Teresa Torres, a product discovery educator, describes how she drifted from occasional tinkering into spending a large share of her time on real AI engineering. She built AI-powered tools for continuous discovery…
Shreyas Doshi describes a founder asking whether to go wide or deep, and argues that abstract framings like this feel productive but avoid the decision. The core advice is to push past comfortable generalities toward…
This episode of Just Now Possible features Rhea's Factory's co-founders discussing enzymatic plastic recycling, a biological approach that breaks plastic polymers back into their original monomers rather than merely…
Teresa Torres describes building AI-generated opportunity solution trees for Vistaly as a product manager stepping into engineering with AI assistance. The core difficulty was updating an existing tree with new…
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…
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…
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…
This reading guide introduces Chapter 6 of Continuous Discovery Habits, the monthly book club installment marking the book's fifth anniversary. It argues that product teams should stop reacting to every customer need…
This episode of Just Now Possible features AITropos founders Santi Marchiori (CEO) and Juan Haedo (CTO) discussing how they built an AI order-taking agent that handles the full ordering flow inside WhatsApp for…
This podcast episode examines why companies drift back to command-and-control leadership during uncertain times, because it feels faster and more decisive. Teresa Torres and Petra Wille argue that no single leader can…
Lenny Rachitsky, with Hilary Gridley, introduces Couch-to-5K for AI, a free program of under 10 minutes a day that builds AI skills progressively using Claude Code. The post argues that busyness is usually a disguise…
Marty Cagan answers common follow-up questions to his earlier argument that builders should distinguish between building to learn (product discovery) and building to earn (product delivery). He argues that as delivery…
Julie Zhuo's short essay, titled "I am an idiot," reflects on intellectual humility in an era when AI systems can seem to know more than we do. The piece is framed as personal notes rather than a formal argument, using…
Teresa Torres and Petra Wille argue that confident predictions about AI-driven change are often wrong, and that betting everything on one forecast is risky. Humans are poor at forecasting, and early adopters' experience…
Marty Cagan argues that product work has two distinct modes: the project model, focused on output from predefined roadmaps, and the product model, focused on outcomes. As delivery costs have collapsed with AI, the…
This episode of Just Now Possible, hosted by Teresa Torres, is an in-depth look at how Doist built Ramble, a voice-to-task feature in Todoist that turns spoken brain dumps into structured tasks in real time. Ramble was…
Teresa Torres describes the problem of sharing AI context files and Claude Code skills across multiple personal devices and with a colleague. She walks through why Dropbox, iCloud and git each fell short, mainly because…
Teresa Torres and Petra Wille argue that AI, which makes generating ideas and building products faster, does not remove the need for product managers because the core of product work is relationship work. Aligning…
The post argues that 'AI agent' covers very different systems, so teams should first categorize each idea by architecture before prioritizing. It proposes three categories (deterministic automation, reasoning and acting…
Marty Cagan argues that internal products, while worth treating as real products, carry a lower bar on value, usability, feasibility and viability than commercial products. Internal users cannot switch to competitors…
Teresa Torres traces how product roadmaps have evolved from feature-and-date lists to theme and outcome-based formats, arguing each fixes some problems while creating others. Feature roadmaps imply false certainty that…
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…
This guest post by Michelle Rial, shared by Lenny Rachitsky, offers a humorous visual pep talk for anyone stuck in a creative slump. Structured as twelve short charts, it argues that fear of embarrassment, chasing…