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…Let's actually make it even more real, what are some tools you use in your PM work to be more efficient and productive? I'm obsessed with Cursor, I'm obsessed with Replit. These are tools I use all the time to just really build a prototype and try to understand myself what's possible. That is super enabling for a product manager to show up with a functional prototype. It's not going to be the thing you go and ship in production, but at least the buttons work and maybe it's wired up reasonably correctly to tell a story. There's a really great tool, a lot of folks might be familiar with Vercel if you're trying to create a landing page. So Vercel now has a starting point called v0, which allows you to type in a prompt and get a really beautiful landing page on top of that. And it doesn't have to be just a landing page, if you prompt it correctly and iterate with it, you could actually get a pretty good working UI as well. So I think that gives you a good starting point for some of those initial mock-ups you might be having with the design team. I also think if you're designing interfaces, you might want to use AI for graphic design. Perhaps you're trying to come up with a logo or you're trying to come up with something that resembles almost like the user story you want to tell in some way and make it like a visual user story. I think that becomes so much more approachable with tools like Midjourney, or even DALL-E and it's really at your fingertips to how well can you prompt this thing to get you the output that you want. So to me, it really depends. I think if you're an experiences company, you might trend a little bit more visual tools, like image generation might be really powerful too. So that's one example. And then I think even for 3D modeling, there's some emerging tools there. I'm definitely not the expert on that domain, but there's a lot in terms of if you're building physical products, that's gotten a lot easier as well. Okay, awesome. I want to come back to where we started here. So you've shared three types of AI product managers. We've been focusing on the third, which I wanted to get to and I love that we went there, which is just how to be more productive, efficient, better as a PM using all these amazing tools that now exist. The first two are, just to refresh folks' memory, one is becoming basically an infrastructure PM. That's something that you're doing, basically building the base models and tools. And then the other is building the UX and actual consumer experience of a product that happens to integrate AI to make it better. So I'm guessing when people think AI PM, that's probably where they're like, I want to build products that deeply integrate AI. For people that want to say pivot their career to be an AI PM, what helped you move in that direction/what would you recommend folks try to do and learn to be able to get a job in one of those two buckets?…

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