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Foster: AI will shrink product teams but make top talent highly valuable
“And I think the same kind of thing is going to happen when it comes to product as well, which is there's going to be a need for fewer product people, but the very best are going to be worth their weight in platinum.”
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Foster: AI will automate data-driven product decisions to eliminate human error
“AI is going to have a really big impact on product management as well, right? You know, because a lot of the decision making, which used to have to be human powered, human centered, can now be kind of like delegated to a machine, which might be able to make be…”
Insight
Foster: Generative AI is inherently derivative and cannot invent novel products
“Theoretically you're trying to build something in product that hasn't been built before. And yet the generative tools that exist out there are all derivative because it's trying to predict based on what's been seen already.”
Insight
Foster: Generative AI models cannot understand a product's core value proposition
“Whether it's chat GPT or any other, these other kind of like generative models, they, or AI systems, they don't have an underlying model of what the real kind of like good, like they don't have a model underneath of what A great product is. They're just trying…”
Opinion
Foster: Human product managers would severely outperform AI in feature A/B tests
“I'd be really interested to see if you like did, you know, the ultimate AB test here and you generated a hundred new features for different products that were all kind of like AI generated as opposed to like good product manager generated who would outperform …”
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Foster: Product managers should not worry about AI replacing them anytime soon
“I think that there's a situation in which the, you know, best product managers could ultimately be beaten once there's actually an underlying model behind these things down the road. But we're talking way in the future at this point, and I don't think that any…”
Opinion
Foster: Entrepreneurs expecting to outsource product creativity to AI are dead wrong
“But I don't think that you get to kind of like outsource creativity as a result of this. And I think there's a lot of entrepreneurs that expect that you will be able to do that. And I think that that's dead wrong, at least for the technology as it stands today…”
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Foster: Analytical AI will revolutionize product management in the next few years
“And for that to become sort of like accessible to every product person, that's going to be the kind of like really game-changing innovation, I think in the next few years in product management.”
Prediction Open · timeframe Jul 2026
Foster: Thousands of startups will be built to replace customer support agents
“Thousands of companies are probably going to like get established using AI to try to replace customer support agents, right?”
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Foster: AI generation of interactive wireframes from user stories is already solvable
“I think that by itself absolutely would. And I think that's a solvable, that is a solvable problem with the technology even as it stands today. So I do think those kinds of things are going to be out there”
Insight
Foster: Rapid AI execution multiplies the value of product leaders' judgment calls
“The judgment calls of yes and no become even more valuable than they were before because they're getting made so many more times a day than they used to be able to be made, right? And so the difference of the best product people to be able to say yes or to say…”
