Friday, June 20, 2025

The GenAI Product Management Traps

Feature Factory / Kitchen Sink

GenAI greatly reduces the barrier to directly and quickly build features which makes it very easy to act as a feature factory and build a kitchen sink of a product. One that is not true to a design or have an opinionated view.

  • When implementation is cheap, it's easy to end up in a mess.
  • When you try to make everyone happy, you end up not making anyone happy.


Big Design Upfront / Waterfall Software Development

In an attempt to prevent GenAI from making mistakes there is a focus on front loading effort in the specs and requirements. 

  • We need to iterate and have to discover what we are building
  • Action precedes clarity
  • Account for emergence

All these issues boil down to the question of Are We Building the Right Product?


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