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I've long been convinced that AI focus needs to be balanced and look at the processes upstream of sw development. There's incredible potential to improve product and strategy work and very little evidence of any effort going into it. This isn't entirely OpenAI or Anthropic's fault. Product work requires crossing organizational boundaries, querying fragmented tooling, talking to people, and continuously defining and refining strategy. None of this context is readily structured for an AI model to consume; it remains siloed, undocumented, or locked inside people's heads. Melissa Perri talks about this (and other topics) in the latest episode of her Product Thinking podcast. The most interesting part is just 3 minutes into the episode (emphasis mine): [...] "Delivery of designs and code got very fast. Delivery of good decisions became the new bottleneck." Now, I don't think this bottleneck is new. It's exactly what I talk about in the build trap. Wh...

I've been following Martin Stellar for some time and I find his material has made me a much better Product person. His writing is simple, clear and engaging, especially his free academy material . I thoroughly recommend you follow Martin Stellar on LinkedIn and read his materials.

Via:  https://changelog.com/news/131 Bill Maher is new to me, and in a bit over 8 minutes he just became my favorite satirist. In a new segment called New Rule Bill Maher lamented the shitty status of technology driven forced improvement which I'm the first to admit, a lot of times, does not make our lives materially better. He makes the examples of streaming services which drive the user experience back to where we were 20 years ago (or worse), disappearing car handles and apps to do everything. As a European I can't really relate on the car valet experience, but I do find infuriating the growing number of restaurants forcing me to scan a QR code, register with my email, and then squint at my phone screen trying to decide what to order. Bring paper menus back 😠 It's a well worth watching 8 minutes. Especially if you work on the field. The lack of ethics in our field is really showing, and TBH I think we got away easily in this critique. It could have gotten much worse...