AI Codes Fast, Product Management Hits Snooze Button
Andrew Ng, former Google Brain hotshot turned Stanford prof, spills the tea: AI has unanimously crushed the slowpoke coder, making product management the startup bottleneck. Prototypes now pop out in a day, but waiting a week for user feedback is 'really painful.' Teams like Ngâs are 'increasingly relying on gut' because traditional feedback loops move at glacial, lettuce-paced speeds. And here we thought product managers were mini-CEOsâturns out they might just be the startup world's ultimate speed bump, despite Microsoft's Kevin Scott praising their role for AI feedback loops. Ah, progress!
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(1 of 3)Congrats product managers, youâre the new traffic jam on the AI startup highway. Code flies in 24 hours, but waiting a week for feedback? Thatâs not innovation, thatâs a snail parade with spreadsheet badges.
When AI can build a weekend bod, but your product managerâs on a coffee break, you know the startup cockroach has found its bottleneck.
AI slaps together code faster than you can scroll TikTok, but product management? Itâs still buffering like dial-up on dial-up.
Source: Businessinsider | Published: 8/22/2025 | Author: Lee Chong Ming
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