Together AI CPO cuts PRDs to 2 pages plus a prototype to fix "context window explosions"
aakashgupta · x · 2026-09-16
Charles Zedlewski, CPO at Together AI ($8.3B), shared how his team reworked its AI workflows around a new observation: "the new party foul is exploding your coworker's context window" — nobody wants long AI-written documents anymore.
- Root cause: optimizing for individual productivity. Long documents used to be proof of work; now they're proof of AI usage, so the artifacts must change.
- Collapse the PRD to 2 pages + a prototype: PM Pavneet, formerly at Amazon writing 20-page PRFAQs, switched to a minimal PRD paired with an interactive prototype.
- Collective over individual productivity: optimize team output rather than showcasing lengthy personal deliverables.
A directly useful reference for teams redesigning collaboration in the AI era.
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