Teresa Torres

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.

Product Builders - All Things Product Podcast with Teresa Torres & Petra Wille

Listen to this episode on: Spotify | Apple Podcasts Is product management dead? Petra Wille and Teresa Torres unpack the big question making the rounds at conferences: Is PM disappearing—or evolving? Their take: product management isn’t dead. But the traditional product trio (PM, design, engineering) is collapsing into something

Bad Advice - All Things Product Podcast with Teresa Torres & Petra Wille

Listen to this episode on: Spotify | Apple Podcasts What happens when AI starts giving advice in your voice — advice you’d never actually give? In this episode, Petra Wille and Teresa Torres unpack the rise of AI “clones” built from podcast transcripts and public content. They explore where experimentation is

Building Agent Studio: How Medable Is Using Agentic AI to Accelerate Clinical Trials

Listen to this episode on: Spotify | Apple Podcasts What if AI could help reduce the 10-plus years it takes to get a new drug to market? That's the driving ambition behind Medable's agentic platform—and the bet that led them to build Agent Studio. In this

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

Staying Sane - All Things Product Podcast with Teresa Torres & Petra Wille

Listen to this episode on: Spotify | Apple Podcasts When the world feels like it’s spinning out, it can be hard to stay grounded—especially if you’re someone who cares deeply and pays attention. In this episode, Petra Wille and Teresa Torres talk about what it looks like to

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

Kill Your Darlings - All Things Product Podcast with Teresa Torres & Petra Wille

Listen to this episode on: Spotify | Apple Podcasts In this episode of All Things Product, Teresa Torres and Petra Wille tackle one of the hardest decisions in product and business: when—and how—to kill your darlings. They dig into the uncomfortable middle ground between obvious failure and runaway success:

Building GitHub for Product Management: How Momental Uses AI to Find Merge Conflicts in Strategy

Listen to this episode on: Spotify | Apple Podcasts What if an AI could spot the moment two product teams start pulling in opposite directions -- before it derails a quarter? In this episode of Just Now Possible, Teresa Torres talks with Matthias and Charlotte Kleverud, co-founders of Momental, about their

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,

Lost in the Woods - All Things Product Podcast with Teresa Torres & Petra Wille

Listen to this episode on: Spotify | Apple Podcasts Ever feel like your product team is “lost in the woods”? Petra Wille and Teresa Torres borrow a set of “lost person” patterns (what people tend to do when they realize they’re lost) and map them to how teams behave when

Let's Read Continuous Discovery Habits Together (March 2026)

Continuous Discovery Habits turns five this year. And to celebrate we are reading the book together. Each month, I am releasing an in-depth reading guide that includes: * The chapters we will be reading * A preview of the most important concepts we'll be learning about * Short videos you can

Boundaries Between Product & Engineering - All Things Product Podcast with Teresa Torres & Petra Wille

Listen to this episode on: Spotify | Apple Podcasts Where exactly is the boundary between product and engineering—and what happens when it gets blurry? In this episode, Teresa Torres and Petra Wille dig into a tension many product teams quietly struggle with: product managers taking on responsibility for bugs, tech

Building AI Sales Reps: How ShowMe Orchestrates Voice, Video, and Multi-Agent Workflows to Close Deals

Listen to this episode on: Spotify | Apple Podcasts What happens when you treat an AI agent not as a chatbot, but as a full teammate on your sales team – one that can jump on video calls, demo your product, make phone calls, and follow up over days? In this episode

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

Support System for Product Leaders - All Things Product Podcast with Teresa Torres & Petra Wille

Listen to this episode on: Spotify | Apple Podcasts Product leaders are overwhelmed — and it’s not just you. Between shrinking headcount, constant AI disruption, economic uncertainty, and nonstop context switching, many product leaders are trying to do more with less while still protecting their teams. In this episode of All

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

Claude Code - All Things Product Podcast with Teresa Torres & Petra Wille

Listen to this episode on: Spotify | Apple Podcasts Petra finally carved out time to try Claude Code—and immediately ran into the “this tool thinks everything is a code repo” reality. In this episode, Petra and Teresa unpack what it’s like to move from Claude-in-the-browser to Claude on your

Building Earmark: How a Two-Person Team Turned Meetings into Finished Work

Listen to this episode on: Spotify | Apple Podcasts What if your meetings could actually produce the artifacts you need—specs, tickets, slides—before the call even ends? In this episode of Just Now Possible, Teresa Torres talks with Mark Barbir (CEO) and Sanden Gocka (Co-Founder), the co-founders of Earmark, about

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

Groupthink When Hiring - All Things Product Podcast with Teresa Torres & Petra Wille

Listen to this episode on: Spotify | Apple Podcasts Is hiring broken—or just badly designed? In this episode of All Things Product, Petra Wille and Teresa Torres unpack what’s really going wrong in modern hiring processes. From AI-fueled application overload to endless interview loops and “casual” team lunches that

Let's Read Continuous Discovery Habits Together (February 2026)

Continuous Discovery Habits turns five this year. And to celebrate we are reading the book together. Each month, I am releasing an in-depth reading guide that includes: * The chapters we will be reading * A preview of the most important concepts we'll be learning about * Short videos you can

Build vs. Buy - All Things Product Podcast with Teresa Torres & Petra Wille

Listen to this episode on: Spotify | Apple Podcasts Build vs. buy is one of those product decisions that never goes away — and AI is changing how teams think about it (but maybe not in the way you expect). In this episode of All Things Product, Petra Wille and Teresa Torres

When Trust Is Everything: Building AI for Physicians at Healio

Listen to this episode on: Spotify | Apple Podcasts How do you build an AI product for an audience that can't afford to be wrong—and won't trust you until you prove it? In this episode of Just Now Possible, Teresa Torres talks with three leaders from

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