Build to learn vs. build to scale
Most fights about PMs shipping code go away once you name which one you're doing.
PRESS RUN 001
Building is a PM skill now.
Practice it every week.
What to learn, what changed this week, a 90-minute build brief, and people to build with. Start where you are.
Week 01 · L3 · 90 min
PMs lose hours each week sorting raw feedback by hand. A small tool that groups feedback by theme and flags urgent items would cut that to minutes, and you'd trust it enough to use it.
Most fights about PMs shipping code go away once you name which one you're doing.
Not a computer science degree. Five specific skills, and how to practice each one.
Product School's October 7 conference kept landing on one point: AI made building cheap, so judgment, taste, staying close to customers and shipping yourself are the scarce skills. Webflow's CPO described going from "Builder Days" to a weekly "Builder Wednesday" and getting everyone in product, design and engineering shipping to production.
Source: Shannon's notes from the ProductCon SF replay
More product leaders say a working prototype now does the job a requirements doc used to, because people react to something they can click far better than to a page of text.
Source: LogRocket
Some roles now ask PMs to turn a problem into something tangible before design or engineering get involved, naming Claude, Cursor, Lovable and v0. It's anecdotal so far: we found no hiring data that measures it.
Source: FourWeekMBA
Building alone is slower and lonelier. The community is a Slack where PMs who build ask questions, show what they made and get unstuck.
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