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How to validate product ideas | Marily Nika, AI PM Bootcamp

If you skip product validation, you build the wrong product. From the AI PM Bootcamp's first session, Validate a Product Opportunity: Marily Nika on finding problems worth solving with AI. The shiny object trap, five key questions to ask, mining Reddit and Answer the Public, enterprise-to-niche and country-to-country idea angles, and why you should not go straight to building. 0:00 Emergent abilities: what bigger models unlock 0:46 AI hardware examples: ring, pin, necklace, glasses, plushie 1:27 Everything is already invented? It's just marketing 2:06 Don't start with the tech: the shiny obje

Why AI on its own is not a product | Marily Nika, AI PM Bootcamp

AI on its own is not a product. From the AI PM Bootcamp's first session, Validate a Product Opportunity: Marily Nika on the gap between a technology and a product, the story of joining Google's speech team, and the AI, Algorithms & Applications Map, so PMs start from the user problem and walk backwards, not from the algorithm. 0:00 AI on its own is not a product 0:09 Joining Google's speech team: what do we do with this? 1:02 The AI, Algorithms & Applications Map 1:59 PMs don't start from the middle: walk backwards from the user problem 2:46 Use cases haven't changed, the way we solve them ha

AI PM Bootcamp - September 2026 - Orientation

0:00 Welcome: where everyone's dialing in from 0:45 Meet Marily: from a machine learning PhD to PM at Google 2:53 Google Speech and the mic that launched Google Assistant 5:03 Amazon Alexa and building AI for hardware 6:44 From Facebook to founding the AI Product Academy 7:47 How this cohort works 8:19 Fellows vs Bootcamp, and your course calendar 9:48 Today's first session: validate a product opportunity 10:22 AI life cycle basics, and why to stay tool agnostic 12:20 Guest instructors: quality, agentic AI, MCP and evals 13:00 1:1 mentors and engineering time 14:11 By the end: capstone, pitch

AI PM Flashcard #4: How do you know if your AI feature is actually good?

A strong AI PM should be able to move from failure modes → evals → thresholds → product metrics → launch decision.

How to build your portable context

We keep designing AI products as if users are monogamous with their AI.. They're not.

AI PM Flashcard #3: Where Should AI Actually Be in the Product?

Just because AI can do something doesn’t mean it should.

Apple’s vision intelligence gave me nutritional info on my pizza 🍕

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AI PM Flashcard #2: When Is It Safe to Ship Hallucinations?

Ship/no-ship depends on consequence, detectability and recovery

AI PM Flashcard #1: Minimum Viable Quality (MVQ)

Hi everyone,

The Omarchy Bootcamp is here. How to get started this weekend (and why should you care?)

This is the agentic OS everyone's talking about, what it actually is, and how to get started this weekend.

Meet our AI PM Academy’s Faculty!

Unlimited learning from the people building at the frontier. Plus a Mac Mini for everyone!

Your demo is not a product.

𝗣𝗿𝗼𝘁𝗼𝘁𝘆𝗽𝗲 ≠ 𝗠𝗩𝗣

AI Product Management ≠ AI for Product Management.

My most famous prediction in 2022 that all Product Managers will be AI Product Managers came true... but I got one thing wrong.

Announcing AI PM Interview Masterclass with Lewis Lin & Marily Nika

Here's why this course needed to exist.

You’re invited to my AI Builder fellowship: 8 Certifications (including my Stanford in-person course), a MacBook Neo, 1:1 Support & Meetups

Hi! I am holding a spot for you.

Loop engineering is your new job: how to design for silence | Hermes Agent: Free lesson to see it's full potential

A few months back, I was talking to the head of product at a mid-stage AI company.

Prompt Engineering Is Dead. Good.

Here's what actually matters now

Hermes Agent – A PM's Field Guide and how to set up | Hermes Agent Certification

In February 2026, a small research lab called Nous Research shipped an open-source project built on a primary premise: what if your AI got smarter the longer you used it?

We’re a Webby Honoree! | Why the AI-Native PM doesn’t wait | Train your team

Private Sale

What you build doesn't need to be important | #1 AI PM Certification private sale

Does what you build need to be important before it’s worth building?

Sponsorship Options

Partner with me

10 Lessons Learnt Setting Up OpenClaw | Celebrating my Webby Nominations & New Courses

I woke up to some surreal news.

Why is a burrito bot writing code?

and what Garry Tan is doing about it

Openclaw Masterclass of PMs (and how to get a mac mini shipped to you)

Your AI teammate is already waiting, you just haven’t set it up yet

That weird, modern anxiety of building with AI.

and how the free Mac Mini we will send you will help

If Everyone Can Execute Fast, What’s Your Edge?

I𝚏 𝚎𝚟𝚎𝚛𝚢𝚘𝚗𝚎 𝚌𝚊𝚗 𝚎𝚡𝚎𝚌𝚞𝚝𝚎 𝚏𝚊𝚜𝚝𝚎𝚛, 𝚠𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚊𝚌𝚝𝚞𝚊𝚕𝚕𝚢 𝚋𝚎𝚌𝚘𝚖𝚎𝚜 𝚢𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝚎𝚍𝚐𝚎?

A Claude Masterclass for Busy Mind

How to use Claude to reduce mental load and get unstuck https://marily.substack.com/p/a-claude-masterclass-for-busy-mind?utm_source=youtube Join the next AI PM Bootcamp cohort: https://maven.com/marily-nika/ai-pm-bootcamp?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=description

A Claude Masterclass for your Busy Mind

Watch now | How to use Claude to reduce mental load and get unstuck

𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗧𝗿𝘂𝗲 𝗔𝗚𝗜 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗠𝗲𝗮𝗻𝘀 — 𝗔𝗰𝗰𝗼𝗿𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗼 𝗗𝗲𝗺𝗶𝘀 𝗛𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗮𝗯𝗶𝘀 (𝗲𝘅𝗰𝗹𝘂𝘀𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝘃𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗼 from Google I/O)

You need to watch this. I took this video at Google I/O as Demis Hassabis redefined the goal for AGI. He explained why today's AI, while impressive, doesn't meet the bar for "true AGI." He said that true AGI actually needs: ✨A Higher Bar: Not just mimicking what most humans can do, but possessing the architectural depth to rival minds like Einstein and Mozart. ✨Radical Consistency: An AI so advanced it would take expert teams months—not minutes—to find a flaw. ✨This distinction between a "capable" system and a "truly general" one is critical as we navigate the next wave of innovation. I

Entire concert (video & audio) generated with VEO 3 🤯

Wow. Just wow 🤯 I just created an entire concert—video and music—using AI. My very first dive into AI filmmaking, and I’m genuinely stunned. This came fresh off the energy of seeing Coldplay at Stanford last week, I prompted Veo 3 to generate a concert filled with infectious enthusiasm—and it delivered. This is also amazing from a technical standpoint: thousands of AI-generated people moving in sync with the music, each with unique movements, layered background noise, and audio that’s virtually indistinguishable from a real live show. This was all powered by Veo 3, and honestly, it feels lik

AI vs. Earthquakes near Santorini: What OpenAI's Deep Research Predicts for the 380 earthquake swarm

An area in Greece has increased seismic activity (380!) in recent days, so I decided to analyze the data using OpenAI’s Deep Research and get its take. After ~15 minutes of processing, the tool presented two possible outcomes: 🔹 A 6.0+ earthquake within the next 3–7 days (35–45% probability) 🔹 The swarm subsiding without a major event (55–65% probability) "The next 3–7 days are crucial for monitoring seismic activity" While this experiment was fascinating, I want to emphasize that I do not trust or recommend using AI tools for safety-critical decisions. When it comes to earthquakes and disas

Got access to OpenAI's Operator. My reaction using it for the 1st time to make dinner reservations

Got access to OpenAI's Operator! I recorded while trying it for the 1st time - just made a dinner reservation. Pretty amazing. Thoughts: ✨ I really enjoyed not having to do the groundwork like searching for the restaurant, inputting the details ✨ This basically has a model that combines multimodal capabilities with mouse and keyboard control to act on your behalf ✨ There’s a built-in browser so you can see what Operator is doing in real time. I also liked that I could take control or hand it back whenever I wanted. ✨ It was slower than I expected, but honestly, that didn’t bother me much—it

Olympics 2024: Olympic Anthem / Hymn English Subtitles - Paris Opening Ceremony audio

The Olympic Hymn is so powerful and sacred that I wanted to translate it from Greek to English for the Olympics 2024. This video is for everyone who might be wondering about the meaning and significance of this majestic hymn. Enjoy the translation and feel the spirit of the Olympics! The Olympic Hymn, also known informally as the Olympic Anthem, is a choral cantata by opera composer Spyridon Samaras, with lyrics by Greek poet Kostis Palamas. Both poet and composer were the choice of the Greek Demetrius Vikelas, who was the first President of the International Olympic Committee. The anthem by

Chris Martin spoke greek last night & we lost our mind 💙🇬🇷 #coldplayathens #coldplay #chrismartin

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Mixed Reality for Piano Learning on Vision Pro

I've been playing the piano for 25+ years. I went through very traditional training (= not fun), and I now started to explore new ways to getting my kids excited about music, without the the non-fun parts. I tried out this experience on Apple's Vision Pro and was mind-blown. It only took 5'' of calibration for the headset to map the physical environment and detailed mapping of my piano's width to ensure that every digital note displayed aligned perfectly with the corresponding keys. This guided my hands with visual cues. 𝗪𝗵𝘆 𝗶𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗠𝗶𝘅𝗲𝗱 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆? It's actually MR rather

Open AI's text to video model is mind blowing

How good could Text-to-Video be, you may wonder? ...This good. This video is 100% generated. 🐶 This is OpenAI's Sora, an AI model that can create realistic and imaginative scenes from text. "It uses the recaptioning technique from DALL·E 3, which involves generating highly descriptive captions for the visual training data". I will definitely use this for product demos, training materials for my courses and also content on LinkedIn. ----------------- https://marily.substack.com/ Join the next AI PM Bootcamp cohort: https://maven.com/marily-nika/ai-pm-bootcamp?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium

🚨 Preparing for PM Interviews? Announcing my 2 GPTs 🤖

𝗣𝗠 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝘁 𝗦𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗲 𝗚𝗣𝗧 💡 & 𝗣𝗠 𝗔𝗻𝗮𝗹𝘆𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 / 𝗘𝘅𝗲𝗰𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗚𝗣𝗧 🔢 ✨ Tailored to Big Tech Product Sense-type & Analytical/Execution-type PM interviews, these GPTs generate questions & ideal responses to random / your own questions (with a focus on AI-powered solutions for Product Sense and with an actual mock). ✨ The purpose is to help people preparing for PM interviews to not waste time online looking for sample questions & great answers. Instead, you spend your time getting exposed to new ideas & ways of approaching problems - at scale. ✨ I trained these

Introducing my AI Product Management Bootcamp - since 2022!

Just a little intro video about me and my work 🤖 Sign-up to my AI PM Newsletter https://marily.substack.com 🎓 Join my next AI PM Bootcamp cohort: https://maven.com/marily-nika/ai-pm-b... 📸 Instagram: www.instagram.com/marilynika 🐦 Twitter: www.twitter.com/marilynika 📚 All my AI PM courses: https://maven.com/marily-nika 🎥 YouTube channel: / marilynikapm 🤝 Coaching: https://bio.link/marilynika ✉️ Enquiries: hello@aiproduct.academy Join the next AI PM Bootcamp cohort: https://maven.com/marily-nika/ai-pm-bootcamp?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=description

Unboxing Bose QuietComfort / QC Ultra. Is Active Noise Cancellation AI? (Sandstone color)

Get yours at: https://amzn.to/3NEwYEK As part of my love for AI-powered gadgets I'm unboxing my new Bose QuietComfort Ultra Headphones and I'm discussing their standout feature: Active Noise Cancellation (ANC) and whether it uses AI. Subscribe to my newsletter: https://marily.substack.com/

1-1 with Blake Lively 🤯 #ai #productmanagement #deepfake

Announcing my custom OpenAI GPT: AIProductGPT! 🚨🤖

This adds AI in your product, produces a PRD & actual mocks 🤯 I spent all night testing this out, and I am mind-blown by how well it works. Product Management & Spec writing for AI features will never be the same. ✨ AIProductGPT was trained by a ton of books I uploaded around AI/ML Algorithms, System Architecture as well as Roadmapping, best PM practices and problem solving. ✨ I taught it to always introduce & brainstorm features around AI - suggestion, recommendation, content generation, matching, automation, scaling. ✨ I provided my custom AI PRD template so it knows how to craft