#productmanagement — Public Fediverse posts

Teams are racking up "prompt debt" by fighting model weights instead of working with them. Drew Breunig’s framing of this as technical debt is spot on—relying on hacks locks you into old models and kills innovation. Stop "vibe shipping" and start building: https://www.oreilly.com/radar/prompt-debt-and-fighting-the-weights/ #AI #ProductManagement

As we delegate more to GenAI, we risk losing the critical thinking skills needed to spot its errors. Is speed worth the cost of deskilling? We must be deliberate about what we automate and what we keep sharp. Check out this guide on staying engaged: https://agilepainrelief.com/blog/skill-loss-and-gen-ai-make-it-a-choice-not-an-accident/ #ProductManagement #Agile

AI lets us perform tasks outside our expertise, but can we actually judge the quality of the output? Itamar Gilad explores the "Danger Zone" where AI-driven overconfidence meets the Dunning-Kruger effect. A must-read for product leaders: https://itamargilad.com/artificial-competence/ #ProductManagement #AI

Can LLMs really replace human users in A/B testing? Spotify's latest research suggests caution. While AI can predict outcomes, it often underestimates true impact. We must balance speed with statistical validity to avoid poor shipping decisions.

Read the full study: https://engineering.atspotify.com/2026/8/when-can-llms-replace-humans-in-a-b-tests

#ProductManagement #AI

Coding agents work for four reasons. Constrained environment. Fast unambiguous feedback. Cheap reversible mistakes. Judgment deferred to a human at review. Almost no other domain has all four, which is why most agent products are still demos.

#AI #AIAgents #SoftwareEngineering #ProductManagement #BuildInPublic

I launched Cyber Company Profiles to analyze the market position and product strategy of hundreds of cybersecurity companies. Same questions, same scales, so you can compare vendors and go deep, instead of collecting one-off AI answers.

https://zeltser.com/cyber-company-profiles

#productmanagement #artificialintelligence

Designing Flow Friction: The Core Capability of AI-Native Teams, by (not on Mastodon or Bluesky):

https://frontenddogma.com/posts/2026/designing-flow-friction/

#translations #ai #processes #productmanagement #engineeringmanagement

AI agents excel at narrow tasks but stumble on open-ended research. New study shows they lack the judgement and creativity needed for true self-improvement. It's a vital reminder that human oversight remains the bottleneck in AI progress. See the evidence: https://www.normaltech.ai/p/ai-agents-cant-yet-do-open-ended #AI #ProductManagement

What I’ve been reading (and watching) week ending 9 August https://jchyip.medium.com/what-ive-been-reading-and-watching-week-ending-9-august-1ab6b2dde859 #AI #DistributedSystems #science #engineering #SoftwareEngineering #cybersecurity #ProductManagement

A defense manufacturing startup just raised $1.37 billion to build automated factories for military parts. Investors from Andreessen Horowitz to Morgan Stanley are betting robotics and automation, not just software, is the next big tech wave. If you are deciding where to build or invest, physical automation is heating up fast. Save it.

The new automated factory startup still can't do what?

#startups #venturecapital #saas #productlaunch #entrepreneurship #technews #productmanagement #innovation

Zapier is raising the bar, moving from ad hoc AI use to a mandatory "AI fluency" for all hires. I love their focus on the "slope" of learning—it’s about continuous experimentation, not just knowing a tool. Check their V2 rubric to see the future of talent. https://zapier.com/blog/raising-ai-fluency-bar-in-hiring/ #AI #ProductManagement

Building AI prototypes is easy, but relying on natural language for engineering leads to prompt debt. Over-engineered prompts slow iteration and lock you into specific models. Move from prose to metrics to build scalable, portable products.

See how to fix it: https://www.oreilly.com/radar/the-problem-is-prompt-debt/

#AI #ProductManagement

I recently filed a support case with #Okta in which I made three suggestions to them for minor but noticeable improvements to their SSO browser extension.
In response, the support rep told me I should submit my suggestions to the "ideas" section in the Okta Help Center.
This is annoying and dumb.
#tech #software #programming #ProductManagement #SoftwareQuality #TechIsShitDispatch (1/3)

C4 diagrams for #ProductManagers https://jchyip.medium.com/c4-diagrams-for-product-managers-3a118e4f9874 #SoftwareArchitecture #ProductManagement

New analysis: Weaponized Compliance — an investigation into how extortionists pressured Apple to remove Telegram from the App Store, the methods involved, and Telegram’s response. Essential reading for product managers, compliance officers, and anyone tracking platform governance. Read more: https://wix.to/t30mRis

#TechPolicy
#Compliance
#CyberSecurity
#PlatformGovernance
#ProductManagement

Bold IT bets need fair measures. Innovation accounting shows which experiments deserve to scale and which should stop. #InnovationAccounting #ITLeadership #DigitalTransformation #ProductStrategy #InnovationMetrics #DataDriven #CloudStrategy #AIinIT #TechGovernance #EnterpriseIT #ProductManagement #InnovationLeadership
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/innovation-accounting-when-experiments-start-paying-rent-mohindroo--moxac

As AI accelerates coding, the PM role is shifting into a 'barbell' shape. We must move away from managing the middle to mastering the fuzzy front end and go-to-market strategy. It's about outcomes over output. See why the bottleneck is moving: https://www.mironov.com/barbell/ #ProductManagement #AI

Wrote something new: what #PragmaticMarketing is, and why "your opinion, although interesting, is irrelevant." (Their words, not mine!)

Spent years watching teams argue about features in a conference room, all of them sure they knew what customers wanted. Pragmatic Marketing is the antidote to that. It's a framework built on a simple, yet revolutionary 😉 idea: go TALK to the market instead of trusting your gut:

https://itguyeric.com/blog/what-is-pragmatic-marketing/
#ProductMarketing #ProductManagement #Marketing #B2B

Everyone keeps saying code is cheap, but anyone looking at a recent Anthropic bill knows that is not quite right. 💸

The trick is that AI carries the technical load while humans bring the product judgment to move conversations forward.

However, do not ship AI creations straight to production without drawing a loud line between a quick hack and real engineering rigor. 🎯

👉 https://upsun.com/blog/pocs-are-cheap-ai-augmented-development/
#GenerativeAI #SoftwareEngineering #ProductManagement #AIAugmentedDevelopment

The AI boom is hitting a fascinating bottleneck: compute. As models get smarter, their ability to monetise compute grows, potentially driving prices up 10x. This shift forces us to rethink product margins and efficiency. See why scarcity is the new reality: https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/why-compute-might-get-10x-more-expensive

#AI #ProductManagement

97.2% say AI is making them better at their job.

Underneath that number: quality slipping, stress climbing, pay standing still, "good enough" becoming the default.

That's what stuck with me in this year's Tech Worker Sentiment Study. I wrote up why: https://virtualpatrick.com/2026/08/01/tech-workers-sentiment-study-2026-key-findings/

Where do you feel it most, quality, stress, or pay?

#ProductManagement #AI #FutureOfWork #Burnout #prodmgmt

Chatbots often create more cognitive load than they solve. The real shift in Product is moving from prompts to agentic interfaces like Claude Dispatch that adapt to how we actually work. Explore how AI-native design is finally closing the accessibility gap: https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/claude-dispatch-and-the-power-of #ProductManagement #AI

The software factory dream from 1968 is finally here, but speed brings "comprehension debt." Are you running a dark factory where machines ship unread code, or a lit one where human judgment guides the loops? Verification, not generation, is the new bottleneck.

Read the full analysis here:
https://addyo.substack.com/p/software-factories-light-and-dark

#ProductManagement #Agile

Scrum Isn’t for Stormtroopers, by (not on Mastodon or Bluesky):

https://www.scrum.org/resources/blog/scrum-isnt-stormtroopers?ref=frontenddogma.com

#scrum #agile #engineeringmanagement #productmanagement #concepts

SpaceX just lost another Starship booster, its second Super Heavy failure since the biggest IPO in history. The upper stage still nailed satellite deployment and a simulated reentry, proof the fly, fail, fix method keeps working even as the stock swings on every headline. Watching a hardware company test in public is a preview of how AI and robotics companies will get judged next. Save it.

#aitools #llm #tech #saas #productlaunch #entrepreneurship #technews #productmanagement

PLG activation isn't just a growth hack; it's a company-wide alignment challenge. Leah Tharin explains why traditional metrics often mask long-term churn and how AI can trick you into thinking you're winning when you're actually rotting. 🚀

Check it out: https://www.leahtharin.com/p/youre-doing-activation-wrong

#ProductManagement #PLG

Is token usage the new "lines of code" vanity metric? High-end labs are "tokenmaxxing," yet we might be forcing AI to think in words when "sensations" or latent space would be far more efficient. Is it a breakthrough or just expensive scaffolding?

Insights here: https://www.thealgorithmicbridge.com/p/inside-the-ai-industrys-most-expensive

#AI #ProductManagement

What Is Product Craft in the Age of AI and Design Systems?, by @bencallahan.com:

https://bencallahan.com/product-craft-in-the-age-of-ai-and-design-systems?ref=frontenddogma.com

#productmanagement #craft #ai #designsystems

Most product managers and marketers are told they need to learn to vibe code to bring their ideas to life.

Instead of agonizing over technical tools, you can pair Claude Desktop with an Upsun dashboard to ship a functional proof of concept in a single afternoon. 🚀

This workflow sets up an accessible system where engineering teams can actually see what you mean instead of reading another slide deck.

👉 https://upsun.com/blog/ai-augmented-development-poc-guide-claude-code/ #AI #ProductManagement #CloudPlatform #WebDevelopment