Claire D.

Attended a webinar on "Cursor for Product Managers" by Jacob Witt, Emily Gavrilenko, and Zoë Barnswell, and it reinforced something I’ve been using the AI tools for. PMs aren’t just writing docs anymore - they’re increasingly shipping. Here’s how 𝗣𝗠𝘀 𝗮𝘁 Cursor are using it in practice: • Connecting Cursor to different MCPs like Databricks to run SQL queries and check metrics such as 𝗪𝗔𝗨𝘀 across segments and geographies • Rapid prototyping using pre-loaded HTML templates • Making lightweight changes themselves - website updates, help docs, copy tweaks (without touching core logic) • Running small experiments and A/B tests independently They spoke about Cursor's IDE-first approach, with Composer, Auto mode, cloud agents, and intelligent model switching with a user-friendly UI, making this especially accessible for PMs, far beyond CLI-only setups. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝘁𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗮𝘄𝗮𝘆: Tools like Cursor aren’t about turning PMs into engineers. They’re about reducing friction, upleveling manual work, and helping PMs operate with higher leverage. #ProductManagement #AIForPMs #Cursor #ProductTools #BuildingInPublic

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First iteration of ProductAlign is live and in the wild. Just shipped a new feature that lets you generate synthetic personas in seconds but Product align is more than that. I built it to help product managers align across stakeholders faster and build better products. New feature: Synthetic Personas. In the demo below, I show how you can instantly generate personas to ground your product discussions in real user context. Link in the comments if you want to try it out. Access currently limited to 12 tokens/day while I gather feedback. Let me know your thoughts! #productmanagement #pms

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Experimentation isn’t the hard part. Knowing which decisions are reversible—and which aren’t—is. In the latest episode of Pendo.io’s Hard Calls podcast, Trisha Price and Jeff Lash break down how thinking in one-way vs. two-way doors helps product teams move faster without creating long-term drag. Give it a listen! #ProductLeadership #ProductManagement #DigitalAdoption #HardCalls

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Excited to share a recent conversation I had with Ankit Jain, a community leader in the Developer Experience space and Co-founder/CEO of Aviator, where we dug into what it's like being a PM in the DevEx space. We covered some key themes: 🛠️ Why internal developers deserve the same care and empathy as external customers 🧠 How core product principles—like understanding the problem deeply—still drive success, even in highly technical spaces 📊 What meaningful impact looks like in DevEx If you're curious about building for builders or just want to hear how DevEx works behind the scenes at scale, give it a listen: 🎧 https://lnkd.in/gUpm4-Np #DevEx #ProductManagement #DeveloperExperience #podcast

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Do we really need Product Managers anymore? It’s the question doing the rounds right now and one we've ruminated on at Propel. If you can build quickly and iterate continuously, does spending time in the problem space doing discovery, writing user stories, and slicing releases just slow things down unnecessarily? We experimented with a no-PM model and this is what we found: 1. Core product disciplines matter even more in the AI era. 2. Without product leadership, fast output doesn’t always equal meaningful outcomes. 3. AI fluency is a new essential skill for PMs. Here's what happened: https://lnkd.in/g54E7RiV Acknowledging my bias, I asked a tech lead for their thoughts and will share that next. #productmanagement #ai Propel Ventures

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Sure, let those organizations eliminate Product Ops - makes for a lot less competition over time :) Smart play: Product Ops becomes the context management layer for the product org: standardizing data, decisions, and workflows so PMs get cleaner signals

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