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The JobResearch got cheap. Evidence didn’t.
AI made every step of product research faster: recruiting, interviewing, synthesizing, even the users. It didn’t make it cheaper to know whether any of it is true. What the evidence says, and how to do research now.
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The JobYour judgment is fine. Your threshold may not be.
How to keep judging well when the volume of plausible artifacts goes up tenfold: what the detection research actually says, and what to do about it.
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The JobThe feedback problem
New habits for product leaders in 2027: what to drop, what to build, and which part of the job each one fixes.
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BetThe renewal cliff
A 2027 risk map for B2B SaaS: what’s actually dangerous, what only looks dangerous, and an 18-month plan.
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The JobThe middle is the part being removed
Where humans actually sit in product management after AI — and why “orchestrator” is the wrong answer.
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EvalsThe rubric that replaced the spec
You cannot write an acceptance criterion for a system that answers differently every time. What you can write is the standard you will judge it against.
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BetEverything is repricing
Product roles, design roles, software pricing, and software valuations are all moving at once. It's one story, and most people are reading it four separate times.
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The JobHow to hire a PM now
The old signals stopped working. Here's what the market data actually says, how many product people you need, what to test for, and the interview I'd run instead.
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ToolsShould a PM know how to read code in 2026?
Yes. And the floor is lower than both camps want you to believe — five things, none of which is "write production code."
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ToolsThe 2026 product leader's toolset
Eight categories, one test each. The companion to the before/after piece: that one argues the job changed, this one is the kit.
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EvalsEvals: the product skill nobody taught you
How to test a thing that gives a different answer every time. Written for product people, not ML engineers.
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The JobThe product manager, before and after
Two definitions of the same job title, examined properly. Only one of them is still senior.
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