Minlum TRENDS

Top Product Trends of Sep-Aug

In September we read 17,530 posts and found 33 trends for product managers. Here are the top 3 for you.

TREND #1

Teams write down what good output looks like instead of a requirements document

A spec used to say what to build, and someone signed it off. Intercom scores its support agent before release and on every live conversation after, and GitHub tests a model on cases a clean benchmark misses.

Of 17 sources, 4 are job descriptions and 13 are people writing. Most describe one team's own scoring setup, not a shared standard.

20 mentions

among 14 sources

TREND #2

Building is nearly free, so the hard part is deciding what deserves to exist. No model or committee can do it

Code used to be the gate, and whoever wrote it decided what got built. Figma says people who never opened a code editor ship working software, and some Microsoft designers now write production code.

Of 18 sources, 0 are job descriptions and 18 are people writing. Nobody is hiring against it, so this is argument rather than evidence.

26 mentions

among 17 sources

TREND #3

Employers and designers say an AI agent earns trust by showing its steps and naming its guesses

Trust used to come from a confident answer. Nielsen Norman Group named its agent Lemon because models trained to sound warm make more mistakes, and Intercom finds businesses earn trust in AI by accident.

Of 19 sources, 5 are job descriptions and 14 are people writing. Most argue for the behaviour rather than showing a product that does it.

16 mentions

among 11 sources

There are 30 more trends for PMs from September on Minlum Trends.

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