Great post! It’s so impressive that we can move from experimentation to actual product prototype in a matter of days now without having to depend on engineering talent. I’m a product manager as well, and the empowerment I get from CC is just amazing. I’m able to build/tweek/rebuild just on a whim!
Thank you! And yeah, part of me wishes I were still working as a PM just because it'd be so great to be able to use AI to iterate on ideas and hand engineers working prototypes instead of just tickets. But OTOH I'd still have to wait for engineering to build the real product, and CC is destroying my ability to wait.
SaaS is halfway there, but of course I got distracted by other tools I need to build for myself, plus I'm in the midst of closing an acquisition and then of course my toddler has just walked into my office and it is suddenly imperative that I explain to him how a mouse works. I'll get there, though!
Your sentence about GPT 3.5 made me think about this: The SWE benchmark’s results went from 40% to 80% in something crazy like 11 months. And it just keeps getting better and better.
Thanks so much! And yeah it's beyond nuts. I spend a lot of time every day working with AI, reading about AI and just generally trying to keep up, and I feel like I'm barely treading water on staying up on the latest progress.
Great post! It’s so impressive that we can move from experimentation to actual product prototype in a matter of days now without having to depend on engineering talent. I’m a product manager as well, and the empowerment I get from CC is just amazing. I’m able to build/tweek/rebuild just on a whim!
Would be keen to read how the SaaS build goes!
Thank you! And yeah, part of me wishes I were still working as a PM just because it'd be so great to be able to use AI to iterate on ideas and hand engineers working prototypes instead of just tickets. But OTOH I'd still have to wait for engineering to build the real product, and CC is destroying my ability to wait.
SaaS is halfway there, but of course I got distracted by other tools I need to build for myself, plus I'm in the midst of closing an acquisition and then of course my toddler has just walked into my office and it is suddenly imperative that I explain to him how a mouse works. I'll get there, though!
Great article here!
Your sentence about GPT 3.5 made me think about this: The SWE benchmark’s results went from 40% to 80% in something crazy like 11 months. And it just keeps getting better and better.
Again, amazing article!
Thanks so much! And yeah it's beyond nuts. I spend a lot of time every day working with AI, reading about AI and just generally trying to keep up, and I feel like I'm barely treading water on staying up on the latest progress.
The tools keep getting better. The question is whether your processes can keep up.
If you’re thinking about readiness in a world where AI ships faster than strategy, I write about it: https://vivander.substack.com/p/the-future-arrived-six-years-early