Teresa Torres

Inside eSpark’s AI Teacher Assistant: RAG, Evals, and Real Classroom Needs

Listen to this episode on: Spotify | Apple Podcasts How do you build an AI-powered assistant that teachers will actually use? In this episode of Just Now Possible, Teresa Torres talks with Thom van der Doef (Principal Product Designer), Mary Gurley (Director of Learning Design & Product Manager), and Ray

AI Evals & Discovery - All Things Product Podcast with Teresa Torres & Petra Wille

Listen to this episode on: Spotify | Apple Podcasts Building AI products isn’t just about clever prompts and orchestration—it’s about knowing if what you’ve built actually works. In this episode, Teresa Torres and Petra Wille dive deep into AI evals: how they’re defined, why they’re

Turning Disruption into Opportunity: The Stack Overflow AI Story with Ellen Brandenberger

Listen to this episode on: Spotify | Apple Podcasts When ChatGPT launched, Stack Overflow faced a cataclysmic shift: developer behavior was changing overnight. In this episode, Teresa Torres talks with Ellen Brandenburger, former product leader at Stack Overflow, about how her team navigated the disruption, prototyped AI features, and eventually built

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

Building AI Products - All Things Product Podcast with Teresa Torres & Petra Wille

Listen to this episode on: Spotify | Apple Podcasts In this episode of All Things Product, Petra Wille flips the script and asks Teresa Torres a big, timely question: How do product teams learn to build AI-powered products—beyond just dabbling with ChatGPT? Teresa shares fresh insights from her own

Podcast Preview - Just Now Possible

Listen to this preview on: Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Read the transcript ($) How AI products come to life—straight from the builders themselves. In each episode, we dive deep into how teams spotted a customer problem, experimented with AI, prototyped solutions, and shipped real features. We dig into everything from workflows

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

Stop Chasing Promotions - All Things Product Podcast with Teresa Torres & Petra Wille

Listen to this episode on: Spotify | Apple Podcasts So many of us chase promotions as if they’re the ultimate career milestone—but are they really the best goal? In this conversation, Petra Wille and Teresa Torres unpack why promotions can be a tricky (and sometimes misleading) target, what to

Announcing: Just Now Possible

I am excited to launch my new podcast: Just Now Possible. How AI products come to life—straight from the builders themselves. In each episode, we dive deep into how teams spotted a customer problem, experimented with AI, prototyped solutions, and shipped real features. We dig into everything from workflows

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

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

Listen to this episode on: Spotify | Apple Podcasts We’re back from our summer break! In this first episode of the new season, Petra Wille and Teresa Torres catch up on Product at Heart and dive into the conference’s 2025 theme: curation. From backlogs and customer segments to product

Building My First AI Product: 6 Lessons from My 90-Day Deep Dive

Back in March, I was still struggling with how fast everything was moving with AI: RAG, MCP, agents, tools, evals, prompt engineering. It was a lot. Don't get me wrong. I was using ChatGPT and Claude in the web browser every day. But I was struggling to keep

AI Prototyping: How 11 Real-World Teams Are Transforming Their Work with Lovable

If there’s one AI tool that should be impacting your product discovery work right now, it’s AI prototyping. Tools like Lovable, V0, Bolt, Replit, Base44, and Magic Patterns feel like magic. They make it easy to spin up an interactive prototype in minutes. It’s incredible. If you

Behind the Scenes: Building the Product Talk Interview Coach

I’ve been diving deep into how generative AI can help us build new skills. I’m firmly in the “AI should augment (not replace) humans at work” camp. I’m concerned about the short-term impact on entry-level employees. I’m concerned about brain rot in the rest

Summer Break - All Things Product Podcast with Teresa Torres & Petra Wille

Listen to this episode on: Spotify | Apple Podcasts In this quick update, Teresa and Petra share their plans for a summer break. With August just around the corner—and in true European fashion—they’re hitting pause to rest, recharge, and enjoy some time outdoors. Expect a return to regularly

Go to the Source - All Things Product Podcast with Teresa Torres & Petra Wille

Listen to this episode on: Spotify | Apple Podcasts In this episode of All Things Product, Petra Wille and Teresa Torres unpack one of their favorite guiding principles: "Go find the source." With the rise of social media hot takes and oversimplified content, it’s easy to misunderstand product

Expecting Resistance: Handling Stakeholder & Leader Concerns During Product Operating Model Pilot

Trying to adopt the product operating model? One of the keys to success is remembering that it’s not just about product teams—it’s an organization-wide transformation. This is why Hope Gurion and I have been doing a series on organizational change. In our years as product coaches,

Red Flags When Choosing A Coach - All Things Product Podcast with Teresa Torres & Petra Wille

Listen to this episode on: Spotify | Apple Podcasts In this episode of All Things Product, Petra Wille and Teresa Torres dig into one of the most common — and tricky — questions they get: How do I choose the right product coach? If you’ve ever scrolled past 7,500 “product coaches”

Managing Pushback: Handling Pilot Team Resistance During Product Operating Model Rollout

Trying to undertake a major change like rolling out the product operating model isn’t easy. A lot of companies struggle with this. But that doesn’t mean it’s impossible. There are teams out there that are successfully making this transformation. And I know that because I’ve seen

Funding Projects Vs. Teams - All Things Product Podcast with Teresa Torres & Petra Wille

Listen to this episode on: Spotify | Apple Podcasts In this episode of All Things Product, Petra Wille and Teresa Torres dive deep into a question from a listener: What’s the real difference between organizations that fund projects and those that fund teams? It’s a deceptively simple question that

Leading Or Managing Chaos - All Things Product Podcast with Teresa Torres & Petra Wille

Listen to this episode on: Spotify | Apple Podcasts In this episode, Petra Wille gives us a behind-the-scenes look at her newest framework—the Product Leadership Wheel. Building on the success of her PM Wheel, Petra shares how she’s tackling the complexity of product leadership by helping leaders

Preparing Leaders and Stakeholders to Support Product Operating Model Pilot Teams

A single champion can often inspire an organization to shift to the product operating model—especially if that champion is the CEO or CPO. But that’s only the first step. Your transformation will get stuck without support from people throughout your company. Over the past few months, I’ve

AI Prototyping - All Things Product Podcast with Teresa Torres & Petra Wille

Listen to this episode on: Spotify | Apple Podcasts AI prototyping tools are mushrooming—Replit, V0, Bolt, WindSurf, and more—but do they actually help with discovery work? In this episode of All Things Product, Petra Wille and Teresa Torres discuss how AI-powered tools can supercharge assumption testing, where they

Building Skills: Setting Pilot Teams Up for Product Operating Model Success

Change is exciting, but too much change can feel chaotic. When making a big change like adopting the product operating model or continuous discovery, how do you tap into the excitement while also controlling the chaos? This is a question that Hope Gurion and I have been exploring over the

What is Product Ops? - 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 unpack one of the most ambiguous roles in product organizations: Product Operations. What is product ops, really? Is it strategy alignment? BI and analytics? Coaching? Stakeholder management? All of the