“Listen to this episode on: Spotify | Apple Podcasts How do you build an AI-powered assistant that teachers will actually use? In this episode of Just Now Possible, Teresa Torres talks with Thom van der Doef (Principal Product Designer), Mary Gurley (Director of Learning Design & Product Manager), and Ray Lyons”
Julie Zhuo argues that the expertise that made you valuable, such as a specialized craft or deep procedural skill, may be the very thing AI erodes first, leaving some professionals more exposed than others. The source…
Teresa Torres interviews the founders of Rest, a startup that built a voice-first AI sleep coach grounded in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia (CBTI). The team began by noticing that users of their podcast app…
Teresa Torres interviews four members of Medable, a clinical trial platform company, about building Agent Studio, a no-code/low-code platform for configuring and deploying AI agents across the clinical trial lifecycle…
Designer Ben Shih describes building LennyRPG, a Pokémon-style pixel game where players meet and quiz Lenny's Podcast guests using transcripts from 300+ episodes. The post walks through his AI-assisted workflow…
This podcast episode features ShowMe's co-founders discussing how they build AI digital sales reps for inbound teams, treating agents as full teammates that run voice and video calls, demo products, and follow up over…
Marty Cagan argues that generative AI will reshape product teams over the next 3-10 years. Delivery work (building, testing, deploying) will become nearly instantaneous and automated, leaving product discovery, which is…
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…
Teresa Torres describes a three-week investigation prompted by a beta customer's complaint that an AI-generated opportunity solution tree had too many flat, unstructured opportunities under one parent. She built…
This episode of Just Now Possible features Lorikeet, a startup building AI customer support concierge agents for regulated industries. The team describes how months of work on the wrong ideas, such as reflection tools…
This podcast episode features three members of Musubi, an AI-native trust and safety toolkit for content platforms, discussing how they build custom-trained ML models and LLM-powered moderation tools tailored to each…
This episode of Just Now Possible features Aha!'s leadership and PM team discussing Aha! Builder, an AI app builder aimed at product managers rather than engineers. They describe the five-step discovery process that…
This podcast episode features Elliot Little and Dan St. Paul of Zero Gravity, a UK platform helping state-school students reach elite careers through mentoring and learning pathways. They describe building an AI career…
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…
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 and Petra Wille argue that product management is not dead but is changing, as the traditional product trio of PM, design, and engineering blends into a new 'product builder' model. AI raises the baseline…
This podcast episode follows Vistaly, an opportunity solution tree (OST) software company, as it rebuilt its product around AI-generated interview snapshots and an agentic workflow that drafts and updates trees from…
Teresa Torres interviews Matthias and Charlotte Kleverud, co-founders of Momental, about building a "GitHub for product management" that ingests documents, transcripts and recordings to map goals, decisions and…
Colin Matthews explains how product teams can move beyond individual AI prototyping by building shared component libraries, using baselines and forks, and matching prototype fidelity to each stage of the product…
John Cutler argues that organizations measuring AI success often fixate on the wrong denominator, counting outputs or usage rather than the outcomes that actually matter. The piece is framed around a simple model for…
Teresa Torres interviews the founders and CTO of Snapbar, a 14-year-old company that started as a wedding photo booth business, pivoted to a virtual product when COVID eliminated its events, and then rebuilt itself…
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 episode of Just Now Possible features Mowie's CEO Chris O'Connor and co-founder Jessica Valenzuela discussing how their AI marketing platform for small and medium businesses grew out of a hands-on concierge…
Marty Cagan argues that the rapid rise of generative AI tools like ChatGPT, Midjourney and GPT-4 is a disruptive technology wave comparable to personal computers, the Internet, and the iPhone. He notes that disruptions…