product-management

Stop Using AI. Start Hiring It.

AI agents can now write more code than any of us can read. That changed how I think about AI. The post Stop Using AI. Start Hiring It. appeared first on Towards Data Science.

Everyone Is Selling AI at You — Here’s How to Keep Your Judgement

Three moves to decode the hype The post Everyone Is Selling AI at You — Here’s How to Keep Your Judgement appeared first on Towards Data Science.

How to Write an Agent Eval Rubric: Why Your LLM Judge Averages 4.8 on Useless Replies

The product manager job AI wants is the one from 1931

In 1931, a junior executive at Procter & Gamble wrote an 800-word memo asking for two more hires. He wanted someone accountable for each soap brand: someone who tracked sales, ran the promotions, handled the packaging, and talked directly to the people buying the soap.

Decision Debt

Teams track tasks long after they stop tracking the assumptions behind them. That is how old decisions become decision debt.

Current State

A team can be surrounded by status updates and still be unable to answer a simple question: what is actually true right now? The difference is not more reporting. It is a current state.

Nerve Center

A PM says she can't hand a decision to someone else because no one else has the full context. It sounds like control. Transferring everything she's picked up from a dozen scattered conversations this week would take about as long as making the call herself, and that's the actual reason it doesn't…

Survivorship bias in product decisions: how to measure what your roadmap misses

Ranking product requests by how many times they were mentioned is still the most common way I see roadmaps get built. Twenty-three mentions beats eleven, so twenty-three goes higher.

Product Manager Salary in India: What the Ranges Actually Mean

“Product manager salary in India” is one of those searches where the top ten results give you ten slightly different numbers, and none of them tell you where you personally land. So let’s not add an eleventh vague number to the pile.

Situation Awareness

A weekly brief lists twelve tickets shipped, three deals closed, and a competitor's price change. Every line is accurate. The reader finishes it and still can't say whether the week was good or bad, or what it means for the one coming.

Ecological Fallacy

A team's power-user persona says integrations are the top priority. A real power user on the call says integrations matter least to them, speed is what they actually want. Neither the persona nor the customer is wrong.

21% accurate, even with every tool connected: what Anthropic learned about AI and messy data

Anthropic connected their data to Claude and asked it real questions. The answers looked great. The kind you’d forward to your team. Then they checked. Claude was right 21% of the time. So they fed it thousands of past queries and confirmed it read them. Accuracy moved less than a point.

The PM and developer used to pass work across a wall. AI knocked the wall down. Now what?

For twenty years the product manager and the developer ran a relay. The PM gathered customer input, wrote the spec, and handed it over. The developer took the spec, made the technical calls, and built it. The PM checked the result against the intent. Then the baton went back.

Fast Doesn’t Mean Right. What the Anthropic Podcast Left Out About Product Decisions.

Cat Wu went on Lenny’s Podcast last week and described a product org that ships features in days, removes process barriers by default, and lets engineers go from a Twitter complaint to a shipped fix by Friday. It was a great conversation.

Beyond the App: Using Vibe Coding to Ship Decks, Dashboards, and Launch Assets

This is part 5 of a 6-part series we’re running about how product managers are using AI tools and vibe coding. Written by and for product managers. Summary Product managers spend as much time launching a feature as building it, across disconnected tools.

Key Metrics That Can Make or Break Your Startup

If you’ve built something worth pitching – something more than a fancy hobby with a login screen – you need to know your numbers. Not "I’ll get back to you" know them, know them like you know your co-founder's coffee order. I have seen too many found...

A Beginner Developer's Guide to Kanban

First, a confession: When I was learning to code, my “workflow” was a mess. Sticky notes. Google Docs. Random Trello boards I never checked again. And a to-do list that somehow never got any shorter. Then I joined a real team. Suddenly, I was introdu...

A Beginner Developer's Guide to Scrum

Let me guess: you’re learning to code…alone. You’ve been grinding through tutorials. You've built a portfolio site, maybe deployed a few projects on GitHub. And now you're trying to land a job or join a team. Then the interviews start. Suddenly, peop...