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This page is a curated index from SVPG, Marty Cagan's product consultancy, collecting its writing and videos on how generative AI affects product teams. Rather than a single argument, it groups prior pieces by theme…
Marily Nika, a former AI PM at Google and Meta, presents a weekly ritual for building AI product sense: probing a model with messy, ambiguous, and difficult inputs to map failure modes before users do. She argues PMs…
Julie Zhuo writes a letter to her 11-year-old daughter about the value of struggling through hard work when AI can make almost anything effortless. The piece frames the problem as a question of cultivating the eye…
Teresa Torres and Petra Wille discuss AI 'clones' built from podcast transcripts and public content that produce advice attributed to real people, often mediocre or things the person would never say. They explore where…
Teresa Torres argues against generative AI tools that try to replace real discovery work, such as synthetic customer interviews, auto-generated opportunity solution trees, or AI-drafted artifacts. She explains that…
Teresa Torres explains "context rot," the pattern where large language model performance degrades as the context window fills up with conversation history and input. Drawing on recent research (Liu et al. 2023, Paulsen…
Teresa Torres describes her daily workflow of pair-working with Claude Code over the past five months, from task pulling and research digests to drafting articles and producing podcasts. She argues the productivity…
Teresa Torres argues that teams under pressure to keep up with continuous customer interviews are turning to generative AI for synthesis, and that this often backfires. The core problem is that AI cannot supply context…
Teresa Torres describes a personal 'team of agents' built on Claude that works for her while she is away from the computer: a podcast manager, a sales admin, and a coding manager. Each agent prepares tasks, reports, or…
Teresa Torres walks through the building blocks of Claude Code: markdown context files, slash commands, agents and sub-agents, skills, hooks, and plug-ins. Her core argument is that going deep on one tool and…
Teresa Torres describes how her blog-writing process changed once she began using Claude as a collaborator for outlining, critiquing, researching, and headline work, which lets her write more. She argues that designing…
Teresa Torres and Petra Wille push back on the hype around the 'product builder' trend, arguing that whether product managers should code or vibe code is the wrong starting question. They suggest first asking whether…
This episode of a product podcast walks through how Xelix built an AI Helpdesk for accounts payable teams, which often receive over a thousand vendor emails daily. The product turns that inbox noise into structured…
Marty Cagan argues that the so-called AI productivity paradox, where teams ship faster but outcomes do not improve, is not really a paradox at all. Most organizations use AI to accelerate the old project model, which is…
Cagan argues that the build-versus-buy question, long familiar in IT and product teams, is being reshaped by generative AI and user-programming tools like Lovable and Bolt. Despite hype that everyone will build and SaaS…
This episode of Just Now Possible features a conversation with Priya Nakra and Olivia Rowley of Override Labs, a nonprofit building technology to prevent gender-based violence. Their flagship product, Is This Okay?…
Teresa Torres and Petra Wille discuss moving from Claude in the browser to Claude Code running on a local machine, where it can work directly with files and workflows. They cover practical setup such as project…
Teresa Torres and Petra Wille revisit their earlier skepticism about using AI to analyze and synthesize customer interviews, now shaped by about six months of experiments. Teresa ran 15 interviews through…
Lenny Rachitsky's guest author, a Google AI product leader, argues that the SaaS freemium playbook breaks down for AI products because each free request carries real compute cost. He proposes a modern AI paywall built…
In this All Things Product podcast episode, Teresa Torres and Petra Wille discuss how product people can handle FOMO around the rapid stream of AI tools. They argue that starting from real problems and friction is more…
Teresa Torres walks through her experience vibe coding production software over six months, from early failures to a reliable workflow. She explains what vibe coding is, compares popular apps and agents, and identifies…
Lenny Rachitsky, introducing a guest post by Colin on AI leverage for product managers, argues that PM work is shifting from coordination toward hands-on building with AI. The post lays out three ladders of leverage…
Teresa Torres surveys eleven real-world teams using Lovable and similar AI prototyping tools to speed up product discovery. Across stories from design sprints, navigation tests, side projects, job applications and…