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The Product Picnic

Writing on UX and product management to connect today's discourse with classic insights that the industry forgot.

Metrics and Data

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The glassholes are back, thanks to AI

Jun 21, 2026

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3 min read

The glassholes are back, thanks to AI

Recording people without consent — once seen as a brazen privacy violation — has become thoughtlessly routine, both in meetings and on the street.

Pavel Samsonov
Pavel Samsonov

Feedback Loops

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Feedback loops require real feedback. AI drives it underground.

Jun 13, 2026

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5 min read

Feedback loops require real feedback. AI drives it underground.

The methods we take for granted have load-bearing requirements that have already gone extinct in many organizations.

Pavel Samsonov
Pavel Samsonov

Feedback Loops

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Product teams struggled to create intent. AI let them think they could skip it.

Jun 7, 2026

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3 min read

Product teams struggled to create intent. AI let them think they could skip it.

Don't mistake product delivery for the finish line. It's just the start of the race.

Pavel Samsonov
Pavel Samsonov

Problem Design

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The future of UX design is not a higher-velocity version of its present

May 31, 2026

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6 min read

The future of UX design is not a higher-velocity version of its present

Scaling the rate at which we fiddle around the edges of a system will never translate into meaningful transformation of that system.

Pavel Samsonov
Pavel Samsonov

Problem Design

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AI is not the future of software development, but the last dying gasp of the past

May 23, 2026

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6 min read

AI is not the future of software development, but the last dying gasp of the past

The industry has been building careers and business models around solving the very problems it created. But the conditions that once made this possible are breaking down.

Pavel Samsonov
Pavel Samsonov

LLMs

The newest term in the AI lexicon is "interpassivity"

May 10, 2026

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3 min read

The newest term in the AI lexicon is "interpassivity"

The industry is reorienting around software that uses itself. But giving ourselves permission to lean back and relax merely indulges an old and toxic tendency.

Pavel Samsonov
Pavel Samsonov
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