Date: November 12, 2025
AI makes it easy to ship faster — but that’s exactly how product judgment erodes.
This gist gives you the opening section of the post so you can rethink how you build, especially if you’re vibecoding your way through features.
Ask ten people what product thinking means, and you’ll get twelve definitions.
Beyond the books, infographics, and frameworks, the best insight comes from founders who built things that survived contact with users. From watching how they product-think in motion:
- how they question their own logic,
- how they trade the cool for the useful,
- how they drop the ego to listen,
- how they stay deliberate when everything screams ship faster.
Today’s post comes from Orel, software engineer, founder of WriteStack, and a living proof that product thinking gets real only when you start building.
I’ve featured Orel before, and I keep following his work because he shares it with curiosity, honesty and the kind of humility that makes you pay attention. There’s a lot we can learn from his journey.
As I build WriteStack, I start with drafts vibecoded in Cursor, then I revise, polish and ship them.
One day I thought to myself: What if WriteStack had a ChatGPT inside, wired to data and context? That would be really cool.
I spent 20 minutes building a high quality prompt and 10 minutes later I had a chat feature working out of the box.
That was freaking crazy.
That was the high point of my enthusiasm for Cursor and for AI-assisted coding in general. What once took me days now takes just minutes, even for complex features.
But beneath the speed and ease of building with AI, there’s a side few people acknowledge.
The part that is much harder to build.
Your product thinking.
Product thinking = intentional product decision-making.
It’s making a deliberate, informed next move and evaluating not just if something should be built, but what it changes or disrupts within the overall system.
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Want to read the rest? The full post is here → Product Thinking at the Speed of AI
https://karozieminski.substack.com/p/product-thinking-at-the-speed-of-ai-actionable-insights-for-product-managers-builders-founders-vibecoders
#ProductThinking #AIForProductManagers #ProductStrategy #Vibecoding #AIAssistedCoding
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