Product management is being rewritten in real time, and AI is doing the editing.

Matt sits down with Jerel Velarde, product manager at Full Scale Ventures, to discuss how AI is reshaping the relationship between PMs and engineering. We dive into what Jerel calls prompt prototyping, how expectations for product velocity have changed, and why the best PMs today are blending design, strategy, and code—all while staying laser-focused on validation over output.

If you're a founder, CTO, or product leader trying to navigate the new frontier of product development, this one's for you.

Is “Product Manager” even the right title anymore?

The new definition of PM: focused on outcomes, not artifacts

How PMs are using AI to validate faster

How to lead product in a startup vs. a scale-up

How to think about MVPs when AI can build anything

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Matt is joined by product and leadership consultant Randy Silver to unpack one of the most frustrating problems in product organizations: everyone knows where they want to go, but no one knows how to actually get there.

Together they explore what causes this breakdown in execution, how companies drift from product strategy to dysfunction, and what strong leadership really looks like at scale.

Why strategy is easy—execution is the problem

Why in-shitification happens

The three organizational dysfunctions Randy sees most

Why autonomy without alignment fails

The real root of dysfunction: unclear product strategy

What leaders can do right now to fix the mess

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Randy Silver’s consulting work https://randysilver.com

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In this episode, Matt is joined by Laura Tacho, CTO at DX — one of the leading voices in developer experience research and tooling. Together, they unpack how AI is really affecting software development teams, why developer experience has a “marketing problem,” and why organizational friction — not technology — is the biggest productivity killer.

If you’ve been wondering whether AI is living up to the hype in engineering teams, this conversation will give you the data, the reality, and the leadership takeaways you can act on today.

Key Discussion Points

[01:21] – What “Developer Experience” Really Means

[03:28] – The Real Sources of Developer Friction

[04:20] – Core Developer Experience Problems (Pre- and Post-AI)

[06:19] – Clarity as a Competitive Advantage

[08:58] – The Mistake of “Shit Shielding”

[08:51] – How AI Raises the Stakes for Product Thinking

[10:33] – The 10x Developer Myth’s Real Origin

[12:03] – Measuring Developer Experience with the DX Index

[14:33] – The Role of Leadership in Removing Friction

Resources & Links

DX – Research and tools for improving developer experience: https://getdx.com/

Developer Experience Index https://getdx.com/dxi-reporting

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