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Latest — 05 Apr 2026

Should You Build AI Agent Capabilities? A Decision Framework for Product Managers

Your CEO asks: "Should we become an agent capability?" You have one quarter, one team, finite resources. Build for AI agents or ship features your customers asked for? The five dimensions that determine which path fits your product.

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UI as API: Extracting Data Using Vision Models

When APIs don't expose what you need, vision models offer a stable alternative to brittle scrapers. A complete walkthrough building Jira automation.

When Not to Fail Fast?

Fail Fast tells you how to move. It doesn't tell you what to check before you start. The cases where those questions go unasked don't just fail fast. They fail wide, quietly, and at someone else's cost.

The Reversible Decision: A Product Manager's Guide to Navigating Uncertainty

Certainty is a recipe for brittleness. In fluid markets, the only real strategy is a shock absorber. From Bezos's Two-Way Doors to the Three-Strike Rule, learn how the Reversible Decision framework lowers the cost of being wrong and creates the space for growth.

Your SaaS Product Is Becoming Liquid: The Bundle Is Unbundling

Two parallel shifts are converging: AI agents that generate interfaces on-demand, and LLMs that compile intent into code. Together, they're ending the era of fixed software. If the UI and the logic layer goes away, what's left of your SaaS product? Time for an uncomfortable exercise.

Why Implementing Single Responsibility Principle is Hard

Software Responsibility is a language problem before it is a design problem. From "House Red" sauce mishaps to half-billion-dollar trading errors, discover how "Language Debt" collapses system navigation and how the "And" Test can save your codebase.

The Street Sweeper Trap: Why Your Solutions Are Just Creating More Work

A city has pristine streets, but 5000 sweepers scrub them daily at a huge cost. This is the "Street Sweeper Trap." We often fall into the trap of solving symptoms with effort instead of architecture. Stop being the janitor of your team; start being its architect. Learn the 4-step framework.

The Strangler Fig Strategy for Breaking Bad Habits

Habits don't live in our values; they live in our wiring. Instead of "deleting" a behavior, learn how to build a low-friction route that strangles legacy traffic one request at a time.

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