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😱 Half of PMs are in trouble: what AI changes in your career | Chat in the Arena #115

Papo na Arena · 2026-04-29 · 48 min
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Neste episódio do Papo na Arena, a gente mergulha em como a Inteligência Artificial está mudando a carreira de Product Manager. A partir de conversas recentes com líderes de produto, discutimos o que passa a ser valorizado, o que perde espaço e por que muitos PMs podem estar em risco nesse novo cenário. Falamos sobre a transição de um perfil mais “information mover” para um perfil builder, a importância de product sense, judgment e taste, e como a AI está embaralhando as fronteiras entre engenharia, design e produto. Também entramos em temas como velocidade vs. consistência, cultura de experimentação, ego, reinvenção de carreira e o desconforto como skill essencial — além do impacto no mercado, com layoffs e novos caminhos para PMs. 🗓️ Agenda Product Arena Cursor para PMs e pessoas não técnicas: 09 de maio presencial em SP e 16 de maio online e ao vivo com Arthur e Lucas Mattos 🔗 Links Assine a Product Arena com R$150 OFF Newsletter Brilliant Basics: arthurcastro.substack.com Newsletter O que eu vi por aí: aiquis.substack.com From Hierarchy to Intelligence Da Y Combinator ao Vibe Coding | Papo na Arena #109 Você tem Product Sense? | Papo na Arena #103 💬 Participa com a gente: comenta qual foi o seu Produto da Semana (pode aparecer no próximo episódio). ⭐ Deixa o like, se inscreve e compartilha com alguém que precisa ouvir esse papo. Acompanhe: Instagram: @productarena Hosts: @arthurklose | @aiquis Produtos da Semana - Arthur - Cursor - Aíquis - Substack e NotebookLM - Paulo Rodrigues - Replit - Joaozin - Replit - Erika Oliveira - Replit - Camila Meneghetti - Replit - Rodrigo - Cursor - Lucas Mattos - Cursor - Bia Morales - Cursor - Carol Pilon - Claude Code - Celso k - Claude Code - Arthur Azevedo - Claude Code - Neider Narde - Claude Code - Vanessa - Wise - Fabio - Cartório civil - Caue - Nav-Dasa - Fernanda Faria - Hermes Agent - Matt Lopes - Airalo - Juliana Carvalho - Disney Plus
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Reinvention, Ego and Discomfort It's been a long time since I've been so reflective after consuming content. It's been a while since we saw AIX TLELE, right? The human skill that will continue to be necessary is taste, judgment. Half of the PMs are in trouble. People who don't like building are in serious trouble And, amazingly, it's not the majority of people who are in the product chair who like to do this. Nothing justifies you passing on an AI Slop document, okay? Because it's your job there, it's not because you did it with the AI ​​that it has to be shit, you know? Good product people, naturally, had an easier time with AI, they weren't attached, right? I think it's never been so good to go back to being IC. Reinvention and discomfort should be basic skills for product people. And it never was. Hello! Welcome to Papo na Arena, your weekly podcast, where we indicate what gives this content that we read, heard, watched Always bringing the product vision, for discussion I'm Arthur and today I'm without faith And I'm Aix and it's been a long time since I've been so reflective after consuming content Check it out! All mysterious he is. And on today's show we're going to talk about what AI changes in a PM's career based on two podcasts that, coincidentally, were launched in the same week on Leni. And that! Banger week, right? From Leni. But, the usual messages here before we get to the topic, don't forget to like and leave your comment, like Wuxley did. Always him, Adriano and Regiane. Leave your review on the platform you are listening to, be it Spotify, YouTube, Apple Podcast, because this all really helps the podcast to grow. And if you liked it, share it with one other person. This way, even more people can arrive and what do you help us spread? The Arena's message. And this week we are in 29th. Crisis! Crisis in the Arena! Crisis! Crisis in Gave! Fighting not to fall! So it is! Guys, help us out, huh? And that! Press play, tell one more person to listen and help us reach the Top 20. That's it! And let's go here, before we start, to talk about our partners, Replit, who is here with us always. In the episode we recorded with Marcelo from Replit, we will leave the link in the comments, he commented on the company's mission to empower a billion builders. And today, we're going to tell a story about one of these builders who built something after listening to the episode. Camila Menegheti, who is a senior PM in Grã and also a subscriber to Arena, identified a pain point which is that women advance more slowly because they do not have a sponsor and this needs to change. And then, she created Atelier Sponsor, where you upload your CV, she analyzes your profile and finds potential sponsors and generates a script for you to make an approach. And she created this, of course, which was on Replit in about two hours. And there are already a lot of other women testing it. And I think this is the kind of thing that fills us with pride because it's the complete flywheel, right? She listened to the podcast, is an Arena subscriber, uses Replit, which is our favorite tool, and resolved a latent pain of hers. So, long live builders like Camila. That's it, and if you also want to use all the power and features of Replit, you already know, there's the link below so you can get a 25 dollar discount. Product Arena subscribers have two free months of the Core Plan to test. And if you want to host a hackathon with free Replit credits for your company, send us a message at productarena.io slash Replit, and we'll organize everything for you. That's it, thanks, Replit. Now, let's get to the topic? Let's go there. On today's show, we're going to talk about two of Lene's recent podcasts, as we mentioned in the opening, which were the episodes with Nikhil Segal, who is ex-meta and ex-Google, and with Cat Vu, who is head of product at Cloud Code. And we decided to talk about these two programs together because they both touch on the same subject, which is changes in the position and career of a PM, which are obviously being brought about by AI, which is also one of our favorite topics on the podcast. And it's cool to talk about them together because I think they bring really cool and very complementary perspectives to this discussion. And here it will be a classic chat in the arena, with us exchanging ideas about what we thought of the program. So, for us to start, Tuzão, let's talk about what they bring about changing the profile of PMs, what becomes valued, what loses value, what will change in our careers in the coming years... It's already changing and will change in the coming years. The two complements were cool, because one, Cat Wu is there showing the expected skills and how it works within Antropic, from a company that is kind of dictating the pace there. Native company, right? AI Native. Exactly. And Nick Kier there, he shows like, from the door out, right? The movements he is... That he is seeing. In fact, I really agree, starting with the first bomb here, I really liked the part he said, man, half the PMs are in trouble. It may seem a bit clickbait, but I agree with it. And we were even discussing this a few days ago, right? When the episode came out, we heard it, we talked about it, I even wanted you to bring this topic here, because I think it's a good one for us to discuss too. But I agree with him. People who don't like building are in serious trouble. And, amazingly, not the majority of people in the product chair like to do this. Dude, total. While I was listening to this podcast, I was sending a lot of messages to Arthur, my head was exploding and I was thinking. Because I think there are several strong phrases, but I think the main reflection that I had never stopped to think about, actually, is that a lot of people are in the product area, right? It started in recent years and it started a lot because the product has consolidated itself as a career that exists. Technology, right? So, it's not that... And it pays well. And it pays well and you don't necessarily need a technical background there, right? You can come from other disciplines. And something he says, which made me very reflective, is that many of these people are not necessarily people who are passionate about technology. And I had never stopped to think about it. Because for me it was always very natural... Man, I love technology, it's a business I liked before working with products. I graduated in systems because I liked it. And I think this reflects a lot, man, how I approach the profession and having to learn new things and the excitement that comes with these moments of great change that are... That technology allows to exist, right? Like, all the changes that AI is making to our profession. But for a lot of people, man, they don't have that same thing. And I had never stopped to think about it. This is just another job, okay? I'm not saying here that people have to love their jobs or anything like that. But I think you have the same thing as me. For us, when we take it and put it together, I'm going to study this here outside of work hours, I'm going to read about it, I'm going to delve deeper, I'm going to make some products on my own, that's fun. It's not, like, work, in a way. Because we like the topic. So, that was very... It made me very reflective. I think that, in fact, now that we are at a moment where this effort necessarily has to be used, he says a lot, like, these next two years are going to be years of sacrifice for you to put in the work. Man, there will be a lot of people who will be sacrificed, indeed. And there will be people who, holy shit, will be having a blast. Which I think is where we will even have this distinction between the builder versus manager profile, right? Yes, and he brings up another observation that we talked about when we... Back in the episode about the GPM layer, when it comes to cutting and everything else, which is the information movement, right? Which is, for a long time, structures were made for just that. Having someone who took the material, investigated it to, like, go up to other layers. Jack's text, which he wrote about hierarchy, Jack Torsey, right? From Block, he released a text about hierarchy dating back to the Roman Empire, which is when neicos and information movers were born, right? Basically. So it's not something new. And the more we accelerate in this world of making mistakes, the less you necessarily need it. And this is something that he brings, that he has a community of leaders and everything, right? From Skip. And he says that, man, a lot of people were like, damn, man, I know how to do this well and now I don't... I don't know if I don't want to do it. And he is, buddy, I'm sorry, but you're going to have to do it. And, again, I think it's logical that we're talking here to several... with several quotation marks here, because we know different company sizes, different contexts, etc. But, man, I think it's a movement that will actually happen. And, right? Point being, if you don't like this, the chaos, man, it's probably going to be more complicated for you. And I think it's cool that he says this very much from a position of empathy. At least the way I heard his words on the podcast, right? He wasn't releasing these things because he wanted to make, like, impactful titles or something like that. He was really reflecting on the impact of this and it was even curious that Lenny would sometimes tease him about something and he would bring it up. Dude, interesting, I hadn't thought about it that way and all, but I think what he brings is really cool, in our time in the job market today, I was even talking about, man, I've been in the tech market for 15 years, more or less. And we kind of followed the little idea of, hey, you're going to work for X number of years, you're going to go deeper, you're going to become a senior in your position, then you'll eventually become a junior and then you become a junior again, right? Because you have things you didn't know that you have to learn. And now we are entering an era where this institutional agreement is no longer fulfilled. when you were finally going to enjoy all your years of work, the seniority you had as an IC, after the seniority as a manager, now they are telling you that you have to learn everything again, that the way of doing your work has changed and I understand people who think this is unfair, you know? In a way. Like, is this life? Is it capitalism? Yeah, beauty. But it's... I think it's really cool that he brings it from this point of empathy of like, I'm not saying it's going to be easy, I'm not saying it's fair, but it is what it is. Something happened in recent years that changed structurally. What is this profession? What is valued in this profession? What do you have to master or who will do better at this moment? I think it's a... It's a very fair reflection, you know? Like, for anyone listening. I agree, man. It's been a long time since we last saw AX Tilelê, right? It's there, oh. There was a time when he didn't show up. I think we were more Tilelê, right? Yeah, hey, it's back there. But it's very curious because I've been very reflective since this podcast, today I was reflecting from yesterday to today that Product Manager has two components, right? It has the Product component and the Manager component. And a lot of what Nikhil talks about on the podcast is that those who like the Product part of the business more than, in my view, the build part. Yes. They are the people who at this moment will be more valued or who, at least, will have more fun with what is happening. And I think that's another cool thing he brings, right? The people, like, the leaders in his community, were always tired and sad. Now they are tired but happy. So, it's still a demanding business, it's still tiring as hell, but now they're happy with the things they're doing. There was this joy of it happening, right? AND. And he even makes a provocation, right? There for Lenin, like, man, nowadays, what do you prefer? Record an episode of the podcast or sit at Cloud Code there and you there? Of course it is Cloud Code. He could have said, no, man, it could just be Cloud Code, but since I'm here recording with you, of course it's a lot less cool, right? Not even for Lenin, man, I thought he... could... The ball was bouncing there for him to make an average. No, he was honest, right? Because it was built really cool, old man, that's the thing. No, totally. But, hey, something that we've already talked about in several episodes, our most listened to episodes here are about Product Sense. I think it's worth going to this part now where they address both, they address this a lot, man, Judgment and Product Taste as the most important skill. regardless of your chair, right? If you're a designer, if you're an engineer, even Cat Wu talks about something very interesting, which is, man, nowadays we pay more attention to engineers with good Product Taste than necessarily just native product people. Overall, I think the two converge towards these traditional product team positions, they will have some level of overlap between them. It's an engineer making a product, a PM making an engineering, a designer making an engineering, so everything will mix and the human skill that will continue to be necessary is taste, judgment, which we talk about a lot here. And there's a quote from Cat that I really like: in her view, the PM will still be the final decision maker. that within Antropic she sees Clod as a good thought partner or a summarizer of things, of information. Because we always talk, right? Total. And that's it, when I think about my day-to-day use of Clod, it does exactly those things. He helps me think, he takes a lot of information that's in a lot of different documents and structures it in an easy way for us to talk about it and make connections, but at the end of the day I'm the one making the decision and I'm still the one who will be judged by the quality of the decision. That's what we say, nothing justifies you passing on an AI Slop document, okay? Because it's your job there. Just because you did something with the AI ​​doesn't mean it has to be shit, you know? They both talk a lot about this sense of product, right? What is it, or whatever name it is. Which is a bit like when we said there that we already brought up the phrase from Duolingo VIP which is, man, I managed to argue why something is good or bad. And it's really crazy that this seems so simple in description, but in practice it's not, right? No. That's what we talked about with Victor on the last program, right? Like, man, it's about taking all the references you have that you've collected throughout your life and being able to make the neural connections there in a non-trivial way and the difficult part of this is collecting the references because going back to what we said, man, why do we have a lot of references? Because we like technology as a whole and we're consuming a lot, we're kind of looking at the Matrix behind things, like, you're using a product and you're thinking about it as a product and not just as that experience and then you do these things. Wow, if the person is making things passive, they won't be able to extract the reference from that either. You're just pressing the button and not looking at what that button is at the end, you know? You are not taking away the reference. Or it will be super biased with little product taste, right? Like, it won't be biased towards, I don't know, consuming someone's summary, like, someone's vision and you won't create your own taste, right? That's why I always say, man, I've been doing Moblinks for 10 years and now Kikwin about interesting news that I've read and my observations on this point. Do I use AI in the process? I definitely use it. But, no, I use AI to structure and compile my information. But, my source is where I get the news from and I do it. I read all the news, I make my notes about each one and then I use AI to, like, structure this better than I would spend a whole day doing. And I think that's it, when you become dependent on the type of AI and doing all the steps, it's a total loop, right? Then things don't work. There's also another point that I found interesting in that, like, hey, what's going to change in the profession, like this? And maybe things that in the past we looked at less and maybe now more, which is, they both talked about it from different angles, but in the same thing, people who are more perfectionists in the AI ​​era, this is more of a hindrance than a help. And then, man, this connects with a point that Kat Wu talked about, man, they are ok with sacrificing like, the product is always, I forgot the exact phrase she said, she went to do it. Is that the example she gives of Tio from List? No, that's what she says here like, man, we sacrifice like, the product, consistency, I remembered, consistency, the product is perfect and so on and so on. Why? I have the phrase here, if you want, because for me it was one of the most memorable. Say it, say it. Leni asks her what changes in this era with AI where things are built quickly and she says that what changes is product consistency, what we no longer have is product consistency. Yeah, and that's why I'm saying this, because, man, with AI, it will always suggest something else for you to do. She will always give it to you, do you want to do it here too? Do you want to do this here too? Wow, this looks great, how about we add this other thing? And then you go there, yes, yes, a little click, but then, until you get to this part, man, you could have already had it, right away, you could have already put it on the air, you could have already taken the inputs and evolved, you know, the product. So, and another thing that really impressed me that she talked about is how to minimize the time between an idea and the client testing it, right, like, man, here we are passionate about doing it, delivering it faster for users to test it, right, and we learn about it. And that connected me with something which is, man, I don't think this is just because of AI. The best teams I've ever worked on, and well, anyone who's worked with me knows how annoying I am with this part of maintaining cadence, having, you know, man, one of the companies I worked for, we changed one of the principles which was fast and furious. So, I think that's why good product people naturally had an easier time with AI because of this, they weren't attached, you know, it was, like, putting it out there to learn more. And I think that with AI it has enhanced this. Totally, it's cultural, right, they could have all the speed in the world of development and models and still, like, I'm not going to launch things half-finished here in Search Preview. I'll wait for them to be more polished and then, when they're polished, they'll come back. But I think it resonates a lot with what several other people from Staff Dantrop who have already said in other interviews, which is, we only find out what we can do when we put it in people's hands. We test here and such, we take our cases, but the reality is that we only find out what happens when we put it in the user's hands, which is that old story, the user will always think something different, will do something that you didn't imagine. The user is awesome. It's very complicated, it's old, it's terrible, but, yeah, I think it's along the lines of, like, there's no point in you just wanting to change your way of working in a way... Now I'm going to put these models here and things will move quickly, you know? There are cultural aspects of the company that come back because we always say that, like, change has to come from above and so on, right? Culture is not what you say you do, but what you actually do. The teams that were already used to putting things in front of the user quickly, AI is another tool for them to be able to put things out, perhaps faster, it's nitro, more variations and better finished, perhaps, it's the tied with string 2.0 here that works much better. But now, if you take a team that perhaps didn't have this culturally, a company that doesn't have the incentive to do this, it's not because what they're going to do is now possible. AI doesn't do magic, right? It accelerates, but it doesn't do magic. And this is a great hook to say that next week, on May 7th, we will have another episode, what? Recorded live with our partners at Itaú and we're calling a great team, huh? We're calling a team like this, look... Who's going to be there, Arthur? Tell the people. No, first I'll talk about the topic, right? Perfect. How AI is changing the structure of organizations. And we already have two people confirmed. There's Amu, who is director of product and technology at Serena and who has already participated in one. And Fernanda Faria, CPTO of Zé Delivery and who has also appeared here on the podcast and will have yet another participation, huh? Amu were already here. Yeah, but we're going to call them to have a discussion about it. So, day 7 of 5 in person here in São Paulo. We will be recording more episodes and the details will be in the links here and we will wait for you there. And that. Well, let's also talk a little about market changes, because I think there are some very interesting takes here. I think, say, before talking about market change, since we are talking about personal perception, I would like us to say that they both talk a lot about reinvention, mistakes and discomfort. And I think it's a good point that we keep talking about being comfortable with discomfort. In the episode that we recorded, the last in-person episode that we recorded live, Valéria also talked about this, from iFood, about those who like chaos and Cat Wu also said the same thing about the type of people they like to hire, especially at the moment they are those who have been through several ups and downs and know where to invest energy without necessarily despairing because of the chaos. And Nath, he also talks a lot about the moment, especially people who are information movers, it's time for you to swallow your ego and damn man, beauty, if in your career you led a huge team of several people and everything else, it could be a moment in which you will be strategic for your career, man, I don't think it's ever been so good to go back to being IC, I think it's like, I say this from personal experience, I don't know, in the middle of last year, I was GPM here at Hotmart, right, so I led some teams there and the opportunity arose to go back to being an individual PM contributor. A squad was already something I was thinking about precisely because I had this in my head right away, I want to get my hands dirty, I really want to do the part of building products with AI at this moment because I think that way I will learn a lot more and not that I can't use AI in management, it's just that I think the way you use it is different as an individual contributor and I thought that moment made sense to me, I think it's a change that I'm thinking about in the long term of my career, maybe I was thinking more in the short term, now this is what happened. It makes sense to continue as GPM to climb the steps to become product director and so on, but at that moment I said, man, there's this opportunity to learn a business that's completely new that no one knows about and I think this is the best place for me to be and, I don't know, I'm the person who normally doesn't care much about this position and stuff, I'm on the same team as Efren, I think that everyone who manages from time to time should go back to being an individual contributor because I think there's a hell of a gain, I don't think there's ever been such a moment. good for that and that's what he says, right, man, maybe this moment, I don't know, your career of years of management in Big Tech, maybe it's not worth anything at this moment and I think he was a little extreme there, I don't think that's the case, seals are still important, but I think there's a window of opportunity, perhaps for those who don't have the seals to take advantage of it and those who do have the seals, and of course, do a certain level of recycling there, in fact, and I think there's a way in which they make this tangible and even going back to that part of the professionals, they're like a a lot of product people are having problems, man, that classic complaint all the time, the roadmap is changing, etc. man, it probably won't be a little more difficult and I was also very reflective about this because reinvention and discomfort should be basic skills for product people and it was never interesting, most people don't treat it as a skill, I think it makes sense and for me the strongest phrase that also stood out most for me from this podcast for Nick Hill is when he says that in product work there are very few days of satisfaction and that phrase for me is 100% real I tweeted this the day I heard it when I was talking a lot with people who were wanting to migrate to the product and I always told them straight away it's not an easy job it's not an easy job because when things go wrong it's your fault and when they're a success it's the team's success and most of the days man aren't celebrations, they're a lot of hard work as hell there are difficult things politics management etc so it's not an easy business I really identified when he said that because that's it and that's it. what you said like it's very easy to get frustrated with this type of work when it's a job that doesn't bring you satisfaction most of the days I think I don't get frustrated because for me it's the work that's what I said that's part of the profession of being a product manager you know it's not more or less it's part of everyday life like other professions have several characteristics I think this is a fundamental characteristic and then I think what changes is what it brings is before people were exhausted and sad with these things now it has emerged a new business that people are having fun doing and that's how I feel like in my day to day life as IC today man there's still a lot of things that haven't changed that part that things are wrong are still the PM's fault but damn there's this part of building and doing things with AI and learning that it's cool as hell old man that's like the coolest part of the day is when the cloud code spits out a cool thing and since you talked about cloud code spitting out a cool thing I'm also going to do something else here last Saturday now we did the first ira Brazilian edition of the cloudinho course for PMs and non-tech guys man it was really cool shout out to Cauê and everyone who participated it's really cool and I think that in person it should be even more so, we're planning to do a face-to-face one, the guys had their cameras open and when we went there for them to do something and everything, the guys' faces were really good, like the eureka moment effect, okay, we can do that, we said damn if we can do that, sometimes let me test it and I don't know what So I said all of this here, you can see it on LinkedIn, I'll also leave the link so you can see it in the comments of those who participated because we're going to have the next edition on May 16th, it's going to be online too. If you subscribe, you can watch it now, okay, so that's it on May 16th, another edition and that's it now, let's close by talking about market change, let's go, this part is good too, I think the strong phrase here is there's going to be a hell of a layoff and Nihil's phrase is that they're going to fire 30 thousand people and they're going to hire 8 thousand back and then a lot of that comes from that context where he says that half of the PMs are screwed and so on and man I think I believe in something along those lines, in fact we do. You're already seeing these movements, right? We talked about the block there when the layoff happened, then several others made the target, they also announced that they're going to lay off 10% of the company's employees, including this month, the target must be wonderful, they announced this week that in a month they're going to do the exact layoff, they froze 6 thousand vacancies, so this is already happening in total and I think it's curious, right? This was the part until Nick Hill was like, seriously, this was at zero, I expected it and even in these target layoffs, I was seeing, like, with these layoffs, they're going to go back to the headcount they were at in 2023, you know, so it's not like hell, the target is back 10 years. so man, there's a lot more to this here than just the impact, but one thing I believe is that not everyone who is a PM today and who will go through layoffs will return to the market as a PM. I think that the expectations for what a PM does will change based on everything we've already said and another thing he also says that I think makes a lot of sense is that good PMs will find places for positions that are not exactly product technology teams, so they go to marketing to build things for sales to build things for HR to build things, this is something that is a path of career that was less open I think in the past it was possible but I think it was much less traditional which will start to happen we see PM builders building products in other areas of companies you know and so this is a great time for me to say that Arthur Dinah's predictions are always ahead of time because in my predictions last year it wasn't even I have a Kinder Egg doll here which is rubbish now I thought you were going to say that the doll had something to do with it but I even broke the doll here Now, but my predictions were that we would see a lot more product people, founders, Nikhil says this about his community, there are several people who, after they stopped being PMs, leaders, etc. in companies, they said, this isn't going to be the case, now I'm going to be a founder, I'm going to open my own business and everything else, and what you're saying, you also agree and I totally agree with that, too, that's what this look at the product is still very valuable, which is taste, other areas are not what they are and then I want to make this very clear here because I don't believe that product is better than others. very clear areas but it's the same as the disclaimer you made in the face-to-face work episode but this look at just like the product doesn't have a vision for some other things less than that the specific areas, I think that other areas do not have as structured product thinking as we do as product people have learned for many years that good product people have learned for many years that they are not information movers, right? at Proto Arena training for product teams technology teams design teams marketing teams man in the last few years in the last two years specifically many companies have called us to teach product for HR teach product for marketing teach product thinking critical thinking for other areas and I think this is a movement that will naturally happen you know because in the end product management is a series of different skills that you do in your daily life and that's what I say to everyone else that I say to those who are migrating areas there is nothing incredible about what we do anyone can be trained to do what a PM does, it's as simple as that, you know, so there's a lot of the person's intrigue that we talk about being curious, people who say that we speak a lot of English must be intrigued, I said a lot of things, there's that but there's a lot of the person's personality being curious about the person chasing after etc. because the hard skills of the profession are easily trained, obviously like any hard skill you will have it easier or more difficult but it's something that you teach and such and what will change is which hard skills are valued more or less what we said here the formation mover will lose its place this guy many times he didn't become a formation mover because he actively went there and chose to do that that's what the market was shaping a lot of PMs to be in the last few years because that was the companies growing fast you needed to do more management than product so the skills you had to develop things for what you were valued for were more management activity in many places it's not that we were talking about half the people are bad because they are information movers it's not like much of what the market has evolved to ask of a PM in the last few years That's what it was now we think and the people from the podcasts we're talking about here think it's going to be something else, it's going to be a much more profile of building critical thinking and execution, so in the end it's the career changing, many careers change over time, we've reached a moment where the product is changing, just like those who went through who was a product manager in the 90s, which was Jocas, only then came internet companies and then what it was changed, then mobile came and changed what it was, they heard it on some podcast, so what it meant to be a product changed. manager is just another change, others will come, you know, that's it, and you know what doesn't change, what doesn't change, doesn't change, that the good morning metrics are one of the most important things to do and Cat Wu also talked about this that one of the ways they use the good morning metrics and it's logical that she learned from the arena for sure because good professionals learn from us but she said that one of the ways in this intersection between guy engineer makes product product makes engineering and I don't know who else etc. is how they manage to get everyone on the same page of the company's objectives of the company's mission and as often as possible and she said that she uses good morning metrics every day there they gather there and show the data that's how she said we use good morning metrics good morning metrics after this is there anything else or let's go to the product of the week an exercise that Nétil tells you to do that will probably leave you old Nétil Nétil who is look at your agenda from last week and categorize it for the little one there meetings that sucked your energy red yellow and green most of the information move probably most of it will be red and yellow because the other part is greener than the others, more green and yellow, it's probably the builders, it's a simple exercise but I think it's worth doing and if you do, leave a comment here on the episode and then it's a message from Aix it's not Nikhil's you are more in control of your schedule than you think I think we've even done a podcast about controlling your schedule something like that but you have you can take a lot more action with your time than you think so don't let people decide what your time is going to be spent on you be more active in this dude you're very tile today let's get to the product of the week good let's get to the product of the week and today it's you who starts so I'm the one who starts today it's you damn man mine is the cursor my little product my favorite products damn you gave a course on cloud code co-work it's not co-work this week because it's already part of it I understand it's increasingly difficult not to bring the cloud every week just to say and also because you can use the cloudinho within the cursor so that's not a problem but then I think one of the main advantages for me as I use the cursor a lot is precisely this part of being able to change the models and test different outputs for the same thing in a very practical way straight there with the cursor agents, so for me product of the week and on the 13th of the 5th, not before, I mean May 9th, it's really cool, man, the machine is so today, the guy from shop time there would be happy with me from polishop, I don't know, Ciro Bottini from shop Ciro Bottini, exactly, but on May 9th, which is next Saturday, there will be the third edition of cursor for PMs in person here in São Paulo, Luquita and I from the guys, so there's still space, sign up there and Oh, if you participate, you will have special faith that Nina Bozão will exercise her baristic skills especially for the participants, so stay there, stay there, if you want to have a special drink of Mozão's best quality, we'll see you on the 9th and you, what was your product, man, mine are two here which were the Substack and the Notebook LM, the guy is nostalgic, I'm saying that Aix, Aix Tileleia came back and brought with him the news back, but hey, two of them were preparing for this program here because I listened to one of the podcasts a couple of weeks ago and then it's time to remember and stuff like that, so Notebook LM to play the content there, do the mind map, man, it's killer for preparing here for the topics and Substack specifically the podcast transcription feature because it has a search that is very good in transcription so it helps a lot like that phrase where you remember a word more or less but you don't remember it in its entirety go there and search so that's my two from this week what the guys sent to Guys, we had a combo here today Paulo Rodrigues Joãozinho, Érica Oliveira and Camila Meneghetti sent Replit, Rodrigo and Lucas Matos and Bia Morales sent Cursor and Claudinho's tram Carol Pilon Celso Arthur Azevedo Ney Dernard sent Claudio, it's the battle of the year, right, there's no battle of the year, Claudio is already fired up, right, but there are rivals, Vanessa sent Wise, Fábio sent the Civil Registry even sends a shout out here Fabinho game over is getting married this weekend, got married, got married, right, he was already at the Civil, he was at the Civil and this weekend maybe we won't record on Monday because I'll probably be hungover, okay, but this is where the party of the year will be, Cauê sent Navidaza, there was a time when people didn't send him, Navidaza said it works very well to schedule the exams, do what he needs to do to Fernanda Faria who is one of our guests this week Come on, of course, I was talking to her, send her the product of the week, then she sent Hermes, an agent there she is using, Matt Lopes, who is there in London, now she sent Erlo, who is inclusive, you will use it there for your trips, this is the one to buy e-yes, to buy the internet, you bought the e-yes, it is already installed here, see, and Ju Carvalho sent Disney Plus, which is putting Stitch there for her son to watch, so here are the tips and these were the products of the week, very well, continue sending us your products of the week and we have a pool of when we will get to the episode in the product of the week 2000 because it's on fire here, we're almost at product 1200, that's it, let's see, right? five stars and send this episode to Is there one more person who you think will like this conversation we had today, it always helps the podcast grow a lot, we're on target for the top 20 on Spotify, we're going to arrive, we're going to arrive with faith before I want to reach the top 20 before my vacation, but if it doesn't arrive before your vacation, you know it's going to arrive soon after, it's going to arrive the following week, so it's going to be like that, the problem is me, clearly, the podcast is going to arrive the following week because we're going to announce a really cool deal there, next week, I don't know, week. that's coming but we're going to announce a really cool deal and in the live episode there it's going to be really good and that's it follow us on the networks at at arthurclose with k at at arthurclose with k at at x at productarena that we are always posting asking for everything for the week talking 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