Thoughts on GenAI, enterprise transformation, product management, and the intersection of technology and business.
The consulting pyramid that minted partners for decades is collapsing. McKinsey now has 20,000 AI agents working alongside 40,000 humans. This isn't disruption from the outside. It's transformation from within.
Middle managers existed to translate strategy into execution and surface blockers upward. AI agents are doing both. This isn't about eliminating middle management. It's about radically redefining it.
The Product Owner role was designed for a world where human teams executed work. Now your 'team' includes AI agents. This changes what it means to own a product.
The agile methodologies we've spent decades perfecting were designed for a world where implementation was the bottleneck. AI just collapsed that assumption. Here's what comes next.
Build vs. buy was already complex. Now there's a third option: configure agents to do what you used to build or buy. This changes the economics of capability sourcing in ways most enterprises haven't processed yet.