We don’t talk enough about the "mental tax" of rapid AI advancement. To stay effective, you have to reset your assumptions about what models can do every 6–8 weeks. If you’re still prompting like it’s 2025, you’re leaving 50% of the model's potential on the table. #AI

There are moments in tech that felt like magic. 🪄 1️⃣ First time using a GUI. 2️⃣ First time using a smartphone. 3️⃣ Watching Claude Code translate a natural language prompt into a functional PR. We’re finally speaking to computers in our language. #AI

Common MVP mistake: "What can we cut to ship faster?" ❌ MVP mindset: "What is the fastest way to test our hypothesis?" ✅ Focus on the Return on Learning, not just the time to market

How to actually build an MVP: Step 1: Define what you need to prove (The Hypothesis). Step 2: Identify the smallest path to truth (The Build). Step 3: Measure the result (The Learning). The goal isn't "minimal features." It's maximum insight. #ProductManagement #MVP

Traditional software is a contract. AI is a conversation. One is about certainty; the other is about confidence scores.

PRDs that no one reads still have value; they force you to clarify your own thinking. The document is the byproduct. The clarity is the point. #ProductManagement

The best PMs don't just solve their own problems; they sense when their frustration is everyone's frustration. That spidey sense for "this annoys me AND probably annoys 10,000 others" is what separates feature factories from real product instinct. #ProductManagement

Best products come from watching how users abuse yours. Facebook Marketplace wasn't planned; it emerged from people selling in groups. Facebook Dating from profile-stalking patterns. The magic isn't in your roadmap. It's in discovering what users are already trying to do.

AI skills are now non‑optional for “modern humans." #AI

Proactive AI agents require: 👁️ Observation: Deep context on the work & workflow 🧠 Personalization: Learning your habits ⏱️ Timeliness: Intervening just at the right moment 💻 Seamless Integration: Living naturally within your workspace www.youtube.com/watc... #AI

Jevons Paradox for Software: Cheaper software does not mean less software spending. It means dramatically MORE software. When the friction and cost to build drop (thanks, AI agents!), organizations satisfy their huge, unmet automation needs by building dozens of new tools. #AI

Let agents “live” where work already happens, reducing friction and trust barriers www.youtube.com/watc... #AI

New blog post! ✨ I argue that AI will make formal verification go mainstream. martin.kleppmann.com/2025/12/08/a... Three reasons for this: 1. LLMs are getting increasingly good at writing proofs using proof assistants. This will make formal verification vastly cheaper than it's been to date.

Stop trying to learn AI theory. Pick one tool, integrate it into one daily workflow; meeting notes, PRD reviews, SQL queries. Use it for 30 days straight. #ProductManagement #AI

Why AGI Will Not Happen

Use AI to challenge your PRD, not write it. Ask AI to find assumptions and edge cases you missed. You stay the author, AI is your toughest reviewer. #ProductManagement #AI

A great product team is a well-oiled machine, and the PM is the oil. www.linkedin.com/pul... #ProductManagement

The gap between AI hype and AI value? Understanding which repetitive, rules-based workflows actually benefit from automation versus which need human judgment. #ProductManagement #AI

Traditional acceptance criteria break with AI. Nondeterministic outputs need continuous evals, not one-time sign-offs. Your QA process is now an ongoing loop, not a gate. #ProductManagement #AI

The best AI feature isn't the smartest one. It's the one that users trust because they understand why it made that recommendation and can correct it. #ProductManagement #AI

Wild how AI reversed the software economics playbook. Used to be: ship code, maybe patch it occasionally, collect checks Now: constantly tuning prompts, monitoring outputs, managing costs Turns out AI systems need more ongoing care than traditional software ever did 👀 #AI

Has the cost of building software just dropped 90%? martinalderson.com/p... #AI

AI tools won't replace PMs. But they'll expose the ones who never learned to think strategically beyond making tickets. #ProductManagement #AI

PMs who use AI for prototyping aren't replacing engineers. They're validating ideas faster and having better conversations about what's actually worth building. #ProductManagement #AI

When engineers resist AI, it's not fear of job loss. It's usually bad AI forced into workflows without their input. Involve them early or watch adoption fail. #AI

When a PM looks at a feature and immediately knows it’s wrong, they’re not being mystical. Their brain is processing hundreds of micro-signals: user flow friction, business model misalignment, etc. Years of experience get compressed into a split-second gut reaction cwodtke.com/building-pro...

Intelligence inversion: For all of human history, intelligence was a form of labor, scarce and locked inside human skulls. Now, for the first time, intelligence has become a form of capital. It can be copied infinitely. It improves recursively. https://ii.inc #AI

Use AI to pressure-test feature ideas against real-world challenges: generate multiple solution options, compare them, map dependencies, and understand team impacts before committing to development. #AI #ProductManagement

Dealing with people with big egos: Quick Tactics: Give credit strategically: Let them own the win. Frame your idea as theirs or a collaboration. Reduces resistance, ships faster. #ProductManagement #Ego 1/7

I totally agree with you. This is how it should be. And yet, we have so many people including many product influencers who talk about "AI-powered", and “AI” first etc. as if somehow that is the goal. It's a heavy rock to push back on, but I'm with you on this. I'm sure there are others as well.

Focus is the raw material of deep thinking. Invest in it wisely. #Focus

"Will AI write all our product specs?" It won't. It'll draft a mediocre first pass that you'll spend 2 hours fixing. Net time saved: 30 minutes. Have the right expectations. #AI #ProductManagement

Stop shipping "AI" as a feature. Embed it in workflows where it removes friction. AI that works is invisible to the user. #AI

Upgraded my content discovery bot from ChatGPT 4o to 5. Run cost: 3x higher. GPT-5 uses "reasoning tokens" before answering. Great for complex problems. Overkill for "summarize these articles." Panicked and went back to 4o. Match the model to the job. Not all AI are the same. #AI

Robinhood's simple product strategy: Determine how to make it as easy as possible to deposit and remove all reasons you would have from withdrawing your money The objective is to get all of a customer's assets into the platform. www.youtube.com/watc... #ProductManagement

Faceted search is dying and nobody noticed. I asked Amazon's Rufus AI, "Show me LED desk lamps under $25 with an AC power source." Got the answer in 15 seconds. No filters. No sorting. Just a question. That's the shift. #AI #ProductManagement

BEFORE AI: Recommendation engines said, "people like you also bought this" AFTER: AI says, "based on your life context, here's what you'll need next" We're moving from statistical associations to semantic understanding. Ads that used to feel random now anticipate your actual needs. #AI

Anyone can make a mistake, but only an idiot persists in their error.

AI won’t solve IT’s management problems spectrum.ieee.org/it-managemen... #AI

Look sharply after your thoughts. They come unlooked for, like a new bird seen in your trees, and, if you turn to your usual task, disappear - Ralph Waldo Emerson

“AI is whatever machines can’t do yet.” — Larry Tesler, 1970

"We need an AI feature" isn't a product requirement. It's a senior executive who read a headline and a PM who now has to add LLMs to a perfectly functional solution. Start with the problem. AI might not be the answer. #ProductManagement #AI

“A brain that doesn’t feed itself eats itself." - Gore Vidal Your brain needs challenge, novelty, and purpose. Starve it, and it will feast on doubt. Feed it, and it will build worlds.

While monthly GenAI usage is surging, daily active use is lagging significantly (<10%). We are building products that people are curious to try, but haven't yet found essential enough to open every morning. The next big unlock is finding the daily use case. www.ben-evans.com/s/... #AI

"Let's prioritize this bug" is a command. "Fixing this bug unblocks x use case for n customers. What options do we have?" is priority alignment One builds resentment. The other builds ownership. #ProductManagement 

AI eats the world static1.squarespace.com/static/50363... #AI

What would your team do if resources were unlimited? AI agents are turning that question into reality. No more pruning ideas before they start. No more "too expensive to try" The biggest opportunities aren't in replacing humans, they're in doing the work we never attempted #AI #ProductManagement

The Bottleneck Shifts: In the past, startup speed was limited by how fast founders could type code or documents. Now, founders manage and orchestrate work done by AI agents; the only limit is how quickly they can review, edit, and deploy what AI creates.

Hank Zeller on creativity: “When you realize that you just came up with an idea that betters anything that has been done, well, your hair stands up on end, you feel an incredible sense of awe; it’s almost as if you heard a whisper from God.”

AIs Are Plural, Not Singular There isn’t one single, monolithic AI but many distinct types and species. Each model has its own traits and strengths, with different models designed for specialized purposes #AI