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Lovinsky: Product teams will stop writing specs for humans within three years
“Write specs for humans. I hope most people aren't writing specs for humans any longer.”
Noam Lovinsky Jan 16, 2026 ▶ 13:01 20Product: Is the Design Phase Dead in a World of AI | Has Claude Code Crushed Anthropic Already | What Roles of a PM Are Less and More Important with AI | How the Best Product Leaders Tell Stories with Noam Lovinsky, CPO @ Superhuman
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Lovinsky: Democratized software creation is an enduring shift, not hype
“I think the idea that everyone can build is not a moment in time hype cycle.”
Noam Lovinsky Jan 16, 2026 ▶ 17:22 20Product: Is the Design Phase Dead in a World of AI | Has Claude Code Crushed Anthropic Already | What Roles of a PM Are Less and More Important with AI | How the Best Product Leaders Tell Stories with Noam Lovinsky, CPO @ Superhuman
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Lovinsky: AI will generate 90% of Superhuman's code within 24 months
“In 24 months, I hope it's like 90%.”
Noam Lovinsky Jan 16, 2026 ▶ 20:00 20Product: Is the Design Phase Dead in a World of AI | Has Claude Code Crushed Anthropic Already | What Roles of a PM Are Less and More Important with AI | How the Best Product Leaders Tell Stories with Noam Lovinsky, CPO @ Superhuman
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Lovinsky: AI models will achieve continuous learning and self-improvement by 2026
“I think we're going to crack the, like, continuous learning, self-improving. These things, you know, can just be set on a task and given the context and build the memory and are just going to get better on their own for, you know, the majority of tasks that yo…”
Noam Lovinsky Jan 16, 2026 ▶ 36:19 20Product: Is the Design Phase Dead in a World of AI | Has Claude Code Crushed Anthropic Already | What Roles of a PM Are Less and More Important with AI | How the Best Product Leaders Tell Stories with Noam Lovinsky, CPO @ Superhuman
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Lovinsky: Software TAM will expand as products solve more complex problems
“I mean, I guess like TAM expansion that I see is that the number of problems, the number of things that you're able to solve with software and do for people, it's just going to expand.”
Noam Lovinsky Jan 16, 2026 ▶ 26:46 20Product: Is the Design Phase Dead in a World of AI | Has Claude Code Crushed Anthropic Already | What Roles of a PM Are Less and More Important with AI | How the Best Product Leaders Tell Stories with Noam Lovinsky, CPO @ Superhuman
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Lovinsky: Continuous background AI inference won't reach general knowledge work by 2026
“Whether it happens widely in knowledge work, By 20, 26, I think is, you know, I'll take a bet with you on that. Certainly for coding. I think in a lot of places we're already there, right? I mean, you have like the Ralph Wiggum stuff that, that popped up over,…”
Noam Lovinsky Jan 16, 2026 ▶ 32:35 20Product: Is the Design Phase Dead in a World of AI | Has Claude Code Crushed Anthropic Already | What Roles of a PM Are Less and More Important with AI | How the Best Product Leaders Tell Stories with Noam Lovinsky, CPO @ Superhuman
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Lovinsky: AI will cause short-term economic pain before driving widespread abundance
“I think we're going to definitely go through a painful period. Wealth inequality in the US is something that I really am concerned, concerned about because it's higher than it's ever been, higher than the Gilded Age, and, ah, that has a lot of very potentially…”
Noam Lovinsky Jan 16, 2026 ▶ 34:12 20Product: Is the Design Phase Dead in a World of AI | Has Claude Code Crushed Anthropic Already | What Roles of a PM Are Less and More Important with AI | How the Best Product Leaders Tell Stories with Noam Lovinsky, CPO @ Superhuman
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Lovinsky: AI UI homogenization will make human taste and creativity stand out
“I actually think that this will lead to creativity and certainly like taste standing out more than ever, because I think you're going to have this like flattening where you are going to have a lot of things that just like, oh, you know, here we go. It's this, …”
Noam Lovinsky Jan 16, 2026 ▶ 15:19 20Product: Is the Design Phase Dead in a World of AI | Has Claude Code Crushed Anthropic Already | What Roles of a PM Are Less and More Important with AI | How the Best Product Leaders Tell Stories with Noam Lovinsky, CPO @ Superhuman
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