AI Agents and the Future of Work: A Pixar-Inspired Journey
What product managers can learn about AI agents from how Pixar runs a film team.
10 essays · originally on Medium
Every essay I've published on Medium, cross-posted here so the full body of work lives in one place. Read each piece on falkster, or jump straight to the original on Medium.
What product managers can learn about AI agents from how Pixar runs a film team.
Lessons from the British bomber study, applied to PM customer interviews and analytics.
How to tell agents from workflows from cron jobs, and why it matters for what you ship.
Why the current AI shift compounds faster than the Industrial Revolution did.
From feature factories to outcome teams to Product Builders, three eras in one chart.
End-to-end ownership replaces handoff layers, and a new title shows up on org charts.
What changes inside the product when the software does the work, not the user.
When mob and pair programming work, when they don't, and how to read the trade-offs.
The hidden cost of "free" services and what it implies for AI-era product strategy.
Visionary product development, when prototypes beat interviews, and how to know the difference.
The Medium archive is the back-catalog. Newer thinking on AI-era product management, agent fleets, and the Product Builder role ships on falkster, then sometimes flows out to Medium.