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Developed perspectives, longer essays, and structured arguments on AI, product judgment, discovery, and building with modern tools.
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Long-form pieces with a fuller argument, more structure, and a slower reading pace.
May 7, 2026
9 min readWhat Is AI? How Does It Impact Us?
By Cristiano Pierry
AI is a new capability layer that can make product teams faster, more creative, and more effective, but only when paired with strategy, judgment, and responsible guardrails.
May 6, 2026
9 min readHow Much More Can We Do With the Same?
By Cristiano Pierry
AI changes how product teams ideate, prototype, evaluate, and launch. The real leadership challenge is turning that speed into better judgment and customer value.
May 1, 2026
2 min readThe Missing Layer in AI Adoption
By Cristiano Pierry
AI changes who can contribute. But only if companies remove the friction between having an idea and making something real.
Apr 28, 2026
4 min readMove Fast, But Don’t Break the Magic
By Cristiano Pierry
Why AI product teams need release systems that protect quality, trust, and the workflows users depend on.
Apr 26, 2026
6 min readHow AI Is Moving Team Collaboration Into Working Software
By Cristiano Pierry
AI-assisted development is making prototypes a shared workspace where teams can shape product ideas, narrative, and experience inside working software.
Apr 21, 2026
7 min readTaste, Trust, and Truth: How to Evaluate AI-Powered Discovery
By Cristiano Pierry
Once a discovery system starts speaking, accuracy alone is not enough. You have to evaluate fit, trustworthiness, and product impact together.
Apr 19, 2026
6 min readThe 5 Things AI Can't Replace
By Cristiano Pierry
AI creates abundance, but discovery decides what wins. Taste, context, exclusivity, trust, and distribution become scarcer and more valuable as model capability spreads.
Apr 14, 2026
7 min readHow I Would Train a New PM for an AI-Native Discovery Team
By Cristiano Pierry
A ninety-day approach to product management in search, personalization, experimentation, and learning for AI-native discovery teams.
Apr 13, 2026
4 min readThe Early Adopter Tax
By Cristiano Pierry
The real return from early AI adoption is not mastering temporary tactics. It is building the judgment to evaluate, redesign, and govern the work before the tools make it look easy.
Apr 3, 2026
5 min readHow We Are Failing the Next Generation
By Cristiano Pierry
Too many companies treat early-talent recruiting as a low-accountability process, creating candidate experiences we would never tolerate in our own products.
Mar 28, 2026
4 min readProgrammer vs. Computer Scientist
By Cristiano Pierry
Why AI getting better at writing code does not make computer science less valuable; it makes depth of judgment more important.
Mar 24, 2026
4 min readThe Future of Git in the Age of LLM Coding
By Cristiano Pierry
We stopped thinking about saving documents. We will stop thinking about committing code. Source control is about to become invisible.
Mar 17, 2026
9 min readLessons from Building with AI: Developing the Connect-K Game
By Cristiano Pierry and Marcelo Pierry
From a 3D cube in space to a published multiplayer experience — key lessons on working with AI coding tools that every builder should know.
Mar 11, 2026
8 min readHow AI Tools Are Raising the Bar for PMs
By Cristiano Pierry
What building software with my son taught me about the future of product management when the gap between idea and working software collapses.
Mar 9, 2026
4 min readHow New Graduates Can Win in an AI World
By Cristiano Pierry
Entry-level roles aren't disappearing — they're becoming more technical, more autonomous, and more outcome-oriented. Here's where aspiring PMs should focus.
Feb 14, 2026
4 min readLean In, Learn, Build: How Did You Become a Better Product Manager This Week?
By Cristiano Pierry
The age of AGI is here. For product managers, the very nature of our profession is undergoing a fundamental shift. Will the traditional PM even exist 18 months from now?
Feb 8, 2026
2 min readPython or Lovable? The Role of Modern AI Tooling in Product Management
By Cristiano Pierry
Should aspiring Product Managers invest in learning Python, or double down on modern AI tools like Lovable, v0, and Replit?
May 4, 2025
2 min readHow LLMs Are Revolutionizing the Search Experience: A Real-World Example
By Cristiano Pierry
A bike helmet shopping journey shows how LLMs are transforming search from a list of results into an intelligent conversation.