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The Hidden Costs of Vibe Coding: 500K+ lines, Four Apps, and What Broke?
Everyone's showing you the weekend demo — "I built an app in one prompt, watch." Over the last several months I've vibe-coded 500K+ lines across four apps and two open-source libraries and several private libraries. The marketing narrative and the operational reality are very different things, and nobody is talking about the second one.
This session is a field report on what actually breaks at scale — and what I had to build around each problem to keep shipping.
What we'll cover together:
Context management. What it looks like at 50K lines vs. 500K with multiple projects, and when you…
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We Shipped Agentic AI in a Regulated Enterprise. The Hard Part Wasn't the AI
January 2025, Agentic AI was in its infancy — Gartner put significant enterprise investment at 19%, Manus hadn't shipped yet, and there was no playbook for Agentic AI. We started building one for a regulated government entity anyway.
Six months later, we had our 1st agentic app in production. Most don't get there. Only 15–20% of enterprises move agents past pilot, and Gartner expects 40%+ of agentic projects to be canceled by 2027.
This talk is about what was actually hard. Not the model. Not the agents. The users. The productization. The gap between a demo that dazzles and a…
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Product Discovery Doesn't Just Work on Software
At ProductCamp 2024, I announced my new business (idea) and spent the day talking to PMs about it 1-on-1. The enthusiasm was overwhelming. All the highly experienced product managers I talked to thought it was an excellent idea. It turns out we were all wrong. Eighteen months later, I'd completely changed what I was building, because I actually did the research. This is a case study in applying software product validation principles to a non-software product: what I tested, what failed, what surprised me, and how the business I launched looks nothing like the one I was pitching in those…
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Revenue Before Raise
Valuable insights for first-time and early-stage startup founders focusing on "revenue-before-capital-raise". Practical tips for creating value before borrowing.
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Breaking Into Product: Lessons from 50 Real Transitions into Product Management
When you look closely at how people actually transition into a PM role, the paths vary widely: Associate PM programs, MBAs, internal transfers, or moving from adjacent roles like engineering, project management, or customer success.
After speaking with 50 people who moved into product, one thing stood out: while their backgrounds were different, the behaviours that helped them break in were consistent.
This session explores those patterns:
- Where people came from before becoming PMs
- Whether product was their first role or a transition later in their career
- What kinds of companies enabled their first PM opportunity
- How long it typically…
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Story first: Why product strategy needs a destination before a problem
Most product teams start with a problem statement. But a problem statement tells little about the bigger picture—
This session introduces a different starting point: the story outcome — a precise description of what must be true about a person's situation after your product works, that isn't true now. The session invites us to anchor strategy to a wider lens on the product use and user.
To make this concrete, we'll work through a hypothetical case study in AI-assisted radiology. We explore how a story outcome lens can inspire a different kind of user inquiry — including something problem statements…
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Get the Interview. Ace the Interview. A Live AI Workshop for PMs.
The PM job market is rough. Most candidates aren't failing at interviews — they're not getting them. And when they do, there's no feedback when it doesn't go well.
This hands-on workshop covers the full cycle using a free, open-source AI tool demoed live on screen: decoding what a company actually wants, getting past ATS screening, preparing for that specific company's interview format, and running drills with real scored feedback.
The more interactive, the better. Submit your resume and a target job description before May 9 and I'll work through it live in the session. The room shapes the demo.…2 votes -
Nobody Claps When the Payment Goes Through.
Every PM wants to ship something people love. But some products aren't built to be loved — they're built to disappear.
Payments. Compliance. Tax infrastructure. ERP integrations. These are the products that run quietly in the background until they don't — and when they break, it's not a bad review or a drop in DAU. It's a frozen checkout, a regulatory audit, or a finance director on the phone at 3am.
This talk is for PMs who build in the invisible lanes — or who want to understand what it actually takes to get there.
Through real war stories from…2 votes
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