LaunchDarkly's approach to AI-powered product management
A conversation with Claire Vo, Chief Product Officer of LaunchDarkly, about the changing role of product managers, her anti-to-do list, and building AI-native teams.
A conversation with Claire Vo, Chief Product Officer of LaunchDarkly, about the changing role of product managers, her anti-to-do list, and building AI-native teams.
arXiv:2606. 27960v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Software engineering is an intellectually demanding, creative discipline that juggles a web of interdependent tasks to design, build, and assure the quality of increasingly complex systems.
arXiv:2606. 15575v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Organizational knowledge is fragmented across a variety of software systems, tacit expertise, and manual documents that have traditionally been designed for human consumption.
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arXiv:2608. 07504v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We propose a human bottleneck perspective for understanding how generative AI transforms the innovation process.
The paper examines how a large embedded systems company is transitioning to an AI‑first organization, focusing on the role of autonomous AI agents in software engineering. Through a mixed‑method study involving 40 workshop participants—scrum masters, architects, managers, and product owners—the authors identify expected impacts on team structure, required competencies, organizational strategies, and developer roles. The study concludes with a concrete roadmap and discusses implications for federated AI team formation, human‑in‑the‑loop practices, and sustainable AI adoption in embedded software engineering.
The paper reports a case study on using AI agents to assist engineers in programming industrial robots. The agent did not increase productivity overall, except for generating highly repetitive code, but its effectiveness improved as engineers learned to use it and the agent was adapted to the domain. The study highlights that AI agents are not plug‑and‑play; successful adoption requires training, a learning curve, and domain‑specific configuration.
arXiv:2606. 05178v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As AI-driven product development accelerates, the bottleneck is shifting from how we build to what we build.
arXiv:2610.02631v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Post-deployment feedback from users can be a cost-effective, scalable, and representative means to monitor and improve generative AI systems and featur...
JetBrains uses OpenAI’s API to build its fastest-growing product ever.
The paper introduces a production-ready framework that connects e‑commerce search and CRM systems via AI‑powered Product Research Agents. These agents detect users with exploratory purchase intent, perform multi‑agent research using behavioral data, external knowledge, and catalog information, and then send personalized product recommendations through WhatsApp. In a 23‑day deployment, the system sent about 15,000 notifications, achieving higher click‑through rates than standard campaigns and generating downstream purchases and GMV gains.
The paper discusses recursive self‑improvement (RSI) for AI, describing how systems can use experience and feedback to make lasting enhancements to both their abilities and their future improvement processes. It introduces the Headroom‑Closed Index (HCI) to expose limitations in current large language models and outlines a development roadmap for RSI, progressing from autonomy in execution to full recursive meta‑improvement. The authors analyze RSI in various contexts such as scientific discovery, embodied intelligence, and software engineering, noting differing requirements and development speeds, and they connect RSI research to practical industry applications while highlighting key challenges to achieving genuine RSI.