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Thinking about AI product leadership, building with AI tools, governance, and the economics of shipping AI in production.
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AI's biggest obstacles are not technical. They are structural: professional guilds, regulatory capture, procurement inertia, and incumbents profiting from it.

Chunking, retrieval, and grounding are not engineering details. They are product decisions that determine whether your AI feature helps or hallucinates.

The best AI products aren't imagined. They're discovered by watching how people misuse your existing ones. A framework for finding what to build next.

The 6-week discovery sprint is a relic. When you can build a working prototype in a weekend, the fastest path to insight is shipping, not researching.

Most AI tools are deployed but unused. The friction isn't capability. AI lives in a separate tab instead of where work happens. Build inline, not destination.

For decades, companies like CoreLogic built massive moats by accumulating proprietary structured property data. Visual intelligence just evaporated that advantage.

4 engineers, 10 days, a new product line. AI coding agents collapsed build economics. If code is a commodity, your moat is data, integrations, and trust.

AI commoditises execution. The scarce resource is knowing what to build, for whom, and when to stop. That's taste, and it's the career bet worth making.

Most teams evaluate agents with manual chats and gut feel. A practical framework for eval suites that let you ship, starting with 20 examples, not 20,000.

Agentic coding compressed the PM translation layer to zero. The three skills that matter now: problem shaping, context curation, and taste as judgment.

AI strategies fail because leaders set direction for a capability they have never used. You cannot strategise well for a material you haven't touched.

AI does not replace jobs. It replaces tasks. That distinction changes everything about how you plan your career, your hiring strategy, and your org chart.