Jaclyn Konzelmann+

Gemini 4 Argon and the New Era of What We Can Build

The ceiling just moved

The Agentic Shift: how to build products when AI can actually do things

My talk from The AI Conference, San Francisco, September 30, 2026. By the time the talk arrived, "can you build it" had stopped being the interesting question. Anything can be built now. So this is about what's worth building, and how to build it when every product has two users: the person, and the agent acting for them. Part one: three forces moving at once, and four pieces of advice. Push the frontier models. Strip the guardrails you built for last year's models. Keep the lessons, not the prototype. You still set the goal. Part two: anything a user can achieve, your agent should be able

How do you define taste? A salon in Seacliff | SF Tech Week

A salon-style discussion on taste at SF Tech Week, then a speakeasy. Ideas from the room: increase the surface area of luck, build taste through diversity, exposure and experimenting, and taste is in the edit, not the generation. What does taste mean to you? Tell me in the comments.

The Agentic Shift

My talk from The AI Conference, what the room was like, and the questions I’d take into Monday.

The Agentic Shift: how to build products when AI can actually do things

My talk from The AI Conference, San Francisco, September 30, 2026. By the time the talk arrived, "can you build it" had stopped being the interesting question. Anything can be built now. So this is about what's worth building, and how to build it when every product has two users: the person, and the agent acting for them. Part one: three forces moving at once, and four pieces of advice. Push the frontier models. Strip the guardrails you built for last year's models. Keep the lessons, not the prototype. You still set the goal. Part two: anything a user can achieve, your agent should be able

Can an agent do everything your users can? | The AI Conference 2026

One question every product team should be asking right now: can an agent do everything your users can? A day at The AI Conference 2026 at Pier 48 in San Francisco, where I gave my talk "The Agentic Shift: How to Build Products When AI Can Actually Do Things." When making things gets this cheap, the question isn't whether you can build it anymore. It's what's actually worth building. Every product now has two users: people, and agents. What's your answer? Tell me in the comments. More AI and product thinking every week in Thursday Thoughts on AI. #AIAgents #ProductManagement #Shorts

What AI Didn't Make Cheap

A talk I gave to the YouTube Ads PMs, and the first thing I've written in a while.

What AI Didn't Make Cheap: How the PM job changed, and the products too

Generative AI made writing cheap. It made prototyping cheap. It made code cheap. What it didn't make cheap is good judgment. A talk I gave at the YouTube Ads PM Summit, September 2026, on how the job of the product manager has changed and how the products we build have changed with it: why I'd no longer write the PRD I was once proudest of, what I make instead (a one-page strategy doc, a deck, and a prototype), the overbuilding trap I fell into with my own side project, the three forces moving at once, why you now have two users (a human and an agent), and the three questions I ask about anyt

What My Week Actually Looks Like

A look inside my calendar as a Product Director building 0-to-1 at Google (and why a third of it is protected)

Creativity Doesn't Have a Finish Line

What a decade-old Google doc of salad recipes taught me about where creative projects go now.

The Overbuilding Trap

Is your simple MVP quietly becoming the bloated product it replaced?

Creativity at the Speed of Voice

How I built a mermaid game for my daughter...from my phone...one stolen moment at a time.

Your Resume Stopped Telling Me Who You Are

After 100+ applications, these three questions are helping me learn more than any bullet points ever could

Is It Real If No One Else Knows?

How can AI be used to foster human connection and make us feel less lonely?

Rethinking the AI PM Resume

The video and the lessons learned along the way

My Video Resume: 0-to-1 AI Product Builder

I'm hiring Product Managers for my team at Google Labs, and I'm asking candidates to send a short video that brings their resume to life. So I did the exercise myself first. This is what I've built, what I've launched, and how I think about 0-to-1 products in AI. Always building, always learning - and always interested in people who do the same.

What It Feels Like to Launch at Two Google Events in the Same Week

And what changes when someone else sets the deadline

10, 9, 8, 7, 6...

Five Days Until Google I/O

What's Standing Out in My AI PM Hiring Loop This Week

Notes from inside an active hiring process, with a fresh L7 role on the table.

Demis Hassabis and Garry Tan at YC: We're Still So Early

A fireside chat reminded me. A demo happy hour proved it. A sunset confirmed it.

The PRD I Was Proud Of (And Why I'd Never Write It Today)

Chapter 1 of The Builder's Compass - how AI makes us rethink the old playbook

What’s Your Time to Magic?

The metric I keep coming back to when a big vision is at risk of becoming a slow build.

Is Your Idea Big Enough? A Framework I Keep Coming Back To

Notes from my first ever Office Hours - and the question that kept finding me from every angle.

I Made AI Bingo Cards for Two Years. Then I Stopped.

What I learned - slowly - about the difference between predicting the future and navigating it.

I’m Writing a Book. Come Build It With Me.

A special Tuesday announcement - and I need your help with something at the end.

How I Stay on Top of Everything (The Honest Answer)

A Norwegian business student asked me last week. I finally have an answer I actually believe.

YC Demo Day W26: Back in the Room

A special edition of Thursday Thoughts on AI - from a 2013 YC founder, back at Demo Day for the first time

Ornicorns, Balloons, and One Very Capable AI Agent

How I went from party planning paralysis to invites in the inbox in a single afternoon.

Dispatches from the Agent Frontier

18 startup pitches, 5 key themes, and why the tech problem is now a product problem.

Covid Chronicles: 8 Months in Canada

It started as a drive across the country and into Canada - California to Toronto - for what was supposed to be 2 months. Somehow that turned into over 8 months. This is our story.

Pulse Demo v2

Now in California