The End of Product Teams as We Know Them

🎙️ Listen on Spotify | Apple Podcasts | YouTubeI recently spoke with Maor Shlomo, founder of Base44—the platform that lets anyone build apps, tools, and games just by describing them to an AI. In six months, he built Base44 solo and sold it to Wix for $80M. It’s the clearest signal yet: the rules of building have changed, and most teams aren’t ready.We dug into:* Why vibe coding crushes the myth that innovation requires big teams and big funding.* How cross-domain generalists will thrive while narrow specialists get sidelined.* Why software that doesn’t become agent-driven will be left for dead.* The ruthless advantage of starting over quickly when the build cost is near zero.Maor’s blunt take: “If one person can go this far alone, do we need whole teams to achieve the same things?”🎧 Full episode: Listen on SpotifyThanks for reading Design of AI: Strategies for Product Teams & Agencies! This post is public so feel free to share it.The uncomfortable truth: Interfaces are vanishingVibe coding strips away menus, clicks, and UIs. You speak, and the machine builds. The UX profession must decide—adapt to this new layer of interaction, or watch relevance slip away.* Speak ideas, skip interfaces.* Abstraction layers are collapsing.* Creation is now a conversation.🔗 Read the full post on LinkedIn📅 AI Product Strategy Workshop — Register hereThis isn’t a “future of work” talk. It’s a hands-on reality check.* Spot where AI will gut existing workflows—and where the real opportunities lie.* Pressure test your product strategy against the agent-driven future.* Learn how to pivot faster than incumbents weighed down by legacy.If you think you can wait this out, you’ll already be too late.There’s a 2-for-1 deal right now using this link.* SSRN study: AI is already displacing workers across industries.* Challenger, Gray & Christmas: 10,000+ AI-driven layoffs in the first seven months of 2025.* World Economic Forum: up to 30% of U.S. jobs could be automated by 2030.* Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei: “Half of entry-level white-collar jobs may disappear, pushing unemployment to 10–20% within five years.” ([Axios](https://www.axios.com/2025/05/28/ai✍️ I recently published Navigating Contradictions: A Manifesto for Product Teams in an Era of Change.In it, I confront the contradictions head-on: speed vs. depth, AI optimism vs. ethical risk, innovation vs. trust. Teams that refuse to wrestle with these tensions won’t survive.Key line: “Product teams must learn to hold space for competing truths—where speed and discovery coexist with responsibility and depth.”🔗 Read the full article on MediumAgencies and consultancies have thrived on labor arbitrage. That arbitrage just died. As AI agents mature, they won’t just support consultants—they’ll cannibalize them. The uncomfortable truth: if your business model depends on armies of analysts or designers, you’re already obsolete.🔗 Read the full post on LinkedIn👉 What do you think?I’ll admit it: I once wrote vibe coding off as a gimmick. Now, I see it as the end of UI as we know it. Every interface has been an abstraction—an awkward compromise between human thought and digital execution. Those compromises are being stripped away at speed.The uncomfortable truth? The gap between an idea and a product is collapsing. That means fewer roles, fewer gatekeepers, and a brutal shift in how work gets done.Have you tried vibe coding? Does it excite you, scare you—or both? Reply and let’s talk. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit productimpactpod.substack.com