Product Management When Software Creation Is Cheap

About this episode

Nate B. Jones discusses how AI is transforming product management by making software creation cheaper and the implications of this shift.

For deeper playbooks and analysis: https://natesnewsletter.substack.com/ Product management is changing as AI makes first versions cheaper. The obvious advice is that PMs should prototype more, but the deeper shift is about judgment: deciding what should exist, what should be deleted, who a product is for, what standard it needs to meet, and what the company is willing to rely on. Nate walks through the move from rationing scarce engineering to classifying software abundance, including the Prototype Commons, production class ladders, and why promotion and demotion become core product work. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

People in this episode

Host: Nate B. Jones

Topics covered

• product management
• AI
• software development
• prototyping
• engineering
• decision making

Keywords

• product management
• AI
• software creation
• prototyping
• engineering
• judgment
• Prototype Commons

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Organizations: Acast, Nate's Newsletter

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