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OpenAI’s Head of ChatGPT: We’re entering a new era of AI (again) | Tibo Sottiaux

The grief, loneliness, and burnout sweeping through the tech industry right now | Molly Graham

90 minutes of unfiltered product advice from Snap and Discord’s product chief | Peter Sellis

How we built Grok Bot in a month | Roman Ugarte (SpaceXAI)

Grok Bot represents a shift in AI product design by treating agents as autonomous, cloud-based colleagues rather than simple chat interfaces. Roman Ugarte, product lead at SpaceXAI, explains that the product’s success stems from a "colleague-pilled" philosophy, where bots are granted their own virtual computers to exec...

Why companies are becoming a series of loops | Anish Acharya (a16z)

AI serves as a catalyst for human agency and ambition rather than a threat to job security, debunking the fear of a permanent underclass. Modern company building is evolving into a series of agentic loops, where AI handles execution and productivity, while humans provide intuition at critical decision points. This shif...

AI’s third era: the rise of persistent AI coworkers | Tara Seshan (OpenAI’s product lead)

How to close $100K+ enterprise deals, step by step | Jen Abel

Enterprise sales success relies on a rigorous, 15-step process that prioritizes deep information gathering over traditional pitching. Jen Abel, GM of enterprise sales at State Affairs, outlines a strategy centered on identifying high-level stakeholders, such as general counsel, and utilizing a "pincer model" to engage ...

OpenAI’s Head of Design: This is the best time in history to be a designer | Ian Silber

The playbook for building high talent density teams | Adam Ward, Head of Talent at Cursor

This CPO regrets that product management exists | Tom Verrilli (CPO of Whatnot)

Anthropic’s first technical PM on token maxing, the jagged edge, and living in the future | Dianne Penn

Netflix CPTO on AI and the future of product and tech roles | Elizabeth Stone

How tech workers actually feel about AI in 2026 | Annual AI sentiment survey (Noam Segal)

Adam Mosseri: AI is a tailwind for authenticity

OpenAI Codex lead on the new shape of product work | Andrew Ambrosino

The rise of AI has fundamentally inverted the traditional product development process by making implementation nearly costless. Instead of relying on extensive research and documentation to de-risk projects, teams now prioritize rapid prototyping and curation. In this new landscape, "taste"—the ability to discern which...

Building the most AI-pilled engineering team in the world | Fiona Fung (Manager of the Claude Code and Cowork Teams)

The hidden pattern behind successful products | Mark Pincus (founder of Zynga)

Father of the iPod and iPhone on building taste, judgment, and creativity in the AI era | Tony Fadell

Building truly innovative products requires starting from user pain and leveraging new technologies to redefine a space, rather than simply iterating on existing solutions. Successful product development demands a "benevolent dictatorship" approach where a singular leader makes opinion-based decisions, as data alone of...

A rational conversation on where AI is actually going | Benedict Evans

The AI paradox: More automation, more humans, more work | Dan Shipper