(2026-01-21) Wallenius Most Product Management Work Is Translation

Jonas Wallenius: Most product management work is translation. Domain → specs → tickets → meetings → misunderstandings. I find myself increasingly building throwaway prototypes to show what I mean instead. Perfect Perfect match for LLM capabilities. And they're only getting better...

John Cutler: In my mind there's a difference between 1) rote copy-paste, 2) copy-translate, 3) synthesize, contextualize, shape, sense-make etc. #1 and #2 is solvable immediately with AI. #3 invites different AI use cases.

Phil Jones: I wonder why you'd assume that a functional prototype doesn't leave room for misunderstanding?