A Conversation with Product Leader Marily Nika

AI has led us to this amazing inflection point where all of the old habits of product development and product management need to be rethought. As Google’s Marily Nika predicts, “All product managers will be AI product managers in the future.” So we need to plan for it now.On this episode of Live with Tim O’Reilly, Marily sat down with Tim to discuss how AI is fundamentally transforming product management, touching on emerging roles like AI engineers and agent engineers, the importance of human judgment in an AI-powered world, and practical workflows for rapid prototyping using AI tools like Perplexity, custom GPTs, and v0. They also explored the balance between leveraging AI’s capabilities and avoiding the “shiny object trap” of using AI for its own sake rather than solving real customer problems; discussed some tips for prospective PMs interesting in focusing on AI within their specific domains; and considered whether using AI is “cheating”—and why companies would do well to build more community around AI use.For more highlights, check out Tim’s takeaways from the event on O’Reilly Radar.