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A Concrete Definition of “Product Sense” (and How to Build It)
As AI takes over more execution work, product sense—the ability to decide what to build—is becoming increasingly valuable, but it requires more than consuming product critiques, research, and industry knowledge. Strong product sense develops by repeatedly completing the full product cycle: understanding problems, making decisions, implementing solutions, measuring outcomes, and reflecting on whether experience-based patterns actually applied. Building reliable intuition therefore requires staying close enough to your work to see its consequences, while recognizing when unfamiliar or misleading situations demand evidence rather than instinct.
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