# Mike Belsito

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How to lead a product team through AI adoption - Tiama Hanson-Drury (CPTO, Opus 2)

Tiama Hanson-Drury is CPTO at Opus 2, the legal technology company behind the systems that run some of the world's largest and most high-stakes litigation. She started her career in sales, moved into product in 2010 and has spent the last 16 years split roughly evenly between individual contributor…

Linear says AI isn't saving product teams time

Mike Belsito hosts Now Shipping, the weekly AI news show for product people, brought to you by the team at Mind the Product. This week's three stories cover a platform war breaking out over where the world's code lives, the first real fallout from AI content watermarking, and a set of behavioural n…

Inside Slack Code: what it is, and why Anthropic just became its founding partner

This week we look into the launch of Slack Code. Salesforce's new product turns any Slack conversation into a dedicated workspace where AI coding agents such as Claude Code, Devin and GitHub Copilot can plan, write and ship code together, with a human still required to sign off before anything reac…

Product lessons from a month of AI security incidents

Oji and Ezinne Udezue are product leaders with more than 50 years of combined experience between them. Oji has held product roles at Twitter, Calendly, Atlassian, Typeform and Microsoft; Ezinne has led product at WP Engine, Procore and T-Mobile. Together they co-wrote Building Rocket Ships and now …

Meta’s Muse: How much control would you hand over?

Your calendar, your inbox, your credit card. How much access would you give Meta’s AI agent?This week on Now Shipping, Mike Belsito examines Meta’s pitch for Muse and the questions it raises for product teams building, buying or experimenting with AI agents.Where should your product’s AI features l…

We read Dario Amodei’s 3,800-word essay so you don’t have to

AI’s biggest rivals are talking about slowing down. But will their release schedules tell the same story?This week on Now Shipping, Mike Belsito breaks down Dario Amodei’s 3,800-word essay on why frontier AI development needs to slow down, the responses from Sam Altman and Elon Musk, and what it co…

Meta Muse's big week: #1 on the App Store, then blocked by Amazon

Meta's Muse launched two weeks ago as a personal AI agent you hand tasks off to rather than chat with. Since then it's become one of the biggest product stories of the year: download numbers that outpace ChatGPT's early days, a Shopify and Instacart partnership that wires Muse straight into checkou…

Everything you need to know about Dots: OpenAI’s new agent

This week on Now Shipping, Mike Belsito breaks down OpenAI’s dots: how its always-on agents work, the workflows demonstrated at DevDay, and the controls designed to keep people in charge. He examines the early customer examples and asks whether the biggest advance is new capability or making existi…

Why companies are blocking AI shopping agents

This week on Now Shipping, Mike Belsito explores why personal agents are getting stuck across the web, and what those failures reveal about the products we build. From Walmart’s checkout checks to Yelp’s paid access model, businesses are taking very different approaches to agent traffic. Sometimes,…

How Anthropic’s agents work 6× more than humans

Six agent hours for every human hour. Seventeen engineers for every product manager. What happens when an AI company turns its own technology on the way it works?This week on Now Shipping, Mike Belsito breaks down Anthropic’s research into how Claude is changing its workforce, from hiring fewer jun…