Enable distributed AI adoption: let teams pick tools, run many small experiments, and share what works—govern with light guardrails instead of top‑down mandates.
Embrace disposable software, value data, and ideate AI strategy within your team
Leverage 'proto personas' for enriched product research: glean valuable insights from AI-generated synthetic user emulations
Elevate product discovery with AI: leverage platforms like Reddit for user feedback and accelerate market insight collection through automation
Leverage quality data and domain knowledge for robust and context-aware AI integration
Leverage AI for efficiency: adopt well-labeled data, implement foundational knowledge, and automate documentation for maximum productivity
Leverage AI to democratize knowledge, negotiate industry gatekeeping, and fast-track innovation in regulated sectors
Where to place your bets: prioritize applied AI that leverages your existing distribution and data, and partner on foundation models instead of competing to build them.
Skip rigid pilots: embed AI inside existing workflows people already use, and adoption will follow the value.
Build less, enable more: standardize on best‑in‑class external AI tools, then add thin, workflow‑specific integrations where they create clear leverage.
Blend remote scale with in‑person speed: colocate small AI squads inside a remote org to accelerate iteration without losing async strengths.
Win with open ecosystems: infuse AI into extensible architectures like WordPress to compound value with existing reach.
Adopt bottom‑up tooling: let teams pick AI tools, then spread proven stacks through organic sharing and light governance.
Run on-sync cycles: prototype in the meeting, observe impact, and add LLM ops practices to keep speed from eroding product quality.
Win with applied AI: amplify existing distribution and domain strengths while partnering on foundation models.
Fix the three‑speed mismatch: pair 10× development with faster discovery and marketing, update planning cadence, and retire legacy Agile rituals that assume equal speeds.
Recalculate the economics: when two people can do the work of ten, rethink team structures, cost models, and where human judgment adds the most value.
Stop slicing—solve the whole job: use AI to deliver complete workflows, not narrow features, and raise the ambition bar.
Make meetings productive: prototype live with stakeholders, validate assumptions in hours, and capture decisions immediately.
Delegate entire workflows to silicon: deliver outcomes, not dashboards, by automating end‑to‑end jobs.
Operate without phases: discover and build in parallel, shorten decision cycles, and validate ideas live as teams prototype while they learn.
Explore new categories: build lightweight, focused apps that fill gaps traditional software never served.
Front‑load precision: write detailed specs and context early so AI builds the right thing fast and avoids downstream rework.
Ship ‘clip software’: build lightweight, niche apps that were previously uneconomic, and capture new demand unlocked by AI.
Speed requires specification: invest in crisp requirements so AI can implement in hours, not months.
Launch faster with an AI co‑founder: spin up brand, site, and ops in weeks while reserving human effort for client outcomes.
Redesign your org for AI: inventory tasks, automate what’s ready, and regroup the remaining human work into new roles built around judgment and orchestration.
Start and scale with AI as a true team member: launch services fast, let models handle production work, and reserve human effort for strategy, taste, and client impact.
Think in layers, not fads: stack generative, agentic, and spatial AI capabilities to compound value over time.
Make AI an all‑hands change: build organization‑wide literacy, embed AI into owned workflows, and avoid treating it as an IT rollout.
Merge people and platform thinking: align HR and IT to hire, onboard, and manage hybrid human‑digital teams.
Adopt a 2–3 year horizon: plan architectures and bets that survive rapid AI change, and avoid over‑committing beyond that window.
Add spatial understanding: design systems that reason about objects, people, and places—not just text.
Why problem framing beats code: shift from writing functions to expressing clear intent, decomposing problems, and orchestrating solutions that AI can implement.
Design for near‑zero marginal intelligence: when digital workers cost electrons, automate end‑to‑end tasks and rethink pricing models.
Prepare for hybrid intelligence: align HR and IT to onboard digital workers, redefine roles, and orchestrate humans plus AI as one team.
Compete when intelligence is cheap: automate entire functions, revisit unit economics, and reinvest savings into differentiation.
Practice AI judgment: pick problems where AI fits, and prefer simpler methods when they work better.
Classify by meaning, not keywords: apply LLMs to text‑heavy cases where context, not terms, drives the right categorization.
How to apply the 80/90 rule: target error‑tolerant problems, define “good‑enough” accuracy, and ship 80% capability at ~90% lower cost without over‑engineering edge cases.
Leverage analog foundations: use manual craft to judge quality, guide AI output, and know what should not be automated.
Collapse review cycles: let PMs prove feasibility with V0 in minutes, then iterate with engineering on what’s production‑ready.
Move beyond forms: build conversational interfaces that understand messy input and adapt flows to each user.
Detailed specs accelerate delivery: invest more up front so AI halves build time and avoids costly misalignment.
Keep humans in the room: use AI for synthesis and logistics, but rely on facilitators for deep questions and emotional insight.
Where AI helps and where it doesn’t in design: use models for ideation and variations, but rely on human taste for final decisions when quality bars are high.
Reinvest saved time: shift AI efficiencies into deeper collaboration, richer workshops, and more meaningful client touchpoints.
Validate your best guesses: use AI simulation to predict customer reactions with ~80% accuracy before you commit to a direction.
Build better judgment: train with analog methods (notes, paper prototypes) so you can evaluate and steer AI output with a sharper critical eye.
Screen participants fairly and fast: let AI shortlist by criteria to reduce bias, then apply expert judgment on the final selection.
Do research without hallucinations: use Gemini Notebook LM to constrain sources, cite correctly, and keep client insights trustworthy.
How to compress weeks of whiteboarding into hours: use AI-powered “vibe coding” to build clickable prototypes fast, align stakeholders early, and reduce costly iteration.
Rebuild around models: treat LLMs as programmable building blocks and redesign systems for probabilistic behavior.
Integrate AI in code review: use AI for meticulous checks, automate changelogs, and separate tasks among coding agents
Invest in quality data and harness AI power: dive deeper on data understanding, optimize systems for recall, and leverage AI for intelligence extraction
Combine hardware-software approaches, integrate AI for enhancing user experiences, and develop discerning buying decisions in AI-assisted software development.
Embrace AI discerningly: Foster deep-rooted open-source movement and ensure thorough understanding of AI-built systems
Leverage AI in wearable tech for real-world understanding and privacy, not graphic simulations
Optimize design to code translation: adopt AI-tools and ensure well-structured, clear design files for enhanced efficiency
Leverage AI-first development: Build bespoke, efficient internal tools faster and maintain them with evolving documentation and shared best practices
Integrate 'human-in-the-loop' planning in AI-assisted software development for quality control and code comprehension
Navigate the AI 'Velocity Paradox': balance rapid feature development with system complexity management
Reimagine software development: integrate AI as team members, prioritize judgment over skills, and champion exploration over convention
Embrace context engineering: manage chaotic AI systems through contextual cues to drive predictable outcomes
Harness AI to supercharge your workflow: Speed up testing, encourage language learning, and evolve team structures for efficiency.
Master control over AI chaos: Delegate coding to AI, focus on system design, and establish deterministic checks for reliability and efficiency
Harness context engineering: control AI model's context for cleaner coding and progressive task disclosure for efficiency gains.
Operationalize prompts: version them, test for drift, and treat changes like code releases.
Move AI from edge to core: make models the primary logic layer, with code orchestrating prompts, tools, and safeguards.
Automate outcomes, not steps: hand full jobs to AI where possible so products deliver finished work rather than dashboards.
Adopt the new stack: UserDoc for requirements → V0 for prototypes → export code → Cursor/Windsurf to finish the last 20%.
Expose the hidden work: orchestrate thousands of AI calls behind simple UX, with monitoring to ensure reliability at scale.
Expect ~40% AI‑written code in production: keep human ownership of architecture, enforce reviews and tests, and reserve complex logic for engineers.
Combine buy and build: wrap third‑party models with your logic and UX, and write code only where it compounds advantage.
Design digital employees: specify goals, permissions, tools, and escalation rules instead of database tables and forms.
Use AI gains to out‑ship competitors: keep teams intact, raise throughput goals, and funnel the 10× lift into more experiments, features, and customer value.
Build from human intent: move beyond code to directing digital employees, defining roles, guardrails, and desired outcomes.
Unlock text at scale: mine RFPs, contracts, and news to build capabilities that numbers‑only analytics miss.
Architect for AI attention limits: know when to switch tools as complexity grows, and add evals plus regression checks to catch breakage.
Develop robust multi-layered security: Treat AI outputs as potential threats and implement comprehensive system protections
Adopt robust security guardrails for AI-tools to combat cybersecurity threats in software development workflows
How to operate in a non‑deterministic world: move from unit-level certainty to system-level observability, evals, and human-in-the-loop checks when orchestrating natural‑language driven components.
Design for non‑determinism: add guardrails, fallbacks, and manual overrides where probabilistic AI cannot be fully trusted.
Measure what matters for AI: track time‑to‑value, output volume, and ‘tweak time’ to ensure automation actually saves effort.
Harden AI for production: detect out‑of‑distribution inputs, add human‑in‑the‑loop, and monitor outcomes continuously.
Choose the right tool: don’t force LLMs on math; use simpler analytic methods where numbers beat language models.
Use your remote muscle: document decisions, share openly, and plug AI into strong written‑culture workflows.
Control AI‑created code quality: require reviews and tests, refactor messy AI output, and set clear thresholds before shipping.
Plan for the ‘repair’ tier: when vibe coding hits its limits, transition to specialists who stabilize, refactor, and productionize.
Generate living docs from code: reverse‑engineer requirements and flows so teams can ship changes with confidence.
Turn legacy into leverage: use AI to explain undocumented code, scope migrations, and reduce the cost of tackling technical debt.