The Agile Dream Finally Came True | AI Made It Happen

AI is reshaping product development and the future of work for every role in the tech industry. Every product team used to work the same way: slow discovery, designers as bottlenecks, agile scrum ceremonies that meant nothing because the rest of the company was still doing waterfall, and a measurement phase everyone skipped. The result was feature factories everywhere. In this episode, I break down what product development looked like before AI and what it looks like now — based on my own experience and conversations with founders and engineers building AI-native companies.

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TIMESTAMPS

00:00 How Product Development Worked Before AI

01:06 Discovery: Slow Data, Slow Analysis

02:17 Design: Always a Bottleneck

03:43 Delivery: Scrum in a Waterfall Company

06:36 Measurement: The Phase Everyone Skipped

07:00 The Feature Factory Problem

07:43 How AI Changed Discovery

09:06 The New PM: Full-Stack Product Builders

12:00 How AI Changed Design: Three Approaches

15:44 How AI Changed Delivery: Four Levels of AI Collaboration

20:00 Tools: Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, Superpowers, nWave

22:22 How AI Changed Measurement

24:16 AI-Native Startups Are Finally Agile

25:37 Daily Sprints and Same-Day Feedback (Andsend)

26:39 The Convergence of Product and Engineering Roles

28:39 What This Means for Your Career

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RESOURCES MENTIONED

- PostHog — product analytics platform with AI-powered insights

- Andsend — AI-native startup with daily sprints

- Cursor — AI-powered IDE

- Claude Code — AI coding agent by Anthropic

- Codex — AI coding agent by OpenAI

- Superpowers — AI agent framework for software development

- nWave — multi-agent framework for the full product development lifecycle

- Lovable, V0, Bolt, Stitch, Replit — AI prototyping tools

- Figma MCP — integration between AI agents and Figma

- MCP Protocol — Model Context Protocol for tool integration

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CONNECT WITH PRODUCT ENGINEERS

Host: Peppe Silletti

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/peppesilletti/

Website: https://peppesilletti.io

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