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My Product Management Toolkit (69): AI guardrails

What are AI guardrails? Guardrails identify and remove inappropriate or inaccurate output generated by LLMs. They can also pick up on risky prompts to reduce the risk of leaking sensitive information, sharing personally identifiable information and providing non-compliant advice. Guardrails shape the LLM’s behaviour by setting specific rules that apply to any data input into…
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From Vibe Coder to Product Builder

The Vibe Coding spectrum The lines between product management and software engineering are becoming increasingly blurred. As product managers, we can now show rather than tell; build rather than write. There’s a spectrum here, which is nicely captured by product management consultant and trainer Dan Olsen: A lot of product managers stop at Bolt or…
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How real estate marketplaces are using AI

Real estate marketplaces have a clear commercial incentive to use AI well: the better they match buyers, renters and sellers, the more transactions they facilitate. I started by looking at Property Finder — a marketplace for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, broadly comparable to Rightmove in the UK or Zillow in the…
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Sora no more

OpenAI’s decision this week to shut down Sora, its video generation app, says less about video generation and more about where the real AI battle is being fought right now. Launched with great fanfare in 2024, Sora initially shot to the top of the App Store. But downloads fell sharply — dropping nearly 75% from…
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Eventual / Daft (Product Review)

My summary of Eventual before using it — Eventual is a multimodal data processing platform designed to power AI-based products and features. How does Eventual explain itself in the first minute? “Revolutionising the way you work with data” is the main strapline on Eventual’s website, and the short explainer video wastes no time making the case.…
