Bryan O'Neill, CTO of FormAssembly, wrote a piece tracing three decades of the same mistake: - In the 1990s, some companies paid engineers per line of code, and got bloated, unmaintainable software …
Code Isn’t Product: The Discovery Debt AI Is Creating
There is a number that does not appear in most AI productivity reports: the percentage of AI-accelerated products that customers actually use. I call this gap discovery debt. Rich Mironov recently …
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We’re Hiring Product Managers for the Last Decade
The product manager skills we use to hire were built for a version of the job that no longer exists. Not outdated in the way that job descriptions lag reality by a year or two. Structurally wrong: …
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Agentic AI for Product Leaders: What You Actually Need to Know
After 25 years leading product and technology teams, I thought I understood technology cycles. The hype, the overpromise, the disappointment, the slow maturation into something genuinely useful. I …
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Agentic AI won’t fix your product leadership — it will expose it
Your product team just announced they are building an agentic system. You feel that familiar unease — the one you felt during the Agile roll-out that never really stuck, the data lake that became a …
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AI Won’t Save the Kingdoms We Built
There is a version of the AI transformation conversation I keep hearing from senior leaders, and it goes roughly like this: AI can surface dependencies, summarise context, reduce the cost of …
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