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The Layoffs Aren’t About AI Replacing You. They’re About Funding It.

Pankaj Bisht — Sat, 23 May 2026 18:11:07 +0000

Silicon Valley is firing its future customers. Tech companies have cut 113,000 jobs in 2026 to fund AI infrastructure, betting that the rest of the economy will keep paying salaries so people still exist to buy what AI produces. Each company's logic works independently. However, the aggregate is where it falls apart.

This blog post covers the subject in detail - https://medium.com/write-a-catalyst/the-layoffs-arent-about-ai-replacing-you-they-re-about-funding-it-847ec36b58cd

Stop Writing PRDs for AI Features. Instead, Start Writing Evals.

Pankaj Bisht — Fri, 22 May 2026 12:47:40 +0000

My friend spent two weeks writing acceptance criteria for an AI summarisation feature. By the time it was signed off, the team had shipped three prompt variants, the vendor had updated the model, and the criteria described a feature that no longer existed.

Traditional product specs (PRD) assume everything behaves predictably. With AI, nothing is guaranteed. It shifts, drifts, and surprises us.

Now the question is: If PRDs don’t hold up, what replaces them?
I wrote an article recently about the importance of Evals.

Here is the link:
https://medium.com/analysts-corner/stop-writing-prds-for-ai-features-instead-start-writing-evals-a4bab4f09484

Claude Cowork vs OpenClaw: Risk and Governance (Product Lens)

Pankaj Bisht — Wed, 20 May 2026 10:54:38 +0000

I spent a good chunk of last week reading takes on Cowork versus OpenClaw.

Just to let you know, both are AI agents that do work on your local computer, not just chat about it. Cowork is Anthropic’s own product, built into the Claude desktop app.

OpenClaw is an open-source project that overtook React as the most-starred project on GitHub in about two months.

So, of course, everyone has started pitching them against each other. Which one wins? Which one should you bet your workflow on?

I think that’s the wrong question. And I think it’s wrong for a reason that has nothing to do with AI.

Here is the post that talks about the subject - https://medium.com/ai-snapshots/claude-cowork-vs-openclaw-which-ai-agent-wins-is-it-even-a-fair-debate-06e6c2e19424

As a PM, stop writing PRDs for engineers. Start writing them for your future self

Pankaj Bisht — Tue, 19 May 2026 11:59:49 +0000

Last week, I opened a PRD I had written about eighteen months ago. Someone on the audit team needed to know why we had shipped the feature the way we did.

I sat there reading my own document for ten minutes and still couldn’t tell what I had been thinking when I wrote it. The document had failed the one person who had ever come back to it. Me.

Link to read the full article:

https://medium.com/analysts-corner/as-a-pm-stop-writing-prds-for-engineers-start-writing-them-for-your-future-self-bf9ff89e2448