Strategy

A June 2026 NBER working paper matched more than 100,000 GitHub developers against their AI usage telemetry. Developers using autonomous agents committed 180 percent more code. Their releases rose 30 percent. The gain is enormous where code gets written, and it decays at every step after that. Marty Cagan named the phenomenon last week: the AI productivity paradox. He also points out that while nearly everyone now agrees it exists, almost nobody agrees on why. ...

I recently needed to understand a long, cross-departmental process. It was documented across a huge slide deck, a few forms, and half a dozen fields scattered across internal systems. No single source of truth. In my experience, the right tool for this is a checklist. Not a dashboard, not an assistant. Just a simple list of boxes to check in the right order. So I used Claude to read through the materials and produce a tight summary of the process and its steps. I reviewed it, then asked Claude to turn that summary into a checklist draft. I refined it. I’m using it now, and I’ll keep refining it as I go. ...

Intro Roadmapping is one of the most critical activities a product management leader must undertake. A roadmap is not a building blueprint; it does not list exactly what must be done. It is more like a map for early explorers, used to give direction, with route adjustments as new lands and currents are discovered. Over the years, I have had the pleasure of working with brilliant people who taught me a lot about how this should be done, most notably Yoav Stahl and Kevin Savina. I’ve refined their methods to better fit the agile reality. ...