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Lovinsky: The ideal AI-era product team is one PM, designer, two engineers
“I think now you're much more looking at, you know, it's like maybe one PM, one designer, two engineers is kind of like, you know, what you need.”
Noam Lovinsky Jan 16, 2026 ▶ 21:30 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: Great product leaders are fundamentally exceptional storytellers
“I mean, I think fundamentally a great product leader is a great Storyteller. Someone that is able to understand what the customers actually need, what problem that actually needs to be solved and can form that into a story that is just well understood and well…”
Noam Lovinsky Jan 16, 2026 ▶ 5:09 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: Productivity pitches signal product teams misunderstand their true value
“I think we like, Lean to things like time and productivity when we don't know what the value is, what the true value is.”
Noam Lovinsky Jan 16, 2026 ▶ 7:48 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: Strict role specialization in tech product design doesn't work
“The idea that like you are a designer and therefore you stay in these lanes and you do these tasks and you don't do engineering work or you don't do product work just like doesn't make sense. Like it doesn't work that way.”
Noam Lovinsky Jan 16, 2026 ▶ 8:53 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: Use AI coding agents to co-write product specifications
“You should use the thing that's going to code it to help you write it because it's going to end up creating a version of that output that is more compatible with what it understands to do the work.”
Noam Lovinsky Jan 16, 2026 ▶ 14:24 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: Instagram's core product insight was tapping into latent consumer vanity
“The product insight is that, you know, vanity is Much bigger market than we realized it was as a, you know, latent demand that kind of tapped into.”
Noam Lovinsky Jan 16, 2026 ▶ 7:16 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 products must let customers build custom extensions to survive
“I think that your customers are going to build on top of your product is a requirement for everyone. That is serious because customers needs are always nuanced. And I think we're very quickly moving to a world where you're just going to have a lot more bespoke…”
Noam Lovinsky Jan 16, 2026 ▶ 28:18 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: Poor user experience, not model capability, limits AI productivity gains
“I think in, in most cases, that's not actually a problem with the model or a problem with the technology. I think it's often a problem with the user experience.”
Noam Lovinsky Jan 16, 2026 ▶ 33:43 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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