How the Best PMs Use AI to Think Through Problems, Not Just Build Screens
AI tools jump straight to generating screens, so PMs skip the thinking that should come first. The best PMs flip the sequence. They use AI to explore the problem space before building anything asking who the user is, what job they’re trying to do, what’s blocking them, and what assumptions might be wrong. They generate multiple solution approaches, compare tradeoffs, and only then commit to a design. This “problem-first” workflow avoids building the wrong thing fast and ends up shipping the right thing sooner.
