REIMAGINING DISCOVERY IN AN AI-FIRST WORLD
Cristiano Pierry
AI product executive, builder, and writer working on how people discover content—and how AI changes the way product teams build.
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Featured Writing
A focused collection on the future of streaming discovery, AI-native product leadership, trustworthy evaluation, and making complex systems understandable.
The Discovery Brain: Where LLMs Can Strengthen Streaming Recommendations
LLM-native discovery can unify streaming recommendations when grounded catalog truth, governed memory, validation, and feedback protect user trust.
Modernizing Discovery and Promotion in Personalized Products
Modern discovery systems balance personal relevance, popularity, momentum, and strategic intent without letting promotion overwhelm user value.
The Product Manager’s New Operating System
AI-native product work rewards PMs who can turn intent into artifacts, inspect evidence, and own judgment across faster operating loops.
Taste, Trust, and Truth: How to Evaluate AI-Powered Discovery
Once a discovery system starts speaking, accuracy alone is not enough. You have to evaluate fit, trustworthiness, and product impact together.
The Art of Making Algorithms Understandable
AI product managers need faithful explanatory artifacts that turn complex recommendation systems into reviewable behavior, not just static requirements.
Developed thinking
Latest Articles
Longer essays with a fuller argument, more structure, and a slower reading pace.
My AI Product Manager Needed a Process
Oct 22, 2026
The AI product manager experiment exposed a coordination problem. Infinite Queue and an orchestrator give our AI agents defined roles and a workflow to follow.
Orchestrating the Software Lifecycle
Oct 21, 2026
Building an AI system to coordinate the software lifecycle, with human judgment at key decisions.
I Hired an AI Product Manager. Then I Had to Take the Project Back.
Oct 19, 2026
The Aviary Frog shipped; the parallel work that followed grew hard to reconcile, and I took the project back.
Timely reflections
Latest Notes
Shorter observations, experiments, and working thoughts that stay close to the moment.
Let’s Burn Some Tokens
Oct 22, 2026
An unexpected OpenAI usage reset feels like a can of Red Bull at 7:00 in the morning.
We Can Ask Bigger Questions Now
Oct 21, 2026
AI’s contributions to mathematics make me want to ask bigger questions about what product teams could build together.
I Want My Team Asking for More AI Capacity
Oct 20, 2026
Requests for more AI capacity can reveal meaningful adoption, but growing budgets need evidence that the work is improving.
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Longer-form photography, field guides, and writing collections designed for calm, focused reading.
About
AI product and technology executive with CPO, founder, and large-scale platform leadership across streaming, e-commerce, digital media, mobile, and web search. I focus on AI-powered discovery, personalization, search, recommendations, experimentation, and responsible product strategy at consumer scale.
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