Notes · Topic

AI.

How a product leader actually builds with AI: Claude workflows, AI-assisted PRDs and prototypes, and where the speed helps or hurts.

AI · Leadership 3 min read
AI isn't making me think less. It's freeing up my head for what matters.

Research says AI can make us lazy thinkers. My experience is the opposite: it takes the mental busywork, so I can spend my thinking where it counts.
Product · AI 5 min read
How restaurant brands can get ready for AI agent ordering

Guests can now order food through ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Google Maps. What a restaurant brand needs in place before an AI agent orders on a guest's behalf.
Product · AI 3 min read
From PRD to prototype with AI: a workflow for product managers

How to turn a PRD into a working prototype with AI in an afternoon, why the PRD-first order matters, and what an AI prototype should and shouldn't be used for.
Product · AI 4 min read
How to write a PRD with AI (without skipping the thinking)

AI can draft a PRD in minutes, but a polished PRD built on vague thinking is worse than none. The workflow I use with Claude, and where the human judgment goes.
AI · Product 3 min read
I was bearish on AI agents. Then I built my own MCP.

I rolled my eyes at agentic AI until I built an MCP for ordering fast food. Why agents cut the effort to value, and why company buy-in is the real test.
AI · Product 5 min read
What is an MCP server? I built one for my family's chores app to find out

I put an MCP server on my family's chores app, and now Claude updates chores in plain conversation. What MCP is, how it works, and what it taught me.
Leadership · AI 2 min read
Six months ago I called myself a dinosaur. Now I have the opposite problem.

Getting fluent with AI means letting go of the part of the work I loved. The craft didn't disappear. It moved.
Product · AI 2 min read
It's not one magic prompt. It's a pipeline.

How my consulting site gets built with Claude, ChatGPT, GitHub and Vercel, and where I show up in the flow.
Product · AI 2 min read
I set out to build a finance tracker. I ended up with three apps.

When code takes minutes, your ideas speed up to match your tools, not your judgment.
Product · AI 3 min read
Volume is now free. Quality isn't.

AI made content cheap to produce. When volume is free, quality becomes the scarce resource, and the people who can enforce it become more valuable.
Product · AI 4 min read
Clarity isn't process overhead. It's the work.

AI let me build prototypes faster than ever, until I couldn't say what problem they solved. Why clarity on the problem is the work, not overhead.
AI 3 min read
I stopped using Claude as a tool. Now it works like a collaborator.

I stopped treating Claude like a smarter search engine. How skills turned it into a collaborator that knows my templates, formats and guardrails.
Product · AI 3 min read
I Built a Working Product in 20 Minutes. Here's the Workflow That Made It Possible.

Not a prototype. Not a rough sketch. A documented, visual, working proof-of-concept in under 20 minutes.
AI 2 min read
I Spent $25 and Three Hours on Something I Could Have Done in 30 Minutes

I handed simple CSS work to AI and burned $25 and three hours on a 30-minute job. What it taught me about when to delegate to AI and when to just do it.
Product · AI 2 min read
The PRD Isn't the Problem. The Barrier to Writing One Is.

The PRD isn't the bottleneck; the effort of writing one is. The first in a series on using AI to lower the barrier to writing good product requirements.
Product · AI 2 min read
Is the PRD dead?

AI makes it tempting to skip straight to prototyping. Why the PRD isn't dead: the thinking it forces keeps fast prototypes pointed at a real problem.