[Weekly Retro] Fears and opportunities
#266 - Oct.2025
Happy Friday!
Reporting back after a period away from posting.
I’m writing these words from Buenos Aires, Argentina, where I spent the week talking with customers at an AWS Retail event about managing digital products and, in particular, the role of Product Managers in the age of AI.
These interactions are such rich experiences as you start to understand how challenges (and fears) are common across companies, regardless of size and complexity.
Changing the mindset from command-based to intent-based interactions in products is not trivial. Production-ready solutions are slowly gaining traction, but there is still a long way ahead. How to measure productivity created by AI is not straightforward. How AI will change us as humans is extremely subjective.
Is a mix of fears and opportunity. How you engage with this reality will make a difference. You can take it as a threat and push back against the change or you can take it as an opportunity to explore, learn and iterate. Everyone is taking a decision today.
These are interesting times. Such a potential ahead of us waiting for builders and curious people to generate the next wave of world’s prosperity. For everyone!
👨🏻💻 Interesting links
- OpenAI’s DevDay introduced AgentKit—a visual platform enabling teams to build multi-agent workflows.
- Figma’s ChatGPT integration creates flowcharts and diagrams directly from conversations.
- Microsoft redesigned Office icons on October 6 with fluid shapes and rich gradients to signal the shift from app-driven to AI-driven workflows
- How to be strategic and how to be seen as strategic are different things
- Visualisations explore what the deep future holds for our night sky
- iRobot Founder: Don’t Believe The (AI & Robotics) Hype!
🖋️ Quote of the week
“Everything you can imagine is real.” – Pablo Picasso
