Intelligence Track
25 May 2026
The Brief
AI tooling is quietly redrawing the boundary between design and product management — not by eliminating either role, but by making the handoff model look increasingly expensive compared to squads where one operator can prototype, specify, and synthesise research.
For teams like Cleartrip's, this is less a structural threat and more a prompt to decide deliberately: pilot a blended pod on one surface now, or wait until a competitor's faster iteration cadence makes the velocity gap visible in production.
Medium (Product Design) · 25 May 2026
An argument that AI tools are collapsing the traditional handoff between designers and PMs, with each role now able to do meaningful work in the other's territory — prototyping, spec writing, research synthesis. The piece frames the convergence as a net positive that rewards generalists and reshapes hiring expectations.
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