Chapter 1. Setting Up Your AI PM Playground
“I’m a tool builder. That’s how I think of myself. I want to build really good tools that I know in my gut and my heart will be valuable. And then, whatever happens, is… you can’t really predict exactly what will happen, but you can feel the direction that we’re going. And that’s about as close as you can get. Then you just stand back and get out of the way, and these things take on a life of their own”
Steve Jobs
If you could build a working AI application prototype in under an hour, would you still wait three sprints for your engineering team to prototype your idea?
This is the central question facing every Product Manager (PM) in the age of generative AI. The old workflow was defined by friction: a critical payment flow bug meant filing a P1 ticket, scheduling a grooming session, explaining the issue across JIRA, and waiting weeks for a fix to be scoped, prioritized, and deployed.
One time, I discovered just such a critical bug. Instead of filing ...
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