non-technical builders

You don't need to be a mechanic to drive a car — but when the AI stalls, it helps to know what's under the hood.

Jul 7Prototyping

AI doesn't make your job easier.

Building software has never been cheaper. Doing product management well has never been harder. AI didn’t take the PM job — it exposed the one we should have been doing all along.

Jun 9Product

How to stop tokenmaxxing and cut AI spend 10x

Three fixes to reduce token burn and improve ROI.

Jun 4AI

From 10x people to 10x teams

The first wave of AI was single-player. The next wave is multiplayer.

Jun 2Managing Teams

OpenAI has the smarter model. Anthropic is winning anyway.

Anthropic figured out something OpenAI didn't — and it has nothing to do with the model.

May 19Markets & Competition

Building AI products: Lessons from Productboard Spark

A detailed look at how one team navigated the hard calls: figuring out where AI actually fits, shipping ahead of customers, and building quality through rigorous evaluation & iteration.

Jan 29AI

Building AI products competitors can't match

How do you win when everyone has access to the same AI models?

Sep 25AI

Is your product at risk of Product Market Fit Collapse?

Why are some companies vulnerable to AI disruption while others stand on solid ground? This question is critical—not just to help you understand the risk—but to help you figure out how to respond.

Jul 24Markets & Competition

Take your AI images to the next level

A guide to writing prompts to generate AI images that don't look so... um... AI generated.

Jul 13Design

How AI is supercharging every phase of the PM lifecycle

AI is not just changing the products we build; it's reshaping how we build them. For product managers, this is less like a threat and more like rocket fuel for our capabilities.

Jul 10AI

The Great AI Rebundling

How AI turned once-distinct companies into direct competitors overnight—and why Figma now battles PowerPoint, Canva, Webflow, Miro, Illustrator, and Cursor all at once.

May 23Markets & Competition

How to work like an AI-first PM

Prototypes are the new PRD... use vibe coding to write better specs and build better products.

Apr 27Product

Tool Augmented Generation: 2025 is the year AI learns to use your product

As a product builder, you need to stay ahead of the AI curve. In this post, I discuss where AI is going and how to keep your product at the frontier.

Dec 19AI

Will AI kill Product Management?

PMs have been facing an existential crisis. It started with the tech layoffs and got worse when Airbnb eliminated the traditional PM role. In the face of AI, is product management dead?

Dec 5Career

Shifting to an AI mindset

Why building products will never be the same

Sep 19AI

Strawberry Jam: A quick hacking session with OpenAI's new model

An afternoon's work done in 7 seconds.

Sep 13Prototyping

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