Best Of Product Roundup - August 30, 2025
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This week’s highlights feature:
Top 4 Long-Form Articles/Podcasts
Top 4 Tweets
Top 3 LinkedIn Posts or Short Videos
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In case you missed them, here are the posts from Emergent from the past three weeks:
(Video) AI Is Here—So Why Are We Still Hiring Designers and Engineers? (free)
(Video) Why the Future of Product Management Is Deeply Technical (free)
Top Long-Form Content
OpenAI’s Product Lead Reveals the 4-Part Framework for AI Product Strategy
What we liked: A sharp warning for product leaders that defensibility in AI comes from moats like data, trust, and distribution — not just adding AI features.
Choice quote: “AI itself isn’t the moat. Everyone can access GPT-4o, Claude, Llama, Mistral. The barrier to entry is zero. If your strategy is ‘use OpenAI’s API and wrap a UI around it,’ you don’t have a company, you have an expensive demo that can be cloned overnight.”
You think you are AI-first, but you probably aren't
What we liked: This challenges superficial AI adoption and urges product professionals to rethink their systems from the ground up for meaningful transformation.
Choice quote: "You can’t really be ‘AI-first’ or ‘AI-native’ unless you reimagine your business around the architectural properties of AI."
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