https://stonewall.dev/blog Engineering insights on code-aware specs and the future of product management. en Tue, 28 Apr 2026 06:14:45 GMT https://stonewall.dev/blog/ai-coding-moved-the-bottleneck-to-pm/index.html Per-developer PR throughput went from 1–2 a week to 5–10. At 30 engineers that's 200 changes a week. Engineering isn't the constraint anymore — product and GTM are. Mon, 27 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://stonewall.dev/blog/ai-coding-moved-the-bottleneck-to-pm/index.html https://stonewall.dev/blog/close-the-loop-customer-feature-requests/index.html Closing the loop from customer ask to shipped feature is the single highest-leverage thing a B2B startup can do in 2026. Email release notes don't do it. Slack Connect does. Mon, 27 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://stonewall.dev/blog/close-the-loop-customer-feature-requests/index.html https://stonewall.dev/blog/ai-agents-for-product-management-what-works/index.html Only 25% of PM tools score highly on agentic capabilities. Here's an honest assessment of what AI agents can and can't do for product management today. Sun, 05 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://stonewall.dev/blog/ai-agents-for-product-management-what-works/index.html https://stonewall.dev/blog/ai-agents-need-better-specs-not-better-models/index.html The model isn't the bottleneck. The spec is. Here's why your AI coding agent keeps building the wrong thing — and what to give it instead. Sun, 05 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://stonewall.dev/blog/ai-agents-need-better-specs-not-better-models/index.html https://stonewall.dev/blog/best-jira-alternative-for-startups/index.html Jira was built for process. You need a tool built for shipping. Here's what actually matters in a PM tool for teams under 50 people. Sun, 05 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://stonewall.dev/blog/best-jira-alternative-for-startups/index.html https://stonewall.dev/blog/claude-code-for-product-managers/index.html PMs are adopting Claude Code — a CLI tool built for engineers — to write specs, generate tickets, and run product workflows. Here's why it works and how to set it up. Sun, 05 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://stonewall.dev/blog/claude-code-for-product-managers/index.html https://stonewall.dev/blog/claude-code-plugins-are-turning-engineers-into-pms/index.html 47 PM skills. Spec-driven workflows. Brainstorm-plan-implement pipelines. The Claude Code plugin ecosystem is building the 'Cursor for PMs' that YC asked for. Sun, 05 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://stonewall.dev/blog/claude-code-plugins-are-turning-engineers-into-pms/index.html https://stonewall.dev/blog/connect-github-prs-to-product-roadmap/index.html Your engineers live in GitHub. Your board should too. Here's how to auto-sync PR activity to your product roadmap — no manual status updates. Sun, 05 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://stonewall.dev/blog/connect-github-prs-to-product-roadmap/index.html https://stonewall.dev/blog/engineer-running-product-without-a-pm/index.html No PM? No budget for one? Here's the practical playbook for engineers who inherited the product role and need to ship without drowning in process. Sun, 05 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://stonewall.dev/blog/engineer-running-product-without-a-pm/index.html https://stonewall.dev/blog/from-customer-feedback-to-product-spec/index.html 80% of customer feedback never gets analyzed. Here's the automated pipeline from raw feedback to structured, codebase-aware product spec — in 10 minutes. Sun, 05 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://stonewall.dev/blog/from-customer-feedback-to-product-spec/index.html https://stonewall.dev/blog/jira-dependency-management-is-broken/index.html Jira dependency links are informational labels with zero scheduling impact. Here's why that matters — and what actual dependency intelligence looks like. Sun, 05 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://stonewall.dev/blog/jira-dependency-management-is-broken/index.html https://stonewall.dev/blog/linear-vs-jira-vs-notion-for-ai-teams/index.html AI-first teams need spec-aware, code-connected PM tools. Here's how Linear, Jira, and Notion actually compare when AI agents are writing your code. Sun, 05 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://stonewall.dev/blog/linear-vs-jira-vs-notion-for-ai-teams/index.html https://stonewall.dev/blog/prd-to-code-pipeline/index.html The gap between product spec and working code is where features go wrong. Here's the full PRD-to-code pipeline that AI is making possible in 2026. Sun, 05 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://stonewall.dev/blog/prd-to-code-pipeline/index.html https://stonewall.dev/blog/spec-driven-development/index.html TDD had its moment. Now specs are the bottleneck. Spec-Driven Development is the methodology emerging from teams that ship with AI agents. Sun, 05 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://stonewall.dev/blog/spec-driven-development/index.html https://stonewall.dev/blog/what-is-drift-detection/index.html Drift detection catches when your code diverges from your spec — before merge, not after launch. Here's what it is, why it matters, and how it works. Sun, 05 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://stonewall.dev/blog/what-is-drift-detection/index.html https://stonewall.dev/blog/what-is-mcp-for-product-management/index.html Model Context Protocol is how AI coding agents access external knowledge. Here's what MCP means for product management — and why your specs should be MCP-accessible. Sun, 05 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://stonewall.dev/blog/what-is-mcp-for-product-management/index.html https://stonewall.dev/blog/chatprd-has-100k-users/index.html ChatPRD proved PMs want AI-written PRDs. But document generation is just the first step. Here's what's still missing. Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://stonewall.dev/blog/chatprd-has-100k-users/index.html https://stonewall.dev/blog/cursor-changed-how-we-code/index.html AI coding tools solved how to build. Nobody solved what to build. Here's why the spec layer is the real bottleneck — and what comes next. Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://stonewall.dev/blog/cursor-changed-how-we-code/index.html https://stonewall.dev/blog/how-to-write-a-prd-as-an-engineer/index.html You're an engineer who got handed PM work. Here's how to write a PRD that's actually useful — not a political document that rots in Notion. Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://stonewall.dev/blog/how-to-write-a-prd-as-an-engineer/index.html https://stonewall.dev/blog/no-open-source-pm-tool/index.html Cal.com did scheduling. PostHog did analytics. Nobody's done product management. Here's why open source is the right model for the spec layer. Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://stonewall.dev/blog/no-open-source-pm-tool/index.html https://stonewall.dev/blog/pm-tools-that-dont-talk-to-each-other/index.html Notion for specs. Linear for tickets. ChatPRD for drafts. Slack for glue. $50/month and nothing is connected. There's a better way. Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://stonewall.dev/blog/pm-tools-that-dont-talk-to-each-other/index.html https://stonewall.dev/blog/your-prd-stops-working-after-48-hours/index.html Every PRD has a 48-hour half-life. Here's why specs drift from reality — and what a 'living PRD' looks like in 2026. 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