Get Started with AI today with these prompts

Is AI going to take your job?

The other day, I spoke to a mother who’s returning to work after six months of maternity leave.

Her voice was confident, yet she still had many thoughts and questions. She said, “I’ve been gone for what feels like a lifetime. I know I’m a good product manager, but now it feels like the world has moved so fast, and I am so behind. Everyone’s talking about AI. And I don’t know where to start.”

If you’re feeling this too, like you blinked and somehow ended up behind.., then today’s newsletter is for you.

In the end, I have shared 3 prompts that help me use AI in the right way.

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Today’s Deep Dive

The biggest misconception that all the AI noise has built is “taking away your job.”

Yes, there is no denying that AI is impacting jobs already. Some of the workflows will become so redundant that 5 years from today, you will wonder how you even lived without AI handling those tasks. How was it so manual?

This is the same as how folks lived without electricity, airplanes, or the internet, for that matter. While some of us are way too young to know what it was like like to live without electricity, we do know what life was before WhatsApp, before we could video call our families right at our fingertips and with such ease.

Artificial Intelligence is just like that. Slowly getting integrating in our lives and technology is improving daily.

The fundamentals of product management haven’t changed and will not change for the foreseeable future. How we operate as product leaders is already changing

Good product thinking is still about:

• Understanding the user deeply - this is a fundamental for any business, has been around since the very beginning of time of business building.

• Prioritizing ruthlessly - with so much information, bias of speed and action, and tools available, this becomes a critical skill.

• Communicating clearly - this is in demand today and will stay so for the next 100 years, just that level of expectation from PMs will change)

• Making hard decisions with limited data - A critical skill for PMs working in advanced technologies)

AI hasn’t replaced any of that. What it has changed is how you scale your work.

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AI Is Not Your Replacement. It’s Your Thinking Buddy.

There’s a common, creeping fear I hear from product managers:

“If I can ask ChatGPT to write a PRD… what’s the point of me?”

AI is not here to do your job. It can never fully do a human’s job. (not at least in a way humans can do).

Here are my favourite use cases for AI as a product leader and for personal use
AI is amazing at

• Brainstorming buddy - Any time I am second-guessing my work, I ask ChatGPT to brainstorm with me.

• Pick an idea and pressure test it - ask Chagpt to poke holes in my thinking, “What am I missing? “ prompts

• Write better - I use it extensively to remove hedging language.

• My favourite is to simulate a tough conversation - my recent favourite that I have been using to anticipate questions from the other party. Helps me prepare my pitch accordingly.

  Last weekend, I taught a LIVE masterclass on salary negotiation and shared a prompt to simulate a conversation with a recruiter for salary negotiation, and here is what students said.

  

The human mind holds context and taste.

• The context you hold that has your deep expertise

• The strategic nuance you bring to the table that AI has no knowledge of

• The cross-functional empathy you’ve built, where AI has no heart

• The instinct you’ve honed through hard trade-offs is your edge.

What it can do is reduce the cognitive overhead.
It helps you move faster, ask smarter questions, and pressure-test your ideas before you walk into the room.

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If you want to integrate AI in your work-life, Scale Yourself First, Then Scale Your Team

You need to learn how to scale you, your process, your decision-making, the redundant work, understand the high-stakes to low-stakes tasks, what you can automate vs. where human input is a must.

Here’s the simple progression I shared with the mother I spoke to recently.

1. Start with yourself:
   Use AI as your second brain. Test your product ideas. Clarify your thinking. Start by identifying your most time-consuming, repetitive tasks. Maybe it's competitive analysis, writing user story templates, or creating first drafts of project briefs. Use AI to accelerate these, giving you more time for the strategic thinking that only you can do.

2. Then bring it to your team:
   Use AI to improve alignment, reduce friction, and accelerate collaboration. Depending on the AI acceptance appetite of your company/team. Share your prompts of low-stakes use cases and then move to advanced.

Here are 3 prompts that have changed the way I operate in product.

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