Why It Doesn’t Matter for Product Management Whether the AI Bubble Bursts
The skeptics are right. The AI hype bubble will burst. That part is easy to predict.
The billion-dollar valuations for wrapper apps will pop. These tools put a pretty skin on a generic chat bot. They don't have your data, they don't know your workflow, and they don't solve your problems better than other generic AI tools. They are just a novelty.
But here is the truth: The internet was a bubble in 2000, too. The stock prices crashed, but the internet didn't go away. It just stopped being a novelty and started being infrastructure. The same thing will happen to AI.
As a Product Owner, you shouldn't care about the AI stock market. You should care about where you are stuck and where AI can help you save time.
If your developers are using AI to write code faster than ever, but you are still manually wrestling with Jira tickets and outdated documentation, you will become the bottleneck.
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That bottleneck shows up every day:
- Refinements take longer than they should.
- Developers ask the same questions again and again.
- Tickets wait in the backlog because no one has time to clean them up.
The bubble is about money. Using AI for product management tasks is about leverage.
You can wait for the bubble to burst. But while you wait, other Product Teams who use AI efficiently will be six sprints ahead of you.
Don't trade on the hype. Build on the utility.
