I sat down with Aakash Gupta of the Product Growth newsletter and made a tier-list of 70+ AI tools for PMs.
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Here’s some of the key takeaways:
1. Claude Code is the clear winner for vibe coding. I regularly run it in 6 terminal windows simultaneously, each working on different parts of my directory structure – it’s the closest thing to having Jarvis as your coding assistant.
2. Replit’s planning phase sets it apart from other prototyping tools. Instead of immediately pushing out code, it jams with you to build a proper plan first, then deploys multi-agent systems that can handle frontend bugs, documentation, and backend work in parallel.
3. Lindy is the agent builder every PM actually wants. It lets you prompt an AI to create agents instead of manually configuring flows – I use it for everything from email negotiation to turning podcasts into blog posts.
4. AI-first browsers still have 90% of the problem unsolved. Current tools like Comet only tackle 2-3 of the top 10 things an AI browser should do, and they lack the user context that makes a browser truly personal.
5. Small UX decisions compound into major productivity differences. Cursor’s choice to put the agent on the right side of the screen (vs left in every other tool) completely changed my usage patterns – these details matter more than people think.
6. Customer intelligence tools are criminally underused by PMs. These platforms literally tell you which features to build and estimate the ARR impact, yet most teams still manually aggregate feedback from Slack and support tickets.
7. Start with your biggest time sinks, not the flashiest tools. Audit how you actually spend your week, identify what takes the most time, then find the specific AI tool that solves that problem – generic adoption strategies don’t work.
Check out the full episode for all the details.