Product Management Webinar: AI and Productivity
AI Made You Faster. Did It Make You Better?
Thursday, May 28 | 9am PST | 12pm EST | 5pm GMT
Product teams are shipping faster than ever. AI tools have collapsed the cost of building. Prototypes that used to take weeks now take hours.
And yet, there’s a growing problem nobody wants to name: teams are skipping the thinking. The barrier to building has dropped so low that discovery is becoming optional. Instead of understanding problems deeply, teams jump straight to solutions, validate them with the same AI that helped build them, and launch into silence.
Join Janna Bastow, co-founder of ProdPad, in conversation with product coach and author David Pereira, for a discussion about what’s actually happening to product practice in the AI era. This session isn’t about whether AI is good or bad. It’s about what gets lost when speed becomes the default measure of progress.
About this webinar
We’re building 10x faster. We’re building 10x cheaper. And nobody can point to 10x better products as a result.
In this session, Janna Bastow, co-founder of ProdPad and creator of the Now-Next-Later roadmap, sits down with David Pereira, author of Untrapping Product Teams, to explore what’s actually going wrong. The conversation goes beyond tool hype to examine a cultural shift: product teams are losing their tolerance for ambiguity, for sitting in the problem space, for the slow, unglamorous work that separates meaningful products from expensive experiments.
David makes the case that we’re watching the product industry move backward. Before Teresa Torres and the continuous discovery movement, teams operated in a build-first mindset. AI is pulling us back there, because the instant gratification of seeing working code in minutes makes it psychologically harder to spend a week understanding the problem.
Janna and David dig into the patterns: product managers with scattered attention chasing every new AI capability; organizations measuring speed rather than value; teams building apps nobody uses because the cost was low enough that nobody asked hard questions. Together, they explore what product leaders can do to maintain rigorous practice when every incentive is pushing toward output.
In this webinar, you’ll learn:
- Why “10x faster” hasn’t translated into better products, and what that reveals about how teams work
- How AI is recreating the pre-discovery era of build-first, ask-questions-later product development
- The role of delayed gratification in product management and why AI undermines it
- What happens when teams validate ideas using the same AI that generated them
- How FOMO is scattering product managers’ attention across tools instead of focusing on outcomes
- What leaders can protect when the entire organization is optimizing for speed
About David
David Pereira is a product coach, advisor, and author of Untrapping Product Teams, a best-selling book on product management sold in over 70 countries and praised by industry leaders including Marty Cagan. With more than 17 years of experience spanning roles from software engineer to CEO across e-commerce, automotive, and public services, David focuses on simplifying how product teams work and accelerating real value creation. He writes a weekly newsletter read by thousands and regularly keynotes at major conferences, including top-rated talks at Productized Conference and Product Camp Brazil.
Today, David coaches product teams and leaders to focus on outcomes, delay gratification, and do the hard thinking that great products require.
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