How AI is changing product management (and what to ask your team about it)

Next week I'm running a session with our product and engineering leadership on how AI is changing the product management role. To prepare, I read the people who've shaped how product managers think about the job (Marty Cagan, Melissa Perri, Teresa Torres, Rich Mironov, John Cutler, the Reforge team), alongside product leaders doing the work right now at Anthropic, OpenAI, Netflix, Instagram, and Whatnot. Then I went through all available 2025-2026 survey and study data. Most of what I found applies well beyond our team, so I'm sharing the condensed version here, along with the questions we'll be discussing in case they're useful for yours. Where the sources agree Building got cheap. Deciding got expensive. Mike Krieger, Anthropic's chief product officer, says 90-95% of the Claude Code product's own code is now written by Claude Code, and that their bottleneck moved to deciding what to build. (Self-reported, but the rest of the sources point the same direction.) The parts of the job…