When I started on my journey to learn more about AI, I didn’t expect it to help me find the joy in my job again. I’ve been a product manager for ab...
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This really hit home for me. As a software engineer also with 20+ years of experience, your journey of reframing AI from a threat to a tool is exactly what I'm going through as I learn 3D graphics (Blender/Three.js) for the first time.
You've perfectly captured it: it's not about the tools themselves, but about using them to rediscover the human, creative side of what we do.
Thanks for sharing this perspective. It's very inspiring.
I'm glad this resonated with you! The journey of sifting through the hype and finding what works is hard. I'm so excited for your journey!
I think that you distilled the essence of being good at any skill in the 'AI era.' I would summarize it like this: find out what you’re good at, what you truly love about your craft, and then use AI to amplify it ⚡️🤘
Great summary!
This was a great read. What you’ve described about rediscovering joy in product management via AI tools really mirrors something I’ve come to believe deeply after building out my work with Claude and orchestrating large feature flows in my own orchestration when I built my app, ScrumBuddy. AI isn’t here to replace the gut-instinct or the messy judgement calls; it’s here to restore bandwidth to the parts of product work people actually love; vision, customer insight, trade-off thinking, by automating the grind.
Too often folks lean on AI for surface tasks and then complain it feels impersonal or shallow. The magic comes when you lean in with intention, you use AI to help you prototype roadmaps faster, triage feedback more intelligently, and test hypotheses without burning weeks. In doing that, you can burn off the dull stuff and stay close to what makes product meaningful.
What stands out in your journey is how you let AI amplify your PM role rather than hijack it. That balance, using tools for insight, not outsourcing judgement, is what I think will define the next era of product work. If more PMs treated AI as collaborator rather than substitute, I believe we’ll see better products and more fulfilled makers. Thanks for sharing this. If nothing else, it reminds me why I do what I do.
thank you so much! It's easy to get caught up in the hype. Instead, we should approach any new tool or concept, from DevOps and Shift Left to AI, with curiosity.
I couldn’t agree more!
As a project manager, sometimes it feels like I’m not working on products but just transporting PowerPoint presentations and meeting notes.
Then I started using ChatGOT’s AI Slides feature. I can simply input the requirements document, and it automatically generates a PowerPoint outline for me. It’s such a time saver!
100% having things that automate the tedium is amazing!
It's amazing how briefly and swiftly you've managed to summarize the whole point of AI and its main purpose.
It's become almost a trend to be terrified about AI taking everyone's jobs, but only a few fully realize that it's just a tool you can use for your benefit.
I'm a technical person - a software engineer, and even engineering can't be replaced by AI, you still need to be the main pilot when creating a product.
The same goes for product managers. AI is multiple levels below what PMs actually do, they orchestrate. Some might argue that AI can describe the steps and guidelines required for a project.
Sure, but:
Can AI make other people work together and feel happy about it?
Can AI convince human beings that they're creating something that matters?
Can AI collaborate effectively between stakeholders?
. . .
HARD NO!
We need humans in the loop! For software engineers, there are so many misconceptions around what your job is versus what it isn't. Writing code isn't taking into consideration best practices, security, scalability, what tech debt you are taking on intentionally, architecting, and so much more. Thank you!
Great take on how AI enhances our work and wont replace it. The point about Product being the orchestrator and not the vibe coder couldn’t be more accurate.