🏷️ #2026 (2 articles)

By early 2026, product management has entered the Agentic AI era. This comprehensive report analyzes the transformation from vibe coding to autonomous agents, examining synthetic user research, agentic workflows, and the evolution of Product Managers into AI Orchestrators. Discover how 85% of companies are customizing autonomous agents and the paradox of productivity gains concentrated in routine tasks while strategic work remains elusive.

This comprehensive analysis examines two dominant methodologies in autonomous software engineering: the Ralph Wiggum Loop (brute-force execution pattern) and Open Spec (structured requirements framework). Discover how these approaches address LLM limitations like "Context Rot" and the "Dumb Zone," and their role in the emerging "Autonomous Stack" that is reshaping software development in 2026.