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My Claude Code workspace for my product job is a folder with almost no code in it. It holds a context folder with everything about the company: the product, the users, the competitors, how I like to work. One folder per project, with the tasks separated f

A few years ago, at a previous company, I sat through a leadership training I've mostly forgotten. One idea survived. The most senior product leader in the room told us to end every week the same way: write yourself three or four honest lines about how th

Every time I talk about AI with someone, the conversation ends up in the same place. Not on models. Not on prompts. On ethics. Someone says the data centers are draining water tables. Someone says the training data was scraped from people who never agreed

The headcount finally came through. You need a product manager, your recruiting partner needs a job description by Friday, and the process sitting in your ATS (the software your whole recruiting pipeline runs on) is the one you've run since 2023. Résumé s

The kickoff meeting for your first business-team agent has a shape you'll recognize. On one side of the table sits the support team lead. She heard "AI agent" three weeks ago, and she's been quietly updating her CV since. On the other side sits your data

By now the pitch is in every keynote. Salesforce's Agentforce is busy turning its customers into "agentic enterprises." Microsoft ships a program literally named Agent Factory. IBM's watsonx Orchestrate sells a control plane for running thousands of agent

Your engineering team installed Cursor or Claude Code six months ago. Maybe Copilot before that. They use it daily. PRs go out a bit faster, code reviews catch a bit less, everyone agrees it's good. And then last week, someone said the quiet part out loud

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A colleague pinged me on Slack last month. "We don't have an AI playbook." I had heard the same question from four other people that week. Everyone at the company is trying out AI tools right now. They want to know what's allowed and what isn't. And nobod

It's Monday morning. You're scanning your week. Leadership offsite, three product reviews, a check-in with each of your team leads. And the same pattern keeps showing up. In every team across the company, two or three people have AI prompts pinned to thei