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How AI companies build šŸ› ️, building is cheaper than thinking šŸ§ , picking the next hill šŸ”️

AI makes execution cheaper and experimentation faster, but product expertise still matters. The advantage shifts toward judgment ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ 

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TLDR Product Management 2026-09-08
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News & Trends
How The Leading AI Companies Do Product (9 minute read)

AI makes execution cheaper and experimentation faster, but product expertise still matters. The advantage shifts toward judgment, customer understanding, taste, and verification.
Is behavioural science becoming AI's next product category? (6 minute read)

AI vendors are increasingly marketing behavioral science, emotional calibration, and conversation design as core capabilities.
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Opinions & Tutorials
How to name things (7 minute read)

Good naming reflects clear thinking. Precise language makes systems easier to understand and can expose deeper design flaws.
Slop-Creep: When Building Gets Cheaper Than Thinking (7 minute read)

AI agents have created "slop-creep" - the accumulation of unnecessary features, abstractions, and infrastructure built simply because they are cheap to produce. Without implementation friction, weak ideas survive longer, especially in large companies where software persists.
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Resources & Tools
Free product courses, taught by people who've shipped (Sponsor)

Pendo's Learning Lab just launched with practical courses by product experts on building AI agents, sharpening product judgment, and becoming more AI-native. All courses are self-paced, free, and come with a badge worth sharing on LinkedIn. Explore the courses→
Build a SaaS App Without Coding (16 minute read)

Product managers should build engineering understanding with AI as product and engineering roles converge.
How to find insights (5 minute read)

AI may create more analytics questions than it eliminates. The winning tools could look more like Excel than SaaS, giving agents a portable workspace to explore data and compound insights.
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Miscellaneous
Product Manager, Applied AI at TLDR ($200k base + $60k bonus, Fully Remote)

TLDR is hiring its first PM to help build the agent-first operating layer used across the company. We’re looking for a builder who has shipped real products / systems with LLMs. Click here to learn more.
AI Can Climb the Hill. Humans Pick the Next One (3 minute read)

AI can increasingly handle execution, but humans still choose the next hill to climb. Consumer AI's biggest opportunity may be helping people feel happier and more connected, not merely more productive.
Applied AI Doesn't Work (14 minute read)

AI creates little value when it simply speeds up a broken process. Companies should redesign the workflow first, then use software, agents, and humans where each is best suited.
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Quick Links
How to write a definition of done for an AI feature (3 minute read)

Evals tell you whether AI works, not whether it creates value.
Am I the Only Weirdo in This Company? (3 minute read)

Workplace conformity does not always mean agreement.

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