“We’re shipping faster, but I trust our decisions less.”

That’s what one PM told me after their team rolled out AI across the product workflow.

Their backlog was clearing. Tickets were closing. AI-generated ideas filled the roadmap. But no one was asking whether they should be building any of it. They were no longer short on speed, but they were starving for clarity.

That tension points to one of the most underappreciated effects of AI in product teams today. AI expands your inputs faster than your ability to interpret them. It removes much of the effort from analysis, but also removes the friction that once forced product teams to think. What used to take a few days of discussion, alignment, or exploration now becomes an automated summary or instant pattern match.

In the past, discovery was bottlenecked by bandwidth. Now, it is bottlenecked by discernment.

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This shift is just one of three structural changes I explore in the first deep-dive of Product + AI, a new strategic series within the Roadmap to Mastery Collection on The Product Way.

In the full article this week, you’ll find:

• A case study of how one VP used AI to align three product teams and regain four to six weeks of execution time
• Three structural shifts redefining how AI is changing product insight, exploration, and planning
• System-level signals to assess whether your team is scaling judgment or skipping it
• A practical lens for PMs and CPOs to evaluate when AI is improving clarity and when it’s creating false confidence

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About “Product+AI“

This article is part of Product + AI, a new series for product people who want to cut through the hype and apply AI effectively in their product management practice. Each deep-dive article delivers practical advice, actionable frameworks, and product strategies you can use immediately.

The series explores where AI creates leverage, where it distracts, and how to lead with sharper judgment across every level of product work — from Associate PM to CPO.

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