Howardism · Vol. 03Plate II · No. 02
Product Management, tagged.
Notes6TagProduct ManagementOldest6 May 2026Newest23 May 2026
Every article tagged product management, newest first.
| Title | Summary | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Dogfooding as Product Discipline | Product sense is built by relentless first-hand use ("ant food"); Mr. Peanut catch; cross-source (Cat Wu vibe-checks, Glasgow founder-led sales) | |
| Evals as Product Spec | Cat Wu's framing of evals as the emerging core PM skill: ten great evals beats a hundred mediocre; encode what done looks like for ambiguous AI features; companion to introspection (hypothesis) and vibe-check (direction) | |
| Zero-Friction Scope Creep | MVP failure mode when agentic coding removes the cost-based forcing function against scope creep; antidote is written scope + evidence-based amendment criteria | |
| AI Native Product Cadence | Cat Wu's 6mo→1mo→1day cadence at Anthropic: research-preview branding, mission-as-tiebreaker, evergreen launch room, lighter PRDs, weekly metrics readouts | |
| Claude Character as Product | Personality as load-bearing product surface; Amanda's role at Anthropic; lunchtime vibe-checks as eval discipline; the harness asset that *doesn't* shrink | |
| Engineer PM Convergence | Generalists across disciplines; product taste as bottleneck skill; Anthropic Claude Code team as case study; "just do things" cultural substrate |