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Mar 3, 2026 · Product Management

Why Data Thinking Is the Key to Evaluating AI Agents for Product Managers

Product managers transitioning to AI must shift from feature‑centric thinking to a data‑driven mindset, treating models as probabilistic systems, defining ground truth, analyzing bad cases, and building multi‑dimensional evaluation metrics such as safety, consistency, and usefulness to ensure reliable, user‑focused AI outputs.