2026-06-22
Becoming an AI-Era PM 03 | Treat AI as a Colleague, Not a Tool
This is the third piece in the series Becoming an AI-Era PM. Most people use AI like a vending machine: a sentence in, an answer out, and the next conversation starts the explanation over from scratch. The CEO of Relay.app said at an AI product leaders summit, "Stop treating AI as a tool — treat it like a colleague you hired." This piece skips the mindset talk and gives you four things you can actually do: write it a handoff doc, hand it a whole task with the boundaries nailed down, review its output the way you'd review a junior's PR, and write every correction back into the doc — with real example prompts.