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The Art of Product Management in the Age of AI
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Why read this
Sachin Rekhi argues AI may pull product management back from coordination tax toward vision, strategy, design, execution, and human taste.
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The main idea
Sachin Rekhi argues that the product manager’s core job remains vision, strategy, design, and execution, but the role drifted toward coordination as product organizations specialized. AI changes the balance by absorbing or accelerating coordination work, while expanding PM capability in research, synthesis, prototyping, metrics analysis, and communication; however, Rekhi says human taste still matters across all four dimensions.
Some background helpful. Basic familiarity with product management roles and deliverables.
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Coordination became the tax
The argument depends on a distinction between product management as craft and product management as organizational glue. Rekhi says specialization helped product organizations scale, but it also made PMs responsible for keeping many roles aligned. AI matters here not merely as productivity software, but as a way to reduce the coordination load that displaced strategic and customer-facing work.
How the case is made
The case is made through retrospective professional observation and a taxonomy of PM work across four dimensions.
What the original adds
The original likely adds dimension-by-dimension detail, especially how AI supports vision prototypes, market research critique, customer synthesis, AI-moderated interviews, metrics analysis, and execution communication.
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