Builder life looks different than people imagine.
A full-time job, a side-hustle hub, three kids, co-authoring a new book and a car that has hosted an unreasonable number of calls from the school parking lot 30 minutes before pickup.
Oddly, this is also when Iโm most productive.
Today I jokingly told ChatGPT:
โIโm about to delete you. Bye ๐โ
Its reply made me realize that a year ago I was asking it for basic tasks, today itโs literally helping me ship 100 Mac minis to students taking our new agentic AI course so they can run agents locally at home.
We escalated quickly.
Improvisation at its best: printed 300 business cards with an extra โrโ in my email for a huge conferenceโso I bought the typo domain on the spot. Chaos contained.
Retreating back to the safety of LinkedIn QR codes.
Best,
Marrily
Just scrolling Marketplace and thereโs a casually listed humanoid robot like itโs a used coffee table. Absolutely normal times.
It was fantastic meeting Priscilla Chan & Mark Zuckerberg last night. The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative will now concentrate on AI & scientific research, led by a network of research centers called Biohub to accelerate discoveries that design treatments to change lives.
In 2024, I visited the 1X offices and checked EVE out, their current robot at the time. I also saw NEO nearby, which looked remarkably humanโalmost like someone in a suit. The NEO PM told me, โGive it a year, and everyone will have one of these at homeโ.Well, here we areโฆ pre-order is in ๐ค
POV: Getting into an argument with Sora about who is the real content creator
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Fast forward to today: 18 years (216 months) later, that adventure became the journey of a lifetime from moving continents, to a PhD in AI to joining big tech in 2013, to founding my own education & learning company, to becoming an author and getting to work with and meet incredibly talented people.
On this day back in 2007, I packed my life into a suitcase and left Greece โ for what was supposed to be a 12-month adventure to leave everything behind and study computer science.
Me: Iโll give folks a few minutes to join my AI Agent webinar
Also me, 60 seconds in: ๐ 473 participants already
โจ Experimentation is amazing but we need to also start thinking about moving from experiments โ operationalization. Itโs not about side projects. Itโs about integrating AI into roadmaps, KPIs, and ROI.
โจ Biggest myths we had to unlearn:
-โAI is cheatingโ
-โAI will replace PM intuitionโ
Back on stage after mat leave at Women In Product's 10th Conference. 1000 people, AI everywhere. I shared thoughts on moving from AI hype โ AI how:
โจ All PMs will be AI-first - this needs to be our default lens for solving problems.
๐จย Itโs called a bootcamp for a reason ๐โโ๏ธ For our September's AI PM Bootcamp cohort, Iโm assigning an engineer to every single team โ so you donโt just design a capstone project, you *actually* launch it.
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Today I learned that AI can help you interpret a babyโs cry ๐ง
Nano Banana is totally bananas ๐ For folks that haven't tried this yet, it's an advanced AI image model from Google DeepMind that allows you to edit and combine photos with text.
Gemini comes to Google Home! This is the team I'm a part of.It was fun to explore what GenAI can do on communal devices.Some use cases I briefly worked on:โadd the ingredients to make an authentic Italian lasagna to my shopping listโ,โset a timer for perfectly blanched broccoliโ ๐ฅฆ
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Teaching a โBuilding AI Agentsโ workshop while also on hold for 90+ minutes waiting for 'the next available agent' to sort out an insurance bill. The irony...
Product Managers should view AI as a colleague or rather as a team of really smart AI interns.
Prompting โ Chatting with AI.
โจย Chatting is conversational. You ask a vague question ("Tell me about go to market strategies") and get a vague, textbook answer. It's fine for simple queries, but not that transformative.
โจย Prompting is directive and it's the skill of giving structured instructions.
Thought of the day: Use AI quietly. The less we talk about AI, the better. The more we talk about what it enables, the better.
Deep voice conversations with advanced AI are an underrated luxury most people havenโt discovered yet.
I got to meet Sundar Pichai last week! Still taking in everything from Google I/O โ the learnings & energy โ but getting the chance to meet our CEO after 12 years at Google was *easily* the #1 highlight. Sundar visited our AI Builders group at the AI Pavilion & the excitement was obvious. #googleio
AI Builders got their own actual, real TPU at Google I/O today. Coolest swag ever.
#googleio
๐จ Top AI announcements on Google I/O
โจย ๐๐ด๐ฒ๐ป๐ ๐ ๐ผ๐ฑ๐ฒ
โจย ๐๐ ๐ ๐ผ๐ฑ๐ฒ
โจย ๐ฃ๐ฟ๐ผ๐ท๐ฒ๐ฐ๐ ๐ ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ถ๐ป๐ฒ๐ฟ
โจ ๐ก๐ฒ๐ ๐ฝ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐๐ผ๐ป๐ฎ๐น๐ถ๐๐ฒ๐ฑ ๐๐ต๐ผ๐ฝ๐ฝ๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐ฒ๐
๐ฝ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ถ๐ฒ๐ป๐ฐ๐ฒ ๐ถ๐ป ๐๐ ๐ ๐ผ๐ฑ๐ฒ!
โจ ๐ฃ๐ฟ๐ผ๐ท๐ฒ๐ฐ๐ ๐๐๐๐ฟ๐ฎย โญ
โจ ๐ง๐ฟ๐ ๐ผ๐ป ๐ฌ๐ผ๐
โจ ๐ฃ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐๐ผ๐ป๐ฎ๐น๐ถ๐๐ฎ๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป ๐ผ๐ป ๐๐ฒ๐บ๐ถ๐ป๐ถ ๐ฎ๐ฝ๐ฝ
โจ ๐ฉ๐๐ข 3
โจ ๐ก๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ฟ ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ฎ๐น-๐๐ถ๐บ๐ฒ ๐๐ฝ๐ฒ๐ฒ๐ฐ๐ต ๐๐ฟ๐ฎ๐ป๐๐น๐ฎ๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป
โจ ๐๐๐น๐ฒ๐
โจ ๐๐น๐ผ๐
#googleio
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Lately, thereโs been a surge in products branded as 'AI Agent for X.' But I believe weโre moving towards a future where simply saying 'X' will implicitly mean it involves AI, and inherently agentic capabilities. How long before users start expecting AI as a default, rather than a differentiator?
I use different AI tools for different use cases. My new discovery that has helped me a lot on every day dillemmas is Perplexity's 'social-only' search that summarizes relevant discussions (with links to actual threads) primarily from Reddit.
AI โ Product
AI Agents โ Chatbots
AI Product Management โ AI *for* Product Management
AGI โ Just a bigger, better AI
AI ethics โ a solved problem
your skills + AI โ your skills OR AI
AI in Healthcare โ Just diagnostic tools
Big AI models โ Inherently smarter
AI automation โ Job replacement
In AI Products,we are building ๐๐ป๐ณ๐ฎ๐บ๐ถ๐น๐ถ๐ฎ๐ฟ experiences for users. Experiences they have never seen before.Truth is that users can tell you whatโs broken about the path towards a use case, they won't tell you how to fix it.Listen, observe behaviors then design what they didnโt know is possible with AI
If youโre overwhelmed, then you're on the right track. It's when I feel I've got a good handle of things when I realized something is wrong. Don't wait, start with the fundamentals and get used to adapting as things shift.
