Lenny Rachitsky says product managers need to master a rare skill: building products around AI models that are imperfect today while designing for a smarter future. PMs must extract maximum performance from current models, guide users to their strengths, and work around their weaknesses.
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I think the hardest skill is to be the right amount of AGI-pilled. Because I think everyone can see this future where the models are extremely smart and can do almost everything, in which case you actually don't need that complicated a product. You can actually just have a text box again where you tell the model what you want. It's so smart that it can add any tool or add any integration that it needs, get the job done. It knows when it's uncertain, it can ask clarifying questions. Very easy to build the product for the super AGI strong model. I think the hard thing is figuring out for the current model, how do you define what the product should look like a month from now? How do you elicit the maximum capability? How do you guide users to interact with the model strengths and like patch its weaknesses? This skill is pretty rare.