Practitioners in Lenny's members-only Slack are debating five operational problems that define product work in 2025: AI doomerism as a career planning variable, discovery velocity inside large organizations, and how new PMs without engineering backgrounds can verify technical answers they receive from their teams.
The analytics discussion is worth the full read on its own. The community identifies specific workflow stages where data adds signal versus where it creates noise, a distinction most teams get wrong and pay for in delayed decisions and misread roadmaps.
The AI doomerism thread is not philosophical hand-wringing. Members are treating it as a concrete input to hiring, tooling, and 12-month roadmap bets. Read it to see how working product teams are actually pricing existential risk into near-term plans.
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