
Afraid of the Wrong Thing
AI isn't Skynet (yet). It's a powerful tool, and the real danger is who's using it. Why the way we talk about AI has us afraid of the wrong thing.
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AI isn't Skynet (yet). It's a powerful tool, and the real danger is who's using it. Why the way we talk about AI has us afraid of the wrong thing.

I went looking for how to do evals better and found an argument about whether they work at all. What I've read, what I've heard, and why the most important discipline in AI product management has quietly turned into a performance.

The EU AI Act is not a future concern. It is actively reshaping products today. But treating compliance as a burden misses the point. The best Product Managers will treat it the same way they treat any product constraint: as a forcing function for better decisions.

Everyone agrees AI is transforming product management. Nobody agrees on which skills survive. The debate over strategy, taste, and the 'editing function' reveals a profession in the middle of an identity crisis.

Agile won the war on delivery, but we are losing the peace on value. It is time for a new set of values that prioritises outcomes over outputs and learning over logistics.