A 15 minute weekly recap of product management news, technology updates, and advice for product builders, brought to you by the team at Mind the Product.
Claude can pass the coding interview. So how do you work out who to hire? One Anthropic engineering manager has stopped using traditional coding interviews for his team, arguing that they no longer tell him enough about candidates. He’s looking instead for prototypes that demonstrate taste, empathy and judgement. In this week’s Now Shipping, Mike Belsito explores what this means for product people. If AI can complete your take-home exercise or product case study, is your hiring process stil...
21 Oct 2026
How Anthropic’s agents work 6× more than humans
Six agent hours for every human hour. Seventeen engineers for every product manager. What happens when an AI company turns its own technology on the way it works? This week on Now Shipping, Mike Belsito breaks down Anthropic’s research into how Claude is changing its workforce, from hiring fewer junior technical employees to giving people their own teams of agents. But more output brings new demands. Agents wait for human input, employees spend more time in meetings, and reviewing everythin...
14 Oct 2026
Retailers are blocking AI shopping agents as Meta proposes new access rules
This week on Now Shipping, Mike Belsito explores why personal agents are getting stuck across the web, and what those failures reveal about the products we build. From Walmart’s checkout checks to Yelp’s paid access model, businesses are taking very different approaches to agent traffic. Sometimes, the decision comes down to a security setting nobody on the product team has reviewed. Mike also examines Wikimedia’s concerns about suspected OpenAI agent activity and the proposed Personal Agent ...
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