Product Management Webinar: AI and Productivity

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