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Where the Smartest Model Belongs
Aug 13, 2026
Model routing should follow the cost of being wrong: concentrate frontier reasoning where errors spread, then bound the remaining work with explicit contracts and evidence.
When Source Code Outruns Human Review
Aug 4, 2026
As AI-generated code outgrows human attention, trust will shift from routine source inspection to evidence, controls, and risk-based escalation.
When the Idea Answers Back
Jul 30, 2026
Language compresses a product idea. AI gives high-agency product people more power to build enough of it to explore, learn from its behavior, and discover what the original words left out.
The A/B Test That Lies
Jul 28, 2026
A/B tests can establish causal movement, but teams still need a metric hierarchy that distinguishes local engagement from durable product trust.
Your Team Needs Fewer Dashboards and More Dials
Jul 23, 2026
Metrics become management only when teams connect signals to authorized controls, decision rights, guardrails, and a memory of what happened next.
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Your AI Coworker Should Know Which Doors It Can Open
Jul 21, 2026
A product manager should understand the business consequence of an action. They should not have to become a systems administrator before asking an AI tool to help with their work.
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AI Agents Need Breakpoints
Jul 18, 2026
Codex can order queued turns, but it cannot yet express a durable approval gate between them or constrain the current turn to the phase the user intended.
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What Should an AI Be Allowed to Know?
Jul 18, 2026
An AI AMA earns trust by separating general expertise from personal claims, screening every runtime surface, and treating privacy failures as release blockers.
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The Art of Making Algorithms Understandable
Jul 14, 2026
AI product managers need faithful explanatory artifacts that turn complex recommendation systems into reviewable behavior, not just static requirements.
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One Task, Multiple Agents, One Continuous Loop
Jul 13, 2026
Trustworthy multi-agent systems emerge from evidence contracts, interruption rights, recovery paths, and human feedback—not from parallelism alone.
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I Knew What AI Could Do. I Forgot to Think That Way.
Jul 12, 2026
AI-forward thinking begins by questioning inherited architecture: let models interpret raw evidence, deterministic systems constrain and test it, and humans own the decision boundary.
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The Best AI Will Not Ask You to Choose a Model
Jul 10, 2026
AI products will earn broader adoption when they translate user intent into the right capability, instead of making people configure the machinery.
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Don’t Inherit the Tool. Inherit the System.
Jul 8, 2026
AI-assisted work becomes portable when teams preserve runnable systems, clear decisions, tests, and documentation beyond any one tool.
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The Discovery Brain: Where LLMs Can Strengthen Streaming Recommendations
Jul 7, 2026
LLM-native discovery can unify streaming recommendations when grounded catalog truth, governed memory, validation, and feedback protect user trust.
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The Camera Is Becoming Software
Jul 6, 2026
Software is turning cameras into adaptive capture systems, pushing dedicated gear toward high-intent work while phones own everyday memory.
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Fit for Purpose: Choosing the Right Quality Bar
Jul 3, 2026
Teams move faster when precision serves the user experience, not internal certainty, and good enough means fit for purpose.
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Modernizing Discovery and Promotion in Personalized Products
Jul 1, 2026
Modern discovery systems balance personal relevance, popularity, momentum, and strategic intent without letting promotion overwhelm user value.
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Why Strong PMs Are Becoming Builders
Jun 29, 2026
AI is drawing product managers closer to systems, prototypes, evaluation, and the cross-functional judgment required to shape them well.
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The Builder Team: How AI Changes the Shape of Product Development
Jun 25, 2026
AI-native product teams can reduce handoffs through builder pods with stronger shared context, executable specs, earlier evaluation, and clear human ownership.
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The Modern Wildlife Photography Mindset: Protect the Shutter Speed, Trust the ISO
Jun 22, 2026
A sharp, slightly noisy wildlife image usually beats a clean miss; modern cameras make that exposure tradeoff easier to trust.
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The Evaluation Layer Is Becoming the Product
Jun 22, 2026
AI product teams need evaluation as a visible product surface, not a late report card, because fluent demos can hide weak or unsafe judgment.
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The Work Is Not Done Until It Is Reviewable
Jun 21, 2026
AI-assisted work is only mature when the artifact carries a review surface: intent, evidence, checks, privacy, and human judgment.
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The Product Manager’s New Operating System
Jun 8, 2026
AI-native product work rewards PMs who can turn intent into artifacts, inspect evidence, and own judgment across faster operating loops.
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Building a Photographer’s Guide with LLMs
Jun 7, 2026
A Bosque photography guide becomes a product case study in turning messy research into trusted, structured, useful AI-assisted artifacts.
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The AI Adoption Gap Is Becoming a Planning Problem
Jun 5, 2026
AI-assisted teams and traditional planning rituals are now using different clocks, forcing organizations to recalibrate estimates, expectations, and execution habits.
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We Risk Building the Wrong Things Faster
May 27, 2026
AI can help companies build faster, but without sharper product judgment, stronger architecture, and outcome-based measurement, they risk creating more software without more user value.
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AI Homework
May 26, 2026
AI adoption becomes real when teams rebuild one recurring workflow around sharper intent, visible evidence, verification, and human-owned judgment.
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Human Intent Is the Next Operating System
May 25, 2026
Frontier tools can become a new operating layer between human intent and digital services, reducing the cognitive load software has pushed onto users.
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The Next-Week AI Playbook
May 25, 2026
Teams can make AI adoption concrete by redesigning one real workflow around evidence, reviewable artifacts, and accountable human judgment.
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Why Conversation Will Become Part of Streaming Search
May 24, 2026
Streaming search is moving from exact-title retrieval toward conversational discovery that understands mood, context, constraints, and catalog truth.
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When AI Produces the Artifact, Measure the Work Beneath It
May 23, 2026
AI makes visible work artifacts cheaper, which raises the standard for judgment, accountability, and the real work underneath the work.
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The Frontier Recommendations PM
May 22, 2026
Frontier coding agents can help product managers connect user intent to algorithmic system behavior across recommendations, search, personalization, and AI discovery.
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Do More With the Same, Not the Same With Less
May 21, 2026
AI should help teams do more with the same people by reducing handoffs, increasing builder range, and giving product judgment more cycles.
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The 20/70/10 Rule for Working With AI
May 20, 2026
The 20/70/10 model keeps AI workflows fast without letting speed replace context, verification, judgment, or ownership.
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Why I Built Codex Log Viewer: Treating User Intent as a First-Class Audit Trail
May 19, 2026
Codex Log Viewer turns local Codex sessions into a searchable, privacy-conscious audit trail for the human intent behind AI-assisted software work.
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Using AI to Make Promotion Review Preparation More Consistent
May 13, 2026
An experimental workflow for making promotion review preparation more consistent and evidence-backed while preserving privacy, governance, and human accountability.
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What Is AI? How Does It Impact Us?
May 7, 2026
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.
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How Much More Can We Do With the Same?
May 6, 2026
AI changes how product teams ideate, prototype, evaluate, and launch. The real leadership challenge is turning that speed into better judgment and customer value.
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The Missing Layer in AI Adoption
May 1, 2026
AI changes who can contribute. But only if companies remove the friction between having an idea and making something real.
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Move Fast, But Don’t Break the Magic
Apr 28, 2026
Why AI product teams need release systems that protect quality, trust, and the workflows users depend on.
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How AI Is Moving Team Collaboration Into Working Software
Apr 26, 2026
AI-assisted development is making prototypes a shared workspace where teams can shape product ideas, narrative, and experience inside working software.
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Taste, Trust, and Truth: How to Evaluate AI-Powered Discovery
Apr 21, 2026
Once a discovery system starts speaking, accuracy alone is not enough. You have to evaluate fit, trustworthiness, and product impact together.
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Five Advantages That Matter More as AI Expands
Apr 19, 2026
As AI expands the supply of plausible outputs, taste, context, exclusivity, trust, and distribution become more important sources of durable value.
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How I Would Train a New PM for an AI-Native Discovery Team
Apr 14, 2026
A ninety-day approach to product management in search, personalization, experimentation, and learning for AI-native discovery teams.
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The Early Adopter Tax
Apr 13, 2026
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.
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What Early-Talent Recruiting Reveals About Leadership
Apr 3, 2026
Early-talent recruiting makes a company’s leadership standards visible through communication, follow-through, and respect for candidates’ time.
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Programmer vs. Computer Scientist
Mar 28, 2026
Why AI getting better at writing code does not make computer science less valuable; it makes depth of judgment more important.
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How LLM Coding Could Change Source Control
Mar 24, 2026
LLM coding tools could make version control less visible by capturing meaningful states, intent, and recovery paths as part of the work.
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Lessons from Building with AI: Developing the Connect-K Game
Mar 17, 2026
From a 3D cube in space to a published multiplayer experience — key lessons on working with AI coding tools that every builder should know.
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How AI Tools Are Raising the Bar for PMs
Mar 11, 2026
What building software with my son taught me about the future of product management when the gap between idea and working software collapses.
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How New Graduates Can Build Leverage in an AI World
Mar 9, 2026
Entry-level product work is changing, giving aspiring PMs new ways to demonstrate judgment, technical range, and end-to-end ownership.
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Lean In, Learn, Build: How Did You Become a Better Product Manager This Week?
Feb 14, 2026
Frontier AI is changing product work quickly, making continuous learning, practical building, and durable curiosity essential habits for PMs.
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Python or Lovable? The Role of Modern AI Tooling in Product Management
Feb 8, 2026
Should aspiring Product Managers invest in learning Python, or double down on modern AI tools like Lovable, v0, and Replit?
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How LLMs Can Improve the Search Experience: A Shopping Example
May 4, 2025
A bike helmet shopping journey shows where conversational search improves a decision and where missing constraints still weaken the result.