You Don’t Need an “AI Stack” as a Product Manager
The Spring 2026 YCombinator “Requests for Startups” included a particular prompt I giggled about for a second: “Cursor for Product Managers”. After this request was published, a former co-worker approached me with an interview request about how I, as a product manager, use agentic coding. I agreed, and, after I answered some questions, he revealed that he was doing customer interviews for this YC request.
With a heavy heart, I had to tell him that at the company where I worked, Cursor already was the “Cursor for Product Managers”, and Claude Code was the Claude Code for product managers. If anything, this YC request read to me as an attempt to grab some quick cash before PMs shake off their omnipresent impostor syndrome and realize they can use the same general-purpose agentic coding tools the engineers use.
With the introduction of agentic AI and the hard skill barrier between...
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