“Listen to this episode on: Spotify | Apple Podcasts In this episode of All Things Product, Petra Wille sits down with Teresa Torres to explore a big shift in how Product Talk Academy is approaching learning: moving from purely instructor-led cohort courses to offering on-demand options. Teresa shares why”
Teresa Torres and Petra Wille examine the build vs. buy decision, which AI is reshaping. They argue the classic rule of thumb, to avoid building non-core functions, has limits, since vendors may be better positioned…
Cagan argues that many product companies have yet to seriously consider data science, even though leading firms are already gaining advantages from it. He distinguishes data science from traditional analytics by its…
Teresa Torres and Petra Wille examine the sudden popularity of "taste" as a prized human skill in the AI era. Teresa argues the term is rarely defined, hard to teach, and can disguise personal preference as expertise…
.@thsottiaux (Head of ChatGPT & Codex) on the skills trending up and down in the AI era. Trending up: great taste, passion to build something that matters, knowing what good looks like. Trending down: typing fast.
This article describes how John Deere, a 185-year-old equipment maker, is repositioning itself as a technology company centered on "smart farming." Facing a projected global population of 9.6 billion by 2050 and rising…
The software of the future promises more power and flexibility for more imagination. We started with use-case software, moving to platform software, moving to all-purpose coding agents. Interface design is shifting rightward. A few things to keep in mind for designers: 1. Make the interface…
Marty Cagan argues that the core of the product manager job is product creation: working daily with designers and engineers to solve customer problems in ways that are both loved by customers and viable for the…
Lenny Rachitsky, with instructor Colin Matthews, offers a practical primer for product managers who want stronger technical fluency. It walks through application architecture (client, server, database), how APIs work…
Lenny Rachitsky's biannual State of the Product Job Market update, based on TrueUp data, argues that early 2026 tech hiring is more optimistic than headlines suggest. It covers rising PM and engineering openings, the…
Teresa Torres wants to believe every product team does careful synthesis after each customer interview. The reality? It's hard, so teams give up and grab the two or three things they remember most. "We're not competing with making good synthesis faster. We're competing with making shallow synthesis…
The essay argues that AI does not remove the core difficulties of product and engineering work, namely complexity, coupling, coordination costs, uncertainty, and system decay. What AI changes is the cost, speed, and…
Julie Zhuo announces the launch of her book on management and offers predictions about how the manager role will change in the era of AI. The piece frames management as a path many product and design people will…
I'm seeing a huge difference in performance (in a bad direction) across my evals moving from Sonnet 4.6 to Sonnet 5. Previously, my service ran at temperature 0. I'm wondering what prompt strategies people are using to constrain Sonnet 5 now that temperature is no longer an option.
Teresa Torres and Petra Wille open 2026 with a casual behind-the-scenes conversation about what is changing in their work and what they are experimenting with. Teresa explains retiring live Deep Dive cohorts in favor of…
Lenny Rachitsky revisits the product job market using TrueUp job-board data, finding a mostly optimistic picture for 2025. Open PM and engineering roles are rising, AI-related roles are growing rapidly, layoffs are…
Marty Cagan argues that the product model, a way of organizing companies around discovering and delivering valuable solutions, is the key capability for responding to major opportunities and threats. He points to the…
Marty Cagan shares his 2024 product predictions in narrative form, framing each as a hope and a worry rather than a forecast, given his track record of overestimating how quickly change arrives. He covers ten recurring…