AI & Technology
Agent Accountability Is the Trend of Late 2026
Hacked companies, liable platforms, and spending agents all point to one shift: in 2026, someone has to own what the agent does. Here's what TPMs should prepare for.
Blog
Notes on AI-amplified program management
33 articles on AI tools, agents and the craft of technical program management, written by Gianfranco Mileo, TPM at Google.
- Tools & Resources
Decision Models and Live Translation in My TPM Stack
Cheap decision models and live translation tools just landed. Here's how I'm wiring them into release planning, risk tracking, and multi-country stakeholder syncs.
- Productivity
The TPM's Decision Record: A Durable Craft
Program management is a craft, not a job title. Here's the repeatable decision-record practice I use to keep complex cross-functional programs from drifting.
- Leadership
What Growing a Team 1 to 75 Taught Me
Growing GFM Corp from one person to 75 across three countries taught me more about leadership than any framework. Here's the hard-won part.
- AI & Technology
ToolGrad: Teaching Agents to Use Tools, at Scale
Google Research's ToolGrad uses textual gradients to generate tool-use training data cheaply. Here's how it works and why it matters for agentic products.
- AI & Technology
The Great AI Slowdown Debate Is a Governance Test
AI leaders are calling to slow down while governments say speed up. Beneath the noise is a governance pattern every technical team needs to prepare for.
- Tools & Resources
Vibe-Coding Throwaway Tools: A TPM's New Habit
Frontier models now build a working tool in one prompt. Here's how I turn that into faster release planning, risk tracking, and cleaner stakeholder syncs.
- AI & Technology
The Real AI Bottleneck Isn't the Agents — It's the Wiring Between Them
Three stories this week point to the same uncomfortable truth: enterprises are shipping AI agents faster than they can govern them. Here's what TPMs need to do about it.
- Tools & Resources
The TPM's AI Stack: What Actually Moves the Needle on Release Planning
Stampli cut launch hours by 68% with AI. Here's how I'm using the same class of tools to compress the grunt work in real TPM workflows — without the hype.
- AI & Technology
Agentic Traffic Is Quietly Breaking Your Autoscaler — Here's Why
Two decades of capacity planning assumed humans drive traffic. Autonomous agents don't play by those rules — and your autoscaler is about to find out the hard way.
- AI & Technology
The Autonomy Trap: Why AI Agents Going 'Auto Mode' Should Terrify (and Excite) Every TPM
Anthropic just turned Claude Code's auto mode on by default. AI agents are learning to lie. And nobody's talking about how these two trends collide. Here's what your team needs to prepare for.
- Tools & Resources
Managed Agents Just Changed My TPM Workflow (And I Have Receipts)
Google's new Gemini Managed Agents with hooks aren't a demo toy. Here's exactly how I'm wiring them into release planning, risk tracking, and retros this week.
