Learning Product Through Building and Shipping
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This year I transitioned from marketing to product. The best way to learn product is to build and ship products. Not listening to podcasts about building products. Not watching tutorials. Not attending bootcamps or business school classes. What I love about AI coding tools is that they let me learn this way. In the past, to ship a real product, you needed to hire a team, raise money, find engineers. Now it takes an idea, time with AI coding tools, and putting it in front of people who will actually use it. In a few months, I've made dozens of prototypes, shipped a side project in actual production, and learned what kinds of ideas resonate with real users. Every project is a data point that trains your intuition: "if I ship this, people will behave that way." That's product sense. You can't get it from a book or a class. AI has been the best tutor for me not because it teaches me information, but because it lowered the barrier to hands-on execution. The best way to learn anything is to actually do it.