Why Fewer Senior PMs Might Beat Any Ratio, and Perplexity Goes Multiplayer
AI PM Research
Sunday, August 2, 2026
Why Fewer Senior PMs Might Beat Any Ratio, and Perplexity Goes Multiplayer
Perplexity's Computer product just became a multiplayer agentic OS with persistent memory and shared sessions, which is a bigger product leap than a typical feature drop. Meanwhile, a CPO at Whatnot is making the case that the whole PM org model is broken, and Lenny published it. Both items are pointing at the same underlying tension: what does a PM actually do when AI handles more of the execution?
Also today
- Perplexity / Aravind Srinivas
- Simon Willison
- Figma Make
- AWS / Amazon Bedrock
- Lenny's Newsletter
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