AI has made every individual step of building a product faster: research, requirements, documentation, prototyping. It has not yet made the product faster to build. The gap between those two facts is …
23 Million Horses Lost Their Jobs at the Peak of Demand
Every time someone worries AI will shrink their industry, someone else reaches for Jevons paradox. The argument: when something gets more efficient, people don't use less of it, they use more. Cheaper …
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Always Measuring the Wrong Thing
Bryan O'Neill, CTO of FormAssembly, wrote a piece tracing three decades of the same mistake: - In the 1990s, some companies paid engineers per line of code, and got bloated, unmaintainable software …
Code Isn’t Product: The Discovery Debt AI Is Creating
There is a number that does not appear in most AI productivity reports: the percentage of AI-accelerated products that customers actually use. I call this gap discovery debt. Rich Mironov recently …
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We’re Hiring Product Managers for the Last Decade
The product manager skills we use to hire were built for a version of the job that no longer exists. Not outdated in the way that job descriptions lag reality by a year or two. Structurally wrong: …
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Agentic AI for Product Leaders: What You Actually Need to Know
After 25 years leading product and technology teams, I thought I understood technology cycles. The hype, the overpromise, the disappointment, the slow maturation into something genuinely useful. I …
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