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  • What Gets Lost When Becoming AI-Native

    What Gets Lost When Becoming AI-Native

    Many tech leaders have seen the Notion feedback automation intake funnel. A piece of feedback, in this case, a bug report, comes in from somewhere, AI triages and categorizes it in a Notion database, routes it to the right team, pulls up related discussions and potentially relevant context, notifies that team on Slack, and drafts…

  • Your Company Already Has a Second Operating Model

    Your Company Already Has a Second Operating Model

    Someone in your company built something to learn or fix an immediate problem, not to run as a production service. That’s happening more frequently with AI-enabled development. They built to learn, not to earn, to borrow Marty Cagan’s vernacular. The artifact they created exists to test an idea, a workflow, or a customer reaction —…

  • AI Made You Accountable for Decisions You Never Saw

    AI Made You Accountable for Decisions You Never Saw

    Your calendar looks the same as it did a year ago. The same standups, the same one-on-ones, roughly the same number of meetings with roughly the same amount of stuff said out loud. But far more work is getting done in the gaps between those meetings, and more work getting done means more decisions getting…

  • If You Want Compliance, Start with Celebration

    If You Want Compliance, Start with Celebration

    AI broke the model compliance was built around. The issue is no longer preventing people from building software. The issue is now knowing what already exists. When anyone in the company can ship working tools, governance stops being primarily a process problem and becomes a visibility problem. That visibility comes from culture, not tools or…

  • What Is Product Management For When Everyone Builds

    What Is Product Management For When Everyone Builds

    AI changed who can build software. That part is obvious by now. What’s less obvious is what happens to the coordination functions inside technology organizations — product management, compliance, UI/UX design, QA — that existed because building took time. These functions grew up inside a centralized development pipeline where PMs defined work, compliance was baked…

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