AI products do not fail only when they hallucinate. They fail when users lose control, recourse, purpose, or accountability. Product leaders need to design for agency before asking people to trust the system.
Use this ChatGPT prompt to turn scattered ideas and meandering drafts into clear, persuasive writing using Barbara Minto’s Pyramid Principle.
Is your AI strategy real, or just another version of the underpants gnomes’ business plan?
AI product leadership: turning model capability into dependable, trusted products. The work starts after the demo
An AI bug-fixing agent sounds obvious until you price the operating loop: permissions, context, evals, runtime evidence, reviewer burden, and proof that it changed the workflow. The better product may be diagnosis before code generation.
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A Lightweight, Developer-First Way to Test LLM-Powered FunctionsOver the past year, I’ve watched the LLM evaluation ecosystem get more complicated, not less. Teams are now building agent workflows, re
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Sometimes you want a quick, dirty review of a product idea from people who you think are your target market. The standard playbook would have been: recruit 8-12 participants, schedule 45-minute calls
By Alex Thorpe · 6 min
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Hot take: The viral “95% of AI initiatives failed” headline doesn’t mean AI is overhyped or broken. It means most enterprises are still bad at choosing the right use cases, integrating tools into real
By Alex Thorpe · 5 min
Large Language Models (LLMs) have transformed the way we approach artificial intelligence, enabling applications from chatbots to coding assistants. However, training these models effectively while ma
By Alex Thorpe · 25 min
As generative AI lowers the cost of creating drafts, prototypes, and written artifacts, the traditional bottlenecks of product development — execution, coordination, and production time — are losing t
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