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Product Roadmaps: How the Best Product Teams Plan for Uncertainty

Audio Version ($) We need to talk about product roadmaps. I once worked at a startup where our product roadmap was literally an Excel spreadsheet full of feature ideas. Most of them came from our CEO. Our head of product simply prioritized the rows. Based on what, I have no idea.

Vibe Coding Best Practices: Avoid the Doom Loop with Planning and Code Reviews

Audio Version ($) - This link will only work for paid subscribers. I've written more software in the past six months than I've written in my entire lifetime. I started vibe coding in March 2025. My first foray was extraordinarily successful and then resulted in complete failure.

Outcomes vs. Outputs: What's the Difference and Why Does It Matter?

Audio version ($) - This link will only work for paid subscribers. Outcomes over outputs—everyone knows the mantra. But putting it into practice can be deceptively hard. It's relatively easy to understand the concept. We should focus on the impact of what we build rather than just shipping

Conversations with Claude: Can You Conduct a Content Audit?

Audio Version ($) During one of our recent Claude Code Office Hours, a participant asked, "Can we zoom out? Help me understand what I can use Claude Code for." This is a great question. I was so focused on how to help people set up Claude Code that I

Stakeholder Management for Product Teams: Show Your Work, Don't Sell Your Conclusions

Audio Version ($) Everyone I talk to is rushing to add AI features to their roadmap. And every stakeholder has an opinion about what they should be building. The challenge is we are forgetting our discovery fundamentals. We are reverting back to a feature factory. Delivery is getting faster and easier,

From Customer Interviews to an Opportunity Solution Tree—In Minutes

Most product teams know they should be interviewing customers. And more teams than ever are actually doing it. That's the good news. The bad news? Many teams are struggling with what comes next. I've written before about the challenge of interview synthesis—going from a stack

Context Engineering: 5 Familiar Strategies from Real Product Teams

Audio Version ($) I've been getting a lot of questions about why I'm diving so deep into Claude Code. So I want to take a step back and provide some context. Last March, when I started building my first AI product—the Product Talk Interview Coach—I

Context Rot: Why AI Gets Worse the Longer You Chat (And How to Fix It)

Audio Version ($) Have you ever noticed that AI gets worse the longer you talk to it? I first noticed this when I was trying to fix bugs on Replit. I'd spin in an endless cycle of asking the agent to fix something and it would report back that

How Does ChatGPT Work? A Guide for the Rest of Us

Audio Version ($) Everybody is buzzing about generative AI and there's a lot of jargon that comes along with it: tokens, embeddings, attention, neural networks, transformers. Whether we are talking about ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini, the large language models all work the same way. But understanding how they work

Exploring What's Just Now Possible: How AI-Powered Discovery and Expert Feedback Are Driving My 2026 Roadmap

Audio Version ($) 2025 was full of many surprises. Some good ones—I launched two new podcasts, I built my first AI products, I completely changed the way I work thanks to Claude Code. And some tough ones—I'm still struggling to fully recover from a severe ankle break

How to Use Claude Code: A Guide to Slash Commands, Agents, Skills, and Plug-ins

Audio Version ($) I've been going deep on Claude Code. I'm finding this has been a better strategy for getting value out of AI—rather than trying every new tool on the market. By focusing on one tool, I've been able to learn how to

2026 Product Conference List

We are starting to pull together our list of 2026 product conferences. This list is by no means exhaustive. If you know of product conferences that are not on the list and you think they should be, please send an email to conferences@producttalk.org. We’ll also keep updating

How to Build AI Workflows with Claude Code (Even If You're Not Technical)

Audio Version ($) My writing process used to be messy. I'd start with a brain dump of everything that was swirling in my head. Then I would try to structure it into an outline. But I often lost patience with that. So I'd just start writing. Then

How to Choose Which Tasks to Automate with AI (+50 Real Examples)

Audio Version ($) Every morning, I sit down at my computer with my cup of coffee and I type /today into Claude Code. I take my first few sips of coffee as I watch Claude retrieve new tasks from my Trello board, generate a today.md file with a list of

Lessons from 9 AI Product Teams: Emerging Themes from Just Now Possible

Audio Version ($) Stack Overflow built four versions of their AI-powered search, then killed it. Arize's team started building when "agent frameworks" didn't even exist. eSpark's former teachers are now writing eval code in Python. Over the past few months, I've

How to Use Claude Code Safely: A Non-Technical Guide to Managing Risk

Audio Version ($) I love that Claude Code allows me to build out my own personal operating system. I now have personal workflows for managing my to-do list, keeping up on academic research related to my work, hosting two podcasts, writing long-form weekly articles, designing courses, and much more. I used

Stop Repeating Yourself: Give Claude Code a Memory

Audio Version ($) "Can you critique the landing page for my new Story-Based Customer Interviews course?" I used to waste hours trying to get ChatGPT or Claude to adequately critique my work. I'd get frustrated by the generic feedback, the poor writing, and the suggestions that just

Claude Code: What It Is, How It's Different, and Why Non-Technical People Should Use It

Audio Version ($) Why is everyone talking about Claude Code? I'm seeing it pop up everywhere—in my LinkedIn feed, on product podcasts, and in my Slack communities. And it's not just developers talking about it. It's product managers, writers, researchers, consultants, you name it.

AI Changes Everything (And Nothing At All)

Audio Version ($) Every product team is wrestling with the rapid change brought on by generative AI. It's impacting our roadmaps and how we do our jobs. But not everything is changing. Many of the fundamentals stay exactly the same. Last week, I delivered this talk as part of

The Product Operating Model Explained: From Pilot Teams to Full Transformation

Audio Version ($) The product operating model is everywhere these days.  Since Marty Cagan and the Silicon Valley Product Group released TRANSFORMED: Moving to the Product Operating Model in 2024, it’s become nearly impossible to attend a product conference, scroll through LinkedIn, or walk to the office water cooler without

Customer Interview Analysis: Where AI Helps and Hurts

Audio Version ($) It's easy to get overwhelmed by continuous customer interviews. When you conduct a customer interview every week, the data starts to pile up. You collect hours of transcripts. If you aren't disciplined to synthesize each interview as you go, you can quickly fall behind.

21 Ways to Use AI at Work (And Build Your AI Product Toolbox)

Audio Version ($) I recently shared 15 ways I'm using AI at home—from fixing cooking disasters to researching school bonds. Each use case helped me build new AI skills: learning to chat with a large language model (LLM), providing the right context, verifying results, and much more. Now

15 Ways to Use AI at Home (and Fill Your AI Product Toolbox)

Audio Version ($) AI overwhelm is real. Whether you are a complete novice who isn't quite sure where to get started or deep into building an AI product, it's easy to feel like everyone else is light years ahead. AI is a disruptive technology. People are adopting

Q&A Session: Building AI Evals for the Interview Coach

I am falling deeper into the AI rabbit hole every day. Now, that’s not to say that I believe all the hype about AI. What I mean is that I’m excited to see what’s just now possible with AI (some may even say I’ve become a

How I Designed & Implemented Evals for Product Talk’s Interview Coach

What does generative AI make just now possible? This is a question that I’ve been obsessed with over the past few months. While I’ve been primarily working alone, I don’t want to go on this journey in isolation. I believe there’s so much benefit to working