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ProductMind, an AI consulting practice founded by Oji Udezue, Ezinne Udezue, and Ted Yang, has released a set of product and business judgment skills designed to automate product decisions, such as evaluating whether an idea is duplicative or if a customer segment is specific enough, and made them available in a GitHub repository and a chat engine called The Shipyard. The skills aim to help builders apply product judgment within AI tools like Claude Code, addressing the challenge that while code generation is easy for LLMs, judgment remains hard.

If you’re coming from Akaash’s Product Growth podcast... start here Learn about how to automate some of your Product Judgment and move faster Product and business skills will elevate you as a builder Every worry that you can build something that seems great to you , but no one wants it or will pay for it? Well, we built skills that can tell you “No”. They say “That idea is duplicative,” or “Your customer is not specific enough”. And man, is this worth its weight in gold One of the things near and dear to our hearts at productMind https://productmind.co is helping builders really understand what’s happening and what’s coming, as we enter a new AI age. And here’s one hot take: Code generation is, well, a bit trite now. Content generation is the easiest thing an LLM can do https://substack.productmind.co/p/the-ai-revolution-runs-on-five-building . And to a large language model, code and text are very similar types of generation. You could even argue that code is easier; it’s a defined problem with a deterministic result based on syntax. We have even written textbooks about how to do it well, and all the LLMs have read them in their training montage. Writing the Odyssey literature more generally however, is not a solved problem; it’s harder. If it wasn’t, we would not be able to quickly detect AI slop from models trained on BuzzFeed-style writing. So code is ‘easy’, and that’s why it’s one of the reasons it’s the first killer app for LLMs. All of Anthropic’s profits go through Claude Code, and they’re even bigger than OpenAI now on the back of that. What’s hard is judgement. All day long, these things you build rely on your judgement and orchestration, or else they produce suboptimal output. You’re the experienced human in the loop. We have a maxim: a tech company is 3 things: And many builders don’t do the last two very well. Well, this episode is about an intriguing question: what if you could make product and business skills that you could load into the same code tools you use as builders? Product and business judgement skills that could guide you on whether you should even build something? How do you choose which feature is worth your time? Does it solve a sharp problem? Well, we built some of those skills for you some are even derived from our book https://a.co/d/0gSKmw8g . And we’re building more. Subscribe to substack.productmind.co http://substack.productmind.co to stay abreast and monitor drops. Resources: Check out Aakash’s podcast https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiLzV1gFMrI .Check out the skills repo https://github.com/ojiudezue/productmind-skills on GitHub. Please leave a star if you find it useful.Check out the Shipyard https://skills.productmind.co/ , our product skills chat engine. No need to use Claude Code; just ask it. Bookmark it. Report bugs.Subscribe to our ProductMind Substack https://substack.productmind.co . Get the latest insight on how to navigate AI as a builder or PM. You’ll thank us later.Subscribe to our un-podcast https://www.youtube.com/@ProductMindX . It’s come out of our weekly meetings and is always unfiltered.Check out other projects https://labs.productmind.co/ . We keep adding more. Bookmark it About Oji & ProductMind: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tedsensei is an AI consulting practice that helps companies be more AI-native. The partners are Oji Udezue https://ojiudezue.com/ , Ezinne Udezue https://ezinneudezue.com/ and Ted Yang https://www.linkedin.com/in/tedsensei . We have a Productmind Network, full of CPOs, CTOs, and other seasoned operators and Product Consultants who will effectively drive the change you need at this critical time in technology. You can reach out at https://productmind.co or email us at hello@productmind.co We’ve done many things at this point in our evolution, but at heart we’re Product Managers. We even wrote the book that we wish we had when we were still in the middle of our careers - Building Rocketships https://a.co/d/0gSKmw8g it’s good, get it