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The problem that led to The Playground
A volunteer project took on a life of its own, and scaling it into SaaS required solving a UX testing problem that didn't have an off-the-shelf answer.
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Series
SKAI is the Limit?
SKAI is my journey as a Product Manager, exploring what it means to build with AI in real situations.
Through a series of experiments, I look at where AI fits and how it balances with human input to accelerate development.
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The stack: eight tools, four days, zero lines of code
I didn't have a design problem, I had a design-validation problem. Building our own UX testing tool in four days would solve it.
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Four days to build the Playground. A month to design what went inside it.
Building the Playground took four days. Designing the eight prototypes inside it took a month, with a designer in the loop the whole way. AI changed my access, not my expertise.
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Deciding what's in my AI toolkit (for now)
An honest look at the AI tools that earned a spot on my team this week, the ones that didn't, and the three questions I ask before letting anyone new in.
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How I use two AIs to sharpen my product thinking
Six observations from working with two AI models at once. The second tool is the cheapest course correction I've found.
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How I keep myself in the loop
Every prompt guide says be specific. This is the case for staying open a little longer, describing the problem space before the answer, and keeping a human in the choosing.
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Why this series
A record of building with AI, honestly.
Not a tutorial. Not a pitch. A closer look at where AI tools accelerate real work, and where they still need a human to notice what matters.