Product Strategy
The Batch Size Problem: Why Your Team’s Speed vs. Quality Debate Is Asking the Wrong Question
Most teams that think they have a speed problem actually have a batch size problem. The framing of speed vs. quality is...
David LiuBlog
Latest articles on AI-native product development, shipping faster, and building better products.
David Liu
AI and Automation
The Spec That Saved Six Weeks: How Writing It Down Before You Build Changes Everything
Teams that write detailed specs before writing code don’t slow down — they find out they were about to build the w...
James Mitchell
Engineering
The Prompt Engineering Fallacy: Why Optimizing Your Prompts Won’t Save Your AI Product
Most teams building AI products are optimizing the wrong thing. Better prompts matter — but they can’t fix distrib...
James Mitchell
AI and Automation
The Product Decision Gap: Why What You Decide and What Gets Built Are Never the Same Thing
There is a moment in every sprint that no one talks about openly. The PM wrote a ticket. The engineer read it. And somew...
James Mitchell
Product Strategy
AI Code Review Is Not a Reviewer: How to Actually Deploy It
Most teams have tried AI code review and gotten noise. The ones getting real value aren’t using it as a reviewer —...
Maya Chen
Product Strategy
Context Is Expensive: The Hidden Cost Your Engineering Org Keeps Paying
Your engineering team is context-switching 12+ times a day. Here is what that actually costs — structurally, cognitively...
James Mitchell
AI and Automation
The Velocity Trap: Why Shipping Fast is Quietly Making Your Team Slower
Every team celebrates sprint velocity. But there’s a version of fast shipping that compounds interest against you...
James Mitchell
AI and Automation
Your Incidents Are Product Research. You’re Just Not Reading Them.
Incidents are one of the richest sources of product intelligence most teams are systematically ignoring. Here’s wh...
James Mitchell
AI and Automation
The Spec Is a Lie: Why Modern Product Teams Are Moving to Living Systems
Most product specs are wrong before the first sprint ends. The best teams aren’t writing better specs — they’...
James MitchellW
Uncategorized
We Rebuilt Our Feature Flag System From Scratch. It Was Worth Every Hour.
Six months ago, our feature flag system was a mess—boolean toggles in env vars, a shared Google Sheet, and a Slack chann...
David Liu
Product Strategy
We Deleted Our Design Handoff Process. Here’s What Replaced It.
Design handoffs waste 40% of engineering sprint capacity. We replaced ours with structured context documents and AI-assi...
James Mitchell
Engineering
Why Your Team Uses AI Tools They Don’t Trust (And What to Do About It)
A new study shows AI adoption is rising while user trust is falling. Here’s why the trust gap matters more than th...
Sarah Williams