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Field notes from the frontier.

Short essays on AI product management, program leadership, and the craft of building digital products that people actually trust.

August 17, 20264 min read

The product manager role isn't disappearing. The generalist middle is.

A May 2026 survey of 1,500 product leaders says traditional PM roles are down 30%, and 70% in SaaS. The same report says hybrid product builders are up 10x. The job isn't going away. It's splitting, and most people haven't picked a side.

AIProductCareer

August 11, 20264 min read

Most AI budgets go to sales and marketing. Most AI returns don't.

MIT went through 300 enterprise AI deployments and found 95% delivered no measurable profit. The money is going to the half of the business where AI demos best, not the half where it pays.

AIProductAdoption

August 3, 20265 min read

Companies are threatening layoffs over AI adoption. Almost none defined what 'adopted' means.

60% of companies plan to lay off employees who won't adopt AI, and 54% of C-suite executives say the push is tearing their company apart. The problem isn't resistance. It's that nobody wrote down what "adopted" means.

AIProductChange Management

July 27, 20265 min read

Your AI agent doesn't need a security review. It needs a blast radius.

82% of executives are confident their AI agent policies work. Only 14.4% actually get security sign-off before an agent touches production. That gap is a product spec nobody wrote.

AIProductGovernance

July 24, 20265 min read

The acceptance criteria didn't disappear. They became evals.

Gartner says over 40% of agentic AI projects will be canceled by 2027. Most of them will fail for the same boring reason: nobody wrote a testable definition of done.

AIProductEvals

July 24, 20265 min read

RolesRadar: how I built an AI job search agent on n8n

RolesRadar is an AI job search automation I built on n8n. It reads my resume, scans live listings daily, and ranks the best-fit product and AI roles for me.

AI Automationn8nProductJob Search

July 10, 20266 min read

From prompts to products: turning GenAI experiments into shipped features

Notes on moving beyond demos, choosing evaluation metrics that matter, and building the operational muscle to ship AI features safely.

AIProductGenAI

June 18, 20265 min read

Program management for AI teams: cadence, clarity, and controlled chaos

How I run programs where research, engineering, and product move at different speeds without losing the plot.

Program ManagementAIOperations

May 2, 20264 min read

Designing for trust in AI products

Confidence, provenance, and the small UX choices that make users trust, or quietly abandon, an AI feature.

DesignAIUX