Shipping Products When You Don't Know What they Can Do — Ben Stein, Teammates
This talk addresses the challenges of building and shipping products in the rapidly evolving AI agent space, where the capabilities of the underlying LLMs are not fully understood. It proposes a shift in product development from defining specific requirements to focusing on affordances and emergent behaviors, emphasizing the need for new tools and practices to navigate this uncertainty. The core thesis is that product management must transform to embrace discovery and adaptation in a probabilistic world.
World's Fair 2025 20 min