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Listen: Building AI product sense, part 2

February 10, 2026·22 min·3-min readsolotechnology
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AI product sense is becoming a core skill for product managers, centered on understanding AI's failure modes, defining minimum viable quality (MVQ), and designing guardrails to ensure trustworthy user experiences. A simple weekly ritual of stress-testing models with messy, ambiguous, and

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