Product Management

Evals Are the New PRD: Why Your Traditional Product Management Playbook Is Dead

The traditional product management playbook is obsolete. As AI model capabilities leap forward unpredictably, execution becomes cheap and judgment becomes the only scarce resource. Discover why Anthropic’s first technical PM believes ‘evals are the new PRDs,’ why traditional documents aren’t completely dead, and how defining evaluation sets is now the ultimate survival skill for any product builder.

Your AI Agent Will Fail in Production. Here’s How to Stop It Before It Costs You Everything.

Most teams treat AI agent evaluation like a final exam: pass a few test cases, ship, and pray. But agents are non-deterministic, black-box, and cascade errors. The real framework turns evaluation into a closed-loop system where every failure generates regression tests, root-cause labels, and repair tickets. This is the only way to survive production.

The Ad Tech Lie: You’re Not Building a DSP, You’re Building a Glorified Control Panel

Your ad mid-end is not a DSP. It’s a workflow tool that optimizes human efficiency, not capital efficiency. This article reveals the hidden gap between building a unified ad console and building a true traffic buying brain. If you’re a product manager still adding features to a mid-end and calling it a DSP, you’re fooling yourself—and the market.

The Mid-Year Review Is Dead. Here’s What Actually Works.

Most mid-year reviews are post-rationalization rituals that justify past decisions instead of altering future behavior. This article breaks down a five-step framework—from killing single-number delusions to building feedback loops—that turns analysis into a strategic course-correction engine. Stop producing reports that sit in drawers. Start producing decisions that actually change the business.

You’re Wrong About DNA: The I Ching’s 64 Hexagrams Are the Real Blueprint of Life (and Product Architecture)

DNA’s 64 codons and the I Ching’s 64 hexagrams are not a coincidence—they are the same mathematical solution set for 3D spatial constraints. This revelation forces product managers to abandon bloated state machines and adopt a finite set of 64 topological slots that cover all business logic.

The 5-Step Conversion That Turns Project Value Into a Real Product (Most Teams Skip Step 3)

Project features don’t become product capabilities just because you put them in a standard version. The key is a five-step conversion: pin the problem, define responsibility, restructure capabilities, assemble a minimal deliverable loop, and fix the organizational baseline. The hardest step? Deciding what to exclude.

Your AI Agent Fails in Production Because You’re Chasing Smarter Models, Not Better Engineering

Graph Engineering isn’t another AI buzzword—it’s the missing layer that turns chaotic AI agents into reliable products. Instead of chasing smarter models, this article argues that production success depends on boring engineering details: state passing, error recovery, and human handoffs. Using K3 Agent Cluster as a case study, it shows how to design cooperative AI systems that users can trust, and why evaluation must shift from model IQ to system behavior.