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blog.exe.dev

Caring vs. knowing

Thoughts on how to DIY sustainably.

er-certification.statichost.page

The Enshittification Resistant Software

A self certification process with a somewhat official blessing.

liamnugent.me

The most important product decision is what you don’t build

Ask a team what they shipped this year and you’ll get a list. Ask what they killed and the room goes quiet.

sjg.io

AI is making us build too much

AI has made code, tests, policy, documentation, and organisational machinery almost free to produce. It has not made any of them free to own.

worseonpurpose.com

Why products get worse

Where quality lives, and how companies drain it from your products without a metric moving.

blog.mastykarz.nl

Your product didn’t get worse

Customers still like your product and keep renewing. Meanwhile, their expectations may be changing in ways your usual signals won’t reveal.

nyn.me

The singular viable product

Why software built for one is no longer an escape from scale, but its new starting point.

davesresearch.com

A good move is enabling

Don’t build into dead ends: anticipate what happens next.

claude.com

The AI-native SDLC playbook

Anthropic’s stage-by-stage playbook for the AI-native SDLC: how teams plan, design, build, test, deploy, and maintain software with Claude.

how.complexsystems.fail

How complex systems fail

Latent flaws, hindsight bias, and operator adaptation. Offering product teams a framework for system safety.

nngroup.com

A concrete definition of “Product Sense”

Predicting which product decisions will succeed based on patterns learned through experimentation — and knowing when those patterns apply.

vaughntan.org

Against bigness

Organisations say they want innovation but keep killing it. The problem is the organisational decision-making machinery.

uxdesign.cc

The flaw is the feature

What is polish actually worth?

antmurphy.me

Exploring vs Exploiting

The two modes of product discovery.

slack.design

How I validated design decisions before writing production code

We can finally generate evidence before committing to anything.

davesresearch.com

Self-fulfilling projects

The projects that defy clarity and specificity.

blog.mozilla.ai

The interface is no longer the product

The deck, doc, or dashboard becomes the output, not the source of truth.

daverupert.com

The duality of language models in the browser

AI in the browser reeks of a product manager trying to hit a KPI to shoehorn AI into everything.

oreilly.com

The organization is the bottleneck

Everyone is adopting AI coding tools. Engineers are writing code faster than ever. But are organizations actually delivering value faster?

every.to

A guide to agent-native Product Management

A step-by-step guide to using agentic capabilities for better product management