AI Engineering

Topics Covered

• Teresa's accidental path into AI engineering

• Her partnership with Vistaly

• Building "Teresa Bot"

• How she learned — and how you can too

• Discovery skills transfer directly to AI engineering

• On her engineering background (and why it's not what you think)

• The real takeaway

Key Quotes

"I know anything that I don't know how to do, Claude will teach me how to do. And Claude is infinitely patient." — Teresa Torres

"I don't want to build all that stuff. I don't really want to be a software company. I'm almost set up like an AI researcher." — Teresa Torres

"The moment I learned more about data science, all of my discovery work became so different." — Petra Wille

Resources & Links:

• Follow Teresa Torres: ProductTalk.org

• Follow Petra Wille: Petra-Wille.com

Mentioned in this episode:

• Behind the Scenes: Building the Product Talk Interview Coach (producttalk.org/customer-interview-coach) blog by Teresa

• Claude Code (claude.com/product/claude-code)

• Vistaly (vistaly.com), an opportunity solution tree software partnering with Teresa

• Opportunity Solution Trees: Visualize Your Discovery to Stay Aligned and Drive Outcomes (producttalk.org/opportunity-solution-trees) by Teresa

• Product Talk Academy (learn.producttalk.org) by Teresa

• Just Now Possible Podcast (producttalk.org/just-now-possible) by Teresa, which is a podcast on teams building AI products

• Vibe Coding Best Practices: Avoid the Doom Loop with Planning and Code Reviews (producttalk.org/vibe-coding-best-practices) blog by Teresa which includes the full Claude conversation used to build Teresa Bot

• AI Evals for Engineers and PMs course (maven.com/parlance-labs/evals?promoCode=torres…) by Hamel Husain and Shreya Shankar (get 35% off through Teresa’s link) on Maven (maven.com)

• CDH Membership (producttalk.org/product-catalog-cdh-membership) (includes Slack community access with Teresa and other continuous discovery practitioners)

• Previous All Things Product (producttalk.org/all-things-product) episode: Product Builder Myth (producttalk.org/product-builder-myth-all-thing…)