Product discovery coach, author of Continuous Discovery Habits; writes Product Talk.
“Listen to this episode on: Spotify | Apple Podcasts In this heartfelt episode of All Things Product, Petra Wille and Teresa Torres talk about something we all experience but rarely discuss openly — setbacks. Teresa shares a deeply personal story about her long recovery from an injury and how it unexpectedly mirrors”
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…
Teresa Torres argues that Claude Code can become a powerful personal operating system for non-technical people, but only if users understand the risks of giving a language model access to their computer. She walks…
Teresa Torres and Petra Wille discuss the practical pain of global invoicing and EU tax compliance for small international online businesses. They argue that platforms and product teams often miss small regulatory…
This episode of a product podcast features Incident.io's founding engineer Lawrence Jones and AI product lead Ed Dean discussing how their team is building an AI SRE that helps diagnose and respond to production…
Teresa Torres explains how she stopped re-explaining her business to AI tools by giving Claude Code a persistent, file-based memory. Instead of uploading context into chats or web Projects, she stores knowledge in local…
Teresa Torres and Petra Wille discuss how personal, low-stakes experiments with AI at home can build the confidence and judgment product builders need at work and when designing AI-powered products. Teresa describes her…
This episode of Teresa Torres's podcast walks through how Trainline, a 25-year-old rail and coach ticketing platform, built Travel Assistant, an AI-powered companion for travelers facing disruptions and needing…
Teresa Torres introduces Claude Code, a terminal-based version of Claude that can read and act on local files, and contrasts it with browser chats, Projects, and the desktop app. Using a competitive analysis example…
This podcast episode argues that AI tools deliver useful product work only when they are given the right context, much as a new teammate needs onboarding. Teresa Torres and Petra Wille explain why most AI outputs…
This podcast episode features three leaders from Zencity, a company that helps local governments understand residents by combining survey data, 311 calls, social media, and local news into one platform. The conversation…
Teresa Torres argues that generative AI changes many product-management practices (prompt engineering, context engineering, orchestration, and evals) but that core fundamentals still determine whether a product…
In this podcast episode, Teresa Torres and Petra Wille trade stories about the formative experiences that shaped their product careers. Teresa recounts running a startup through the 2008 recession, where prioritization…
This podcast episode features three leaders from Neople, a company building 'digital coworkers' that automate work such as customer support, invoice processing, and drafting emails. The conversation traces how Neople…
Teresa Torres explains the product operating model, a set of first principles popularized by Marty Cagan, which focuses on achieving customer and business outcomes rather than shipping outputs. She contrasts it with the…
In this end-of-year episode of All Things Product, Petra Wille and Teresa Torres reflect on what they want to be known for in their work. They examine why the word 'legacy' can feel heavy and propose gentler framings…
Teresa Torres interviews SallyAnn DeLucia and Jack Zhou of Arize AI about building Alyx, the AI agent that helps teams debug, optimize, and evaluate AI applications. The team describes scrappy beginnings in Jupyter…
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…
In this podcast conversation, Teresa Torres and host Petra Wille discuss Product Talk Academy's shift from purely instructor-led cohort courses toward on-demand learning options. Torres explains why she resisted…
Teresa Torres and Hamel Husain discuss how to evaluate and debug AI products with a scientist's mindset. Hamel draws on his machine learning background at Airbnb and GitHub, and his consulting work with startups like…
Teresa Torres follows up her home-use AI article with a practical guide to using large language models at work, organized into increasingly complex categories: translation, doing the work, research, writing, and coding…
Teresa Torres and Petra Wille discuss how they use AI as strategic thought partners across writing, coding, and product work rather than as ghostwriters. Petra describes a voice-first, bilingual transcription workflow…
This episode of Just Now Possible features the eSpark team discussing how they built Teacher Assistant, an AI feature that helps K–5 teachers align eSpark's supplemental lessons with district-mandated core curricula…
Teresa Torres and Petra Wille explore AI evals: what they mean, why they matter beyond quality assurance, and how teams can build them. Drawing on Teresa's experience building the Interview Coach tool, the conversation…
Teresa Torres interviews Ellen Brandenburger, a former product leader at Stack Overflow, about how the company responded when ChatGPT abruptly changed developer behavior. Ellen describes the creation of Overflow AI, a…
Teresa Torres argues that people feel overwhelmed by AI but can build practical skills by starting with simple, everyday uses of large language models. She presents a graded set of use cases, from basic search…
Teresa Torres, host of Product Talk, is interviewed by Petra Wille about how product teams can move beyond casual use of chatbots to build AI-powered products. Drawing on months of building her own AI product, the…
Teresa Torres shares answers from the Q&A of her webinar on building AI evals for the Interview Coach, a teaching tool that gives students feedback on their customer interviews. She explains her lean, hands-on tooling…
Teresa Torres and Petra Wille argue that promotions, while common career targets, can be a poor north star because they are largely outside an individual's control and often tied to salary and status rather than…
Teresa Torres describes building Product Talk's Interview Coach, an AI tool that gives students feedback on their customer interviews, and how she designed evals to measure its quality. She explains the core idea of…