Choose the right thing
Discovery, positioning, and product judgment before anyone starts building.
Learning Paths
This page is for deciding what to learn next. Tools are here only when they help you choose, build, test, or ship better.
Discovery, positioning, and product judgment before anyone starts building.
Specs, tasks, context, and acceptance criteria that survive the handoff into code.
Evals, regression tests, tracing, and review gates for AI product quality.
Operator writing and product signals that help you decide what is worth learning next.
Full shelf: 43 useful paths and references
A practical pre-build checklist: user, workflow, riskiest assumption, edge cases, review gate, and kill condition.
ProductBuilders
How to brief coding agents, keep context tight, inspect diffs, and turn implementation into a learning loop.
ProductBuilders
Learn to choose the right thing before you build: customer trigger, current workaround, pain, and proof.
ProductBuilders
Design evals, regression checks, and review gates that match real user outcomes instead of demo scores.
ProductBuilders
Use events, funnels, cohorts, and qualitative notes to decide what to keep building, change, or kill.
ProductBuilders
Spec-driven workflow kit for turning specs into tasks and implementation slices.
GitHub
Guide to choosing eval methods and measuring model changes reliably.
OpenAI
Teresa Torres on continuous discovery habits, opportunity solution trees, and AI-augmented research.
Teresa Torres
A practical guide to building technology products customers love.
Marty Cagan
Delivery and planning methodology for product teams.
Basecamp
Docs for building tool-using agents, including guardrails and orchestration patterns.
OpenAI
Test and evaluate prompts and LLM apps with automated comparisons and CI integration.
promptfoo
Cohort course on designing evals that catch regressions and measure real user outcomes for AI products.
Maven
Multi-agent spec-driven development framework for orchestrating AI agents across the product lifecycle.
BMAD
Deep dives on engineering productivity, spec-driven development, and shipping with AI assistance.
Addy Osmani
Practical AI product workflows from opportunity framing to implementation.
DeepLearning.AI
Course covering production chat UX, streaming, tools, and deployment workflows.
Vercel Academy
Training tracks, bootcamps, and a community focused on becoming a product builder by shipping.
Builders Camp
Foundations for orchestrating LLM-based agents and workflows.
DeepLearning.AI
Memory and persistence patterns for agent state, checkpoints, and resumability.
LangGraph
Evaluation, tracing, and dataset workflows for LLM apps and agents.
LangChain
Tactical product and growth writing from experienced operators.
Lenny Rachitsky
Interviews with product leaders, founders, and builders.
Lenny Rachitsky
Official specification and guides for MCP, the open standard for connecting AI models to tools and data.
Anthropic
Open source framework for building and running LLM evaluations.
OpenAI
Spec-driven development framework for writing product specs that drive implementation.
OpenSpec
Advanced growth and product strategy frameworks with operator case studies.
Reforge
How product operating models and empowered teams change outcomes.
Marty Cagan
Weekly breakdowns of product growth mechanics, AI product trends, and operator playbooks.
Aakash Gupta
Cohort program focused on idea → spec → architecture → code → testing → deployment with AI.
Zenith Venture Studio
Cohort course for integrating AI into products with a practical playbook and peer network.
Colab Cohorts
Measurement strategy and product analytics training.
Amplitude
Cohort course teaching product managers to build and ship with Cursor and AI-native dev workflows.
Maven
Behavioral UX breakdowns and growth design case studies.
Growth.Design
Habit-forming product frameworks and examples.
Nir Eyal
Metric frameworks for startup and growth-stage decision making.
OReilly
Design memory strategies for agents and RAG systems (short-term + long-term patterns).
LlamaIndex
SQL fundamentals oriented around analytics questions.
Mode
UX research, interaction design, and usability foundations.
NN/g
Pawel Huryn's newsletter on modern product management, AI workflows, and builder mindset.
Pawel Huryn
Systems-level product strategy and outcome orientation.
Melissa Perri
Playbooks and discussions around product-led growth motions.
ProductLed
Hands-on SQL practice for product and analytics workflows.
SQLBolt