{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Learning Curve","title":"AI in product management: When saying no is the right call","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1827,"description":"Every product manager eventually learns to catch the AI project that isn't worth building before it gets expensive.\nIn this episode, hosts Matt Sharp and Holly Fake are joined by Technical Strategist and product leader Victoria Ragulina to talk about what happens when a product manager decides to learn AI properly, rather than pick it up as they go. Victoria walks through the formal AI courses she's taken, including one where she built her own agentic AI product from scratch, a tool that prices original artwork by scraping market data and asking a few questions about medium and size.\nVictoria explains how that same instinct shows up in her day-to-day work, including why \"should we even use AI for this\" has become her first question, how the hidden backend costs of an AI feature are easy to miss until it's too late, and how she builds guardrails into chatbots so end users know when an answer might be wrong. She also shares the personal AI agent she built to solve a very unglamorous problem.\nThe real lesson isn't what AI can do for you. It's how quickly you learn to catch the moment it shouldn't be the one doing the work.\n00:00 Introduction\n01:03 From product manager to AI power user\n03:37 Taking AI courses through Maven\n05:36 Pricing art with AI\n07:13 Picking the right tools\n08:42 The new first question from product managers\n12:12 Why AI can't replace a trained expert\n16:13 Unpredictable AI questions\n21:11 Guardrails for AI answers\n24:18 The summer camp agent\n28:05 Key takeaways\nSubscribe to the Learning Curve for real conversations about AI at work, AI implementation, and what it actually looks like to build with AI inside a technology company.\nLearn more about Flexion: https://flexion.us/\nFollow Flexion on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/flexion-inc\nSubscribe to our channel: https://www.youtube.com/@FlexionInc","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/Id5sexIY2PzW_KAC-E5HwLHHwwCEp3KaFjCPvhhr-Qk/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9jYjc1/ODMwMmVkNDQ4ODk1/OGM4NmY3ZDAyNWZl/NDVkNi5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}