Yes! I've learned a lot from people's experiences vibe coding with AI. Thank you for the interviews and tips in your newsletter to help me stay current on AI!
I learned from your recent AI-supported coding experience in your newsletter. Very thankful that you took the time to explain your product thinking, along with your AI building!
I loved how you balanced excitement and realism when discussing the role of PMs in the age of AI. The point about not just “following the hype,” but actually understanding the technical foundations and the real impact on users, is crucial, and often overlooked.
As a PM working with AI products, I feel our biggest challenge is translating technical possibilities into tangible (and explainable!) business value. We know AI is a value-generating engine, but are the initiatives aligned with business strategy? Are they viable under real business conditions? Or are we just experimenting with innovation for its own sake?
Thanks for the thought-provoking and well-written piece!
Dean’s Smokejumper Survival Guide for AI Product Management Initiatives
- Remain calm and focus on the problem space.
- Feel their pains and learn their gains.
- Decode the data reality before you hallucinate solutions.
- Know what AI playing field you’ve picked.
- Unpack unknowns before they unpack your timeline.
- Optimize your product ops with prompt engineering, not more meetings.
- Build on tiny bets, not Titanic assumptions.
- Scale smartly—start with cohorts, not chaos.
- Socialize an outcomes blueprint people can actually follow.
> If you’re not sweating a little, it’s not product management—it’s cosplay.
YMMV
Thank you Dean! I love these best practices!
Great article Amy. Too many side projects (cool in their own way) but the real super power is the combination of product thinking + vibe coding.
Yes! I've learned a lot from people's experiences vibe coding with AI. Thank you for the interviews and tips in your newsletter to help me stay current on AI!
Vibe coding is the best! And according to the dev team...also the worst. We're going to split the difference on this one.
I learned from your recent AI-supported coding experience in your newsletter. Very thankful that you took the time to explain your product thinking, along with your AI building!
I loved how you balanced excitement and realism when discussing the role of PMs in the age of AI. The point about not just “following the hype,” but actually understanding the technical foundations and the real impact on users, is crucial, and often overlooked.
As a PM working with AI products, I feel our biggest challenge is translating technical possibilities into tangible (and explainable!) business value. We know AI is a value-generating engine, but are the initiatives aligned with business strategy? Are they viable under real business conditions? Or are we just experimenting with innovation for its own sake?
Thanks for the thought-provoking and well-written piece!
Thank you for confirming my feelings that we have a lot of product thinking to do with AI inside!