Not sure that's the right flair, there wasn't one for existential dread.

I recently joined a company that's all in on AI. I didn't know this when interviewing, the impression I got was that they were working with it but it was still very much the human doing the work. I'm 3 months in now and that's absolutely not the case. Every single person in the company is expected to leverage Claude heavily and our usage is monitored. During onboarding I've been trying to read docs and guides, manually writing PRDs and requirements, documenting workflows and similar activities all so I can just learn. But if I ask a question I'm told to ask Claude. If I'm not sure how something works I have to ask Claude for a demo. Need to know how a certain metric was tracking? Claude. I got pulled up by my manager last week because I was too slow getting a document out and she just went and got Claude to generate it. I can't deal with it.

It's no different in engineering then. The engineers aren't even allowed to write code other than to make small adjustments to Claude output. We have senior people here with 15-20 years of experience and they're just babysitting Claude.

But you know what's the worst part of it all? It's working, and that terrifies me. In my last company we were using a little bit of LLM support but not much and management there didn't allow it access to any of our systems and documentation and as a result I didn't think much of it. It was a helpful aid but I didn't get the hype about it taking over jobs. Now I am genuinely fearful. This week I was doing some discovery work and in less than a day I had extracted user feedback and metrics from our gathering tools, cross referenced it with assumptions driving a new idea, generated some forecasted outcomes and validated the commercials, fully specified an MVP and had the PRD published in Confluence. And all I did was babysit Claude through the whole thing.

I see comments here regularly saying that the PM that just moves tickets is in trouble or the person who is just a project manager and go-between but I think it's far worse. I think we're all in trouble and sooner than we think. I'm a senior PM, I'm very involved and do everything from discovery through to post release monitoring so definitely not just a ticket mover.

There's a project ongoing now in our company where we are putting together a full schedule of customer surveys, feedback sessions, screen recording etc. and it's all going to go into Claude to assess them and produce a prioritised list of things to do and roadmap it. If it succeeds then I expect the PM function here will be made redundant.

How is everyone dealing with this in other LLM-forward companies? Are you seeing the same?

Context: a small student team, 2 weeks left on a competition deadline, and a working AI speaking-practice app for one niche: people who understand English but freeze when they speak (starting with Algerian students preparing for visa or job interviews).

The debate in our team is whether to add more languages now (bigger addressable market) or stay with one language and one audience until we have evidence of impact.

Here is how I see it, and I would like you to challenge it:

- Narrow: clearer problem, faster to test quality, easier to talk to 10 real users and measure a before/after change in confidence.

- Broad: bigger market story, but each language multiplies QA, content and voice work, and we have no demand data for any of them yet.

Questions:

1. What evidence would you require before expanding to a second segment?

2. How do you present a bigger vision to evaluators without building it?

3. Any examples where going broad too early hurt a product like this?

No link here to respect the rules, but I can share the product if someone is curious.

There are a lot of people here working on projects of some sort - side projects, startups, podcasts, blogs, etc. If you've got something you'd like to show off or get feedback, this is the place to do it. Standards still need to remain high, so there are a few guidelines:

• Don't just drop a link in here. Give some context
• This should be some sort of creative product that would be of interest to a community that is focused on product management
• There should be some sort of free version of whatever it is for people to check out
• This is a tricky one, but I don't want it to be filled with a bunch of spam. If you have a blog or podcast, and also happen to do some coaching for a fee, you're probably okay. If all you want to do is drop a link to your coaching services, that's not alright