<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Products Decoded</title><description>Evergreen guides on building AI products, AI-native product management, and running your work on Claude agents. By Debashis Nayak.</description><link>https://productsdecoded.com/</link><item><title>The One-Line Bug That Convinced Me AI in Production Is a Product Job</title><link>https://productsdecoded.com/blog/ai-in-production-is-a-product-job/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://productsdecoded.com/blog/ai-in-production-is-a-product-job/</guid><description>A one-line config change killed every paid order on my busiest day. The real fix was a product decision, not a code one. What running AI in production actually takes.</description><pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>AI in production</category><category>product management</category><category>LLM</category><category>AI agents</category><category>AI product management</category></item><item><title>The Only Signal AI Can&apos;t Fake on LinkedIn Is Specificity</title><link>https://productsdecoded.com/blog/specificity-is-the-only-moat-left-on-linkedin/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://productsdecoded.com/blog/specificity-is-the-only-moat-left-on-linkedin/</guid><description>AI writes the posts and AI writes the comments. The one thing the loop can&apos;t produce is specificity, and it&apos;s the only edge a real creator has left on the feed.</description><pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>AI content</category><category>LinkedIn</category><category>content strategy</category><category>AI writing</category><category>personal brand</category></item><item><title>Everyone Is Vibe Coding. The First Paying Customer Is Still the Hard Part</title><link>https://productsdecoded.com/blog/everyone-is-vibe-coding-nobody-is-getting-paid/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://productsdecoded.com/blog/everyone-is-vibe-coding-nobody-is-getting-paid/</guid><description>Building has never been faster or cheaper. The monetization rate hasn&apos;t moved. Why the first paying customer is still the hard part, from someone who shipped 100+ products.</description><pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>vibe coding</category><category>AI products</category><category>monetization</category><category>startup</category><category>product-market fit</category></item><item><title>I Closed the Checkout Tab and Built My Own Dictation App With Gemma 3 1B</title><link>https://productsdecoded.com/blog/built-my-own-dictation-app-gemma-3-local/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://productsdecoded.com/blog/built-my-own-dictation-app-gemma-3-local/</guid><description>A 1-billion-parameter model running locally on an M1 MacBook cleaned up my transcriptions well enough to cancel a subscription. The build-vs-buy math for small AI tools just changed.</description><pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Gemma 3</category><category>local LLM</category><category>Apple Silicon</category><category>build vs buy</category><category>AI tools</category></item><item><title>The Founder Who Won&apos;t Use His Own Product Already Knows Why Customers Churn</title><link>https://productsdecoded.com/blog/use-your-own-product-or-you-already-know-the-answer/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://productsdecoded.com/blog/use-your-own-product-or-you-already-know-the-answer/</guid><description>If the person who built the product routes around its broken parts, they&apos;ve cut themselves off from the exact friction their users feel. On dogfooding, and why it&apos;s uncomfortable on purpose.</description><pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>dogfooding</category><category>product management</category><category>retention</category><category>SaaS</category><category>founder</category></item><item><title>How to Clone Your Voice Locally on a MacBook, for Free, With VoxCPM2</title><link>https://productsdecoded.com/blog/clone-your-voice-locally-free-voxcpm/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://productsdecoded.com/blog/clone-your-voice-locally-free-voxcpm/</guid><description>A step-by-step guide to local voice cloning on Apple Silicon with the open-source VoxCPM2. No API keys, no subscription, no cloud. Reference audio, style prefixes, and the normalize step nobody mentions.</description><pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>voice cloning</category><category>VoxCPM2</category><category>Apple Silicon</category><category>open source</category><category>text to speech</category></item><item><title>I Set 8 AI Agents Loose on My Startup While I Slept. They Filed 50 Bugs.</title><link>https://productsdecoded.com/blog/ran-8-ai-agents-overnight-50-bugs/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://productsdecoded.com/blog/ran-8-ai-agents-overnight-50-bugs/</guid><description>The night before launch, I ran eight specialized Claude agents against my own codebase and woke up to 50 real issues, including a race condition that let users steal credits. The leverage isn&apos;t smarter code. It&apos;s that agents don&apos;t inherit your blind spots.</description><pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>AI agents</category><category>code audit</category><category>Claude Code</category><category>solo founder</category><category>software quality</category></item><item><title>I Ran My Resume Through an AI 300 Times. Here&apos;s Why Fintech Roles Kept Screening Me Out.</title><link>https://productsdecoded.com/blog/300-ai-resume-roasts-why-pms-get-screened-out/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://productsdecoded.com/blog/300-ai-resume-roasts-why-pms-get-screened-out/</guid><description>300 scored resume-vs-JD reports showed me exactly why the same experience passed generic PM roles and failed the fintech ones I wanted. Same numbers, wrong framing. What ATS tailoring actually is, and what it isn&apos;t.</description><pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>resume</category><category>ATS</category><category>AI resume</category><category>job search</category><category>product management</category></item><item><title>After 200+ Applications, I Understood the PM Resume Paradox</title><link>https://productsdecoded.com/blog/after-200-applications-why-pms-cant-get-pm-jobs/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://productsdecoded.com/blog/after-200-applications-why-pms-cant-get-pm-jobs/</guid><description>PMs are trained to credit the team and own the failures. It&apos;s the right way to lead and it&apos;s career suicide on a resume. What nine months and 200+ applications taught me about why product managers can&apos;t get product jobs.</description><pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>product management</category><category>job search</category><category>career</category><category>PM resume</category><category>hiring</category></item></channel></rss>