The future of product management🔮, paperclip-punk📎, the state of AI🌍

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Sign Up |Advertise|View Online TLDR Together With TLDR Product Management 2025-12-05 Enterprise-grade or and enterprising solutions (Sponsor) With Marqeta, launch payments experiences without choosing between innovation and scale. Marqeta combines the scale and reliability of proven payments infrastructure with the flexibility and innovation of a modern platform—so you can move faster, reduce risk, and grow with confidence. From optimizing spend and cash flow to building seamless, rewards-driven customer experiences, Marqeta's solutions have you covered. When it comes to issuing and processing payments, don't sacrifice. Get the best of both worlds with Marqeta, and see what's possible. Learn more > 📱 News & Trends Toward a Working Definition of Paperclip-Punk (8 minute read) Paperclip-punk, a new AI-era aesthetic, is marked by clean, interactive, blueprint-like web design that reflects growing machine agency. It represents a shift toward interfaces that teach and respond. While defining it gives the movement clarity, it may also make it easier for AI to replicate and absorb. AI, networks, and Mechanical Turks (5 minute read) LLMs let companies borrow intent-level understanding instead of building it, changing how recommendation and discovery systems start, scale, and shape what people see. 🚀 Opinions & Tutorials Stop talking about your impact. Start spotlighting theirs (10 minute read) Recognizing others is the most authentic form of self-advocacy. You elevate everyone, including yourself, when you share specific wins, link them to strategy, and run internal launches that spotlight team contributions. Why Great Executives Must Still Do the Work (2 minute read) Leaders who stop doing the work lose the sharpness that made them leaders in the first place. In the AI era, staying hands-on is a competitive advantage. 🧑‍💻 Resources & Tools How to create a great digital onboarding experience, even in highly regulated industries (Sponsor) Frictionless signup is not always simple - but making your onboarding more user-friendly is always going to be a competitive advantage. This guide by Persona explains how you can use passive, risk-based signals to determine which types of verifications to employ, reduce onboarding friction, and increase conversion rates. Get your copy now → The State of AI (54 minute read) LLMs are used across many tasks, with open models gaining ground and programming and roleplay leading demand. Capabilities, not price, drive adoption. Breakthrough models often form uniquely loyal early user groups. How To Ask for Support from Senior Leaders (4 minute read) Senior leaders' offers to help are genuine, and asking for support is a core leadership skill. Knowing when to ask and what type of help you need can speed up decisions, strengthen alignment, and raise your profile. 🎁 Miscellaneous So What's Going to Happen to Product Management Anyway? (12 minute read) AI-native companies need fewer PMs, but the PMs who stay will be closer to the product, move faster, and operate with stronger technical and alignment skills. The winners will be builders who ship quickly, guide teams through ambiguity, and adapt to a new pace of work. Why local tech scenes have changed (10 minute read) AI reshuffled local tech. Top talent either move to SF or build solo, leaving local scenes as communities of independent creators rather than traditional startup pipelines. ⚡ Quick Links Tired of AI-washing? TestNitro delivers 100% test coverage with humans firmly in the loop (Sponsor) QualityLogic's fully managed test service delivers 100% automatable coverage in weeks. Human-verified bugs. Tests written in Playwright (you own them). Priced for results. Watch a demo or try the ROI calculator An outbound playbook for 2025 (12 minute read) Modern outbound wins by combining AI-scored ICPs with layered signals and human-personalized outreach, turning content engagement into the engine of a unified GTM flywheel. Failure as a Feature, Not a Bug (4 minute read) Growth depends on risk-taking, and teams thrive when leaders normalize failure and create psychological safety. Love TLDR? Tell your friends and get rewards! Share your referral link below with friends to get free TLDR swag! https://refer.tldr.tech/b3142ada/9 Track your referrals here. Want to advertise in TLDR? 📰 If your company is interested in reaching an audience of product management professionals and decision makers, you may want to advertise with us. Want to work at TLDR? 💼 Apply here or send a friend's resume to jobs@tldr.tech and get $1k if we hire them! If you have any comments or feedback, just respond to this email! Thanks for reading, Ellen Le Manage your subscriptions to our other newsletters on tech, startups, and programming. Or if TLDR Product Management isn't for you, please unsubscribe.