Changing roles

Lenny Rachitsky, who writes Lenny's Newsletter for product managers, reports that summit speakers disagreed on process but agreed that judgement matters more as AI makes building easier.

AI newsletter writer Nate B. Jones argues that one person's speed with AI agents can outrun a team's review and decisions, and names six principles for raising team output.

Marty Cagan of the product consultancy SVPG argues that the current push for fewer managers is temporary, and that each craft still needs leaders who are expert in it.

Two engineering managers at Codacy, a maker of code-quality tools, say AI tools let each engineer start several tasks at once, so they now limit how much work is open.

Aha!, a maker of product-planning software, built an AI app builder for product managers that creates a design system first and uses ready-made parts for sign-in and data.