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Bring a Product Manager Mindset to Your Next Engineering Job
The age of AI demands strong ideas, data driven methods, and experimentation

We are all Product Engineers now | Seldo.com
Agents are eating the software development lifecycle from the bottom up — code generation already gone, review and ops following fast. What remains is figuring out what people actually want, which can't be automated or scaled. That job is called product engineering, it pays $240k, and nobody's training for it.
I lost my UX career to AI (I'm done)
What Makes for a Good Product Manager?
Learn what qualities to look for in an exceptional product manager

The LLM Curve of Impact on Software Engineers
In this article, I share my personal mental model of how LLMs affect software engineers at different levels, and why this leads to both excitement and scepticism.

Product Design Psychology by Wouter de Bres
Understand the minds you design for and the mind you design with.

6 steps to perfecting an open source product strategy
The future of building great products lies in breaking down the boundaries between business and technical thinking.

Good Product Manager/Bad Product Manager | Andreessen Horowitz
Warning: This document was written 15 years ago and is probably not relevant for today’s product managers. I present it here merely as an example of a useful training document. Good product managers know the market, the product, the product line and the competition extremely well and operate from a strong basis of knowledge and...

Q&A: Can non-technical product managers be successful? - The Intercom Blog
Being a great product manager isn't about past experience. It comes down to understanding customer problems and how teams work, and great communication.

The golden mean of design and engineering - The Intercom Blog
For great products to be built, both design and engineering need to be in balance. If you have a super strong engineering team but a weak or underserved design team, you will struggle.

the new product designer (and why we’re getting it wrong)
This 90-Day Plan Turns Engineers into Remarkable Managers
Twitter's former Director of Engineering shares the plan he uses to transform engineers into successful and happy managers.

Don't Feed the Thought Leaders
In this article, the author shares their experience as an engineering manager and the challenges they faced when trying to reach alignment and prev...

Bao To - Design Engineer & Product Maker
Portfolio of Bao To. Building AI-focused products, design systems, and innovative tools.
What Is Intent Engineering? The Discipline That Replaced Prompt Engineering
Intent engineering is how product teams turn judgment under evidence into specs precise enough for AI agents to execute — and verify. Here's the complete guide: what it is, why it matters, and how to practice it.

Bailey Townsend | Software Developer
Bandaid Engineer and open source software developer.
