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Things are moving fast right now. ⚡ Not just your sprint board. Everything. Walmart cut apparel design lead times from 26 weeks to six. Kraft Heinz reduced time-to-market from 36 months to six. Somewhere, a three-person startup is probably building a meditation app in the time it takes the rest of us to find the right Slack thread. Welcome to the prototype economy. 🧪 This quarter’s Product Thinking Newsletter looks at what happens when teams can test, learn and build before an idea becomes too expensive, too political or too beloved to die. Inside, you’ll find: 🔐 How Swann Security built the world’s first AI-powered security concierge, turning an uncertain idea into an award-winning product through rapid prototyping. 🤖 Why AI in product development is about more than productivity and how AI workers are reshaping roles, collaboration and the way product leaders think about delivery. 🛠️ How Constellation Research, Inc. recognized AI/works™ for changing the economics of enterprise software delivery through a spec-driven, lifecycle approach. There’s also a quick June edition of this month in tech and product history, featuring Napster, the iPhone, Reddit, the ATM and a few other products that quietly changed how people listen, spend, scroll and avoid small talk. Click below to read the latest Product Thinking Newsletter and see how faster experimentation is changing what product teams can actually deliver. 👇