TLDR Product Management 2026-05-12
Fix delivery first π, application performance β
, death of the roadmap β οΈ
Fix delivery first (7 minute read)
Product transformations fail when teams chase OKRs, discovery, strategy, or AI before fixing delivery. If teams cannot ship quickly and reliably, everything else becomes slower, weaker, and harder to trust.
Customer development has an AI problem (4 minute read)
AI makes it easy to build too much, too fast. Product teams need clearer outcomes, direct customer validation and the discipline to stop work that does not move toward a Minimum Productive Outcome.
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Resources & Tools
How vulnerable is your identity stack? (Sponsor)
Many ID verification providers are "black boxes" built on third-party wrappers, leading to hidden latencies and brittle integrations. Learn why a
vertically-integrated stack is essential to eliminate vendor-on-vendor lag, ensure architectural integrity, and truly own your user's trust by verifying the tech behind your verifier.
Read the blog here.The computers talk to us now (4 minute read)
Computers can now talk to us and do real skilled work. Software, teams, and organizations must adapt to a world where agents are no longer just tools, but active participants in how systems get built and used.
Hidden Technical Debt of AI Systems: Agent Harness (15 minute read)
Agent harnesses are hidden AI technical debt. As models improve, today's prompts, workflows, and tool wrappers will become obsolete, so teams should keep harnesses thin, invest in durable skills and evals, and build systems they can replace easily.
Minimally Viable Consistency (5 minute read)
Organizations need enough consistency to stay aligned, but not so much that teams lose flexibility. AI can help translate across different ways of working, as long as it does not replace the human sensemaking that creates real alignment.
Escape from agentic loop (5 minute read)
AI agent orchestration can become βdoom building,β draining attention while feeling productive. Most agent work should be supervised through clear scopes and review blocks, while staying deeply involved only in the creative work that needs human judgment.
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