Habit Machine: AI Product Management · 2026-06-02 · 5 min
Episode 14: AI-Native Product Infrastructure | Habit Machine Podcast Why Artificial Intelligence Is Not a Feature Toggle - It Is the Infrastructure Every Modern PM Must Conduct Episode Overview Treating AI as a chatbot you bolt on is career suicide. It is infrastructure, not a gadget - like electricity, not a toaster. This episode maps the four capabilities that separate the AI-native product leader from the obsolete backlog administrator. Two Product Managers walk through conversational UX design, retrieval-augmented generation architecture, vibe coding as a validation weapon, and agent orchestration as the new choreography skill. The episode closes with a unified diagnostic: eight questions that reveal whether you are conducting infrastructure or just surviving a backlog.
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