Best Of Product Roundup - November 7, 2026

The best expert-curated product content from the best product thinkers from around the Internet delivered twice a month.

Every two weeks, we dive into the vast ocean of product content online, both free and paid. We sift through it all to bring you the crème de la crème. Our round-up includes carefully curated links and concise excerpts from top content.

This week’s highlights feature:

• Top 4 Long-Form Articles/Podcasts

• Top 3 Tweets

• Top 4 LinkedIn Posts or Short Videos

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Top Long-Form Content

1. Agent Harness: How I Built My Own Claude Code Step by Step

   1. What we liked: The most hands-on explanation of hardnesses we’ve seen, aimed squarely at PMs. You finish with a working agent for your portfolio.

   2. Choice quote: “The model decides. The harness does.”

2. Jobs Every Engineer Should Automate with Agents

   1. What we liked: Clear list to ensure you and your engineering colleagues are considering.

   2. Choice quote: “Some engineering tasks are too repetitive to be worth prompting every time by hand, but too fuzzy for a script.”

3. What an AI-Native Product Team Actually Looks Like at Salesforce

   1. What we liked: We don’t see many large companies explaining how they operationalize AI given the larger need for some amount of bureaucracy and heft at scale.

   2. Choice quote: “Every AI feature you ship is one you’ll keep rebuilding. Budget for evals and observability before you budget for the build.”

4. Notion’s #1 Discovery Channel Is AI Tools: The New Product Distribution Channels Explored

   1. What we liked: Four increasing paths for helping customers find your product that break the mold of yesterday.

   2. Choice quote: “No MCP means i have to use your UI. That’s a dealbreaker now.”

Top Tweets

1. Freemium Just Got Expensive

   1. What we liked: A numbers-driven look at how AI breaks the core assumption behind freemium, from someone who has run product on a massive free tier.

   2. Choice quote: “Every free app on your phone is running the same math Canva was.”

2. Inside the 31-Skill PM OS Every Figma PM Now Uses

   1. What we liked: Real workflows at a top product company, already adopted org-wide. The best idea is aiming AI at the work you’re weakest at, not the work you already enjoy.

   2. Choice quote: “Most PMs aren’t using AI to do the work they’re bad at.”

3. We Built a $150M ARR Business Twice

   1. What we liked: A rare first-hand account of an incumbent disrupting itself before someone else did. Rebuilding the product was the easy part. The hard part was reinventing how a decade-old company builds, sells, and serves customers.

   2. Choice quote: “In the age of AI, you can either disrupt your own company or wait for somebody else to do it.”

Top LinkedIn Posts & Short Videos

1. I open-sourced 43 agent skills for shipping real products.

   1. What we liked: Most skill collections are built for engineers and skip the work PMs care about most. This one starts with users and business value and keeps a human approving every release. It’s a ready-to-use toolkit, not just advice.

   2. Choice quote: “Then agents build, review each other’s work, and ship. You approve the release.”

2. The #1 skill I tell PMs and engineers to develop right now is writing good verification.

   1. What we liked: AI spec’s are incomplete without success definitions and this post shares a thoughtful one.

   2. Choice quote: “How to build is becoming more and more irrelevant. How to know its working is where you need to focus.”

3. When people ask for an agent, they usually want a workflow.

   1. What we liked: A simple test any PM can run before scoping an “agentic” feature, from the CEO of one of the largest automation platforms. It will save a lot of teams from building expensive, unpredictable agents for jobs a basic workflow would handle.

   2. Choice quote: “AI agents are for judgment. Automations are for anything that repeats.”

4. Many founders ask me how I use Grok Bots for marketing.

   1. What we liked: A rare look at agents running a real department rather than a demo. The most valuable use case is the unglamorous one: CRM hygiene nobody wants to do. It also has good operating tips, like having each bot interview you before it starts and letting quiet bots stay quiet.

   2. Choice quote: “Write the brief, not a prompt. The description field is the job spec: what it owns and what it never touches.”

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In case you missed them — Adam’s recent LinkedIn Content

1. This is the best time in the history of software to be building.

2. Incredibly proud of my friend Andrew Skotzko on the publication of his product strategy book today, The Strategy Cycle, after many years of research, writing, thinking, and iteration.