This week on How I AI: “PMs who use AI will replace those who don’t” with Marily Nika
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“PMs who use AI will replace those who don’t”: Google’s AI product lead on the new PM toolkit | Marily Nika
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Google AI Product Lead Marily Nika breaks down the exact end-to-end AI workflow she uses to dramatically speed up her product development—from mining Reddit debates for user insights with Perplexity, to generating PRDs with custom GPTs, to building interactive prototypes with v0, and even creating stakeholder-ready product videos using Flow and Sora. Using a smart-fridge concept as the thread through it all, Marily shows how “tool hopping” across specialized AI apps creates a compounding effect that turns weeks of PM work into about 20 minutes.
Biggest takeaways:
Create “pro” and “against” AI agents to debate your product idea. Instead of getting biased, agreeable responses from AI, prompt it to create two agents with opposing viewpoints on your product. Have them debate for 20 rounds, then extract the minimum feature set needed to convince the skeptical agent. This technique uncovers potential objections and helps you find product-market fit faster.
“Tool hopping” an end-to-end AI product workflow. Marily’s process moves from Perplexity (market research) to custom GPTs (PRD generation) to v0 (prototyping) to Flow/Sora (video creation). Each tool’s output becomes the input for the next, creating a seamless workflow that transforms an idea into a complete product vision.
“PMs who use AI will replace those who don’t.” AI isn’t replacing product managers, but PMs who leverage AI tools will outperform those who don’t. The productivity gap between AI power-users and non-users is growing rapidly, making AI literacy essential for career advancement in product management.
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