The rise of autonomous agent code is fundamentally altering the PM-Engineering interface, requiring PMs to become 'builder' focused while simultaneously maintaining ruthless strategic prioritization to avoid getting lost in the noise of infinite code generation.
TLDR: This blog compares Claude Opus 4.6 and GPT 5.3 Codex in the only way that holds up in production. It treats them as different roles, not rivals. You will learn when to use Opus for architecture, deep context, and repo-wide refactors, and whe...
The complexity of imperative coding is currently a major bottleneck in deploying AI agents. This article introduces Ackgent, a production-ready starter kit that leverages the new Agent Config feature in Google ADK (v1.12.0+) to shift development t...
The Slack and Dropbox playbook is dead. Everyone copied it for 10 years. Now it doesn’t work anymore. But here’s the problem. Most PLG content still teaches the 2018 playbook. They tell you to add a free trial, add viral loops, focus on activat...
What happened after writing a recent Product Management IRL article? These insights are for paid subscribers to Product Management IRL. This week’s backstory is about builder PMs: What Prompted This Article? I disagreed with some of the big pro...
Irony: Re Matt Shumer’s ridiculous blog that I commented on earlier this week…. Irony laced with Karma: I have been writing for a long time about how OpenAI snarfs the intellectual property of artists and writers. Even I didn’t expect this upda...
Is there anything that VCs, boards, or business leaders love more than recurring revenue? If so, I haven’t found it. And so the “subscription economy” has exploded in the last decade - and it’s the backbone of the SaaS. And let’s be real, much of...
The three soundtracks to my life: This, this, and this.Right now, millions of engineers are using AI to do their job. “Top engineers at Anthropic, OpenAI say AI now writes 100% of their code,” says Fortune. Claude is now effectively writing itself...
This month, we’re going to explore one of the most powerful forcing functions available to leaders: the single prioritized list. It’s probably the most simple idea you could think of: that your team, department, or company should have one list of...
Who hasn’t been part of a team or company that promises you that the next product will change the world? We are used to admiring, copying, and adopting ideas from other companies that have innovated the market.Who hasn’t been part of a team or co...
On this episode of Mostly Growth, the number one podcast in product monetization, Kyle and CJ dive into vertical SaaS and the “riches in niches” playbook. From Skimmer to Rock Auto to Epicor, they unpack why obscure software companies win, the TAM...
Lightweight workshop for annual (or quarterly) planning that focused on outcomes, not outputs. Hey Ant here, I started this newsletter to share the lessons I wish someone had told me 10+ years ago early in my product career. Expect to find pr...
AI is supercharging legacy leadership assumptions about context and control. In AI discourse, “context” is increasingly framed as the new source of truth. It’s a familiar and seductive idea that if only enough information can be assembled and surf...
If you’re a premium subscriber Add the private feed to your podcast app at add.lennysreads.com Dr. Marily Nika, longtime AI PM at Google and Meta, shares a simple weekly ritual that rapidly builds AI product sense – the ability to translate prob...
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