When AI Makes Engineering Too Fast for Product Teams | Oji Udezue (ex-Typeform & Calendly)

On today’s episode of LaunchPod, we’ve got something special for you. Normally, you’d have to join us in person at one of the dinners we host for product leaders to hear this talk from Oji Udezue. But the response has been so great, we had to bring him onto the show again.

Oji has previously held product leadership roles at Typeform, Twitter, Calendly, and Atlassian. Today, he’s joining us to share a major problem in product delivery that he’s seeing as AI adoption increases across teams.

In this episode, we discuss:

• The “three-speed problem,” as Oji calls it – how AI will bring about a 10x increase in engineering velocity. But where does that leave product management and go-to-market teams if they can’t keep up?
• Why AI is a BS term, as it’s really five new AND distinct capabilities – and how to use those as a framework for smarter product strategy
• And how his “shipyard model” for product teams will ensure you keep up and thrive, even as AI reshapes how we build software

Links

Oji’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ojiudezue/
ProductMind: https://www.productmind.co/
Building Rocketships: Product Management for High-Growth Companies: https://www.productmind.co/building-rocketships-book

Resources

Oji’s past LaunchPod episode: https://www.productmind.co/building-rocketships-book
Claude: https://claude.ai/
Cursor: https://cursor.com/
Windsurf: https://windsurf.com/

Chapters

00:00 Introduction
1:21 Building Rocket Ships by Oji and Ezinne Udezue
1:55 What is the shipyard model in product?
5:20 The evolution of technology: Why AI is just a new technology level
7:50 The 5 flavors of AI
13:23 The limiting function of development is no longer the speed of engineering – but what is it now?
17:05 Solving the three-speed problem
21:32 Conclusion

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Special Guest: Oji Udezue.