Showing 1–12 of 20 articles tagged Product Builder
AI Strategy & LeadershipDeep dive
A 2018 Google PM Is Worth Less Than a Two-Year AI-Native Builder
The hiring signal has inverted. Prestige credentials from the big-tech era correlate weakly with AI fluency. Screen for recency, not brand.
22 Apr13 min read
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AI Product BuildingDeep dive
The Right Friction Converts Better Than None
Product teams reflexively strip onboarding friction. Intentional friction that helps users understand why the product is for them increases conversion.
12 Apr10 min read
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AI Product BuildingDeep dive
Vibe Coding Is Real. It's Just Not What They're Selling You.
Made redundant with a newborn. Built a production SaaS in 10 weeks anyway. Vibe coding works, but not the way anyone's selling it.
4 Apr11 min read
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AI Strategy & LeadershipDeep dive
Build Speed Is No Longer the Bottleneck. Judgment Is.
When prototypes take hours not weeks, the bottleneck is not engineering any more. It is judgment: which option deserves trust, testing, and investment.
3 Apr10 min read
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AI Strategy & Leadership
AI Productivity Doesn't Free Time. It Monetises Ambition.
AI productivity does not hand ambitious builders spare time. It increases the number of bets, side projects, and decisions they can pursue each week.
2 Apr9 min read
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Industry & MarketsDeep dive
Two Production SaaS Platforms, One Builder: Solo Vertical SaaS
50+ AI features, 6 LLMs, native mobile, Stripe billing. Two vertical SaaS platforms built solo to prove the one-person product company model transfers.
27 Mar10 min read
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AI Product Building
Tests Pass. Does It Think?
When AI writes the code, green CI isn't enough. The new discipline is understanding and defending the choices the model made — not just the ones you made.
25 Mar8 min read
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AI Strategy & LeadershipDeep dive
The E-Shaped Product Leader: Stacking Skills Beats Silos
AI collapses the cost of cross-domain competence. The career advantage belongs to people who stack skills, not the ones who go deeper in a single silo.
23 Mar11 min read
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AI Product Building
Fred Brooks Is Dead. Rewrite the Damn Thing.
The 'never rewrite' doctrine was based on rewrite cost. AI has collapsed that cost to days. Pre-launch rewrites are now a product strategy, not a failure.
22 Mar7 min read
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AI Product Building
AI Makes Overbuilding the Default. Discipline Is the Antidote.
Going from zero to end in hours sounds like progress. It's also how you ship a product nobody can navigate. The real skill is knowing when to stop.
17 Mar7 min read
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AI Product BuildingDeep dive
AI Didn't Kill Coding. It Killed Typing.
AI coding is the sixth abstraction layer in 80 years. Every previous layer was dismissed as not real programming by the practitioners of the one below.
12 Mar10 min read
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AI Strategy & Leadership
Stop Reading About AI. Start Shipping With It.
The window for AI-enabled builders to capture outsized value is open but narrowing fast. Vertical SaaS is being built by individuals, not large teams.
5 Mar9 min read
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