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AI for Product Managers

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Sure there is, AI Product Managers are the people who decide that you WILL see an AI summary at the top of Google Search results and you WILL like it and you WILL NOT turn it off under any circumstances.

Well as a counterpoint I have found that Google's own Gemini has been quite helpful in letting me de-clutter and turn off various nasty more-or-less AI-connected additions in Google's UI. For example it made short order of providing me with the much needed Chrome plugin get_rid_of_TikTok_wanabee_shorts on Youtube.com:

Story points for our next sprint, team:

1. The user will see an AI summary.

2. The user will not turn it off.

3. The user will Like It.

Analytics show that 100% of users keep seeing the thing we put at the top of every page, so they must like seeing it, there's no other explanation. Job well done team!

PSA: If you configure your default search engine to be "https:/ /www.google.com/search?udm=14&q=" (space added to disable link detection) you can get rid of the AI.

It also turns off some nice things like the calculator, but the absence of AI garbage is worth it

This is a very bad article, probably to attract traffic to their PM course. For me is very simple, there are AI Product Managers. But those are not PMS that use AI tools but rather those that manage AI products. And there is a difference between Software 1.0 and Software 2.0 (AI or ML model based) products. These products are not managed as engineering but science. These products are managed with experiments. These products are non-deterministic. These products have virtually infinite inputs and outputs. These products do not address one problem but many at the same time. So, if you ask me of course there is a thing such as AI Product Manager but not what the author, and many other PMs, think.

Product Managers really should have a solid grasp of the fundamentals of AI (gen and non-gen) as this will enable them to understand if it can add value to the software products they are envisaging. In the end it's another tool, be it a powerful one that comes with very specific challenges on UX side but it doesn't require a carve out of the PM role.

PMs should probably know about RAG, tool use.

Not sure why this is front page, it's way too basic for the HN crowd.

“how to center a div” has been at the top of HN more times than most can count :)

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