THAT WAS · Delhi · 19 April 2026

Where does the PM end and the model begin?

A Sunday, four people, and a table small enough that nobody could hide. The question was where the product manager's job ends now that the model can write the PRD, the user stories and the first draft of the roadmap. The answer the table settled on: at the decision. Everything before it is now cheap. The decision, and living with it, is the whole job.

Where
Third Wave Coffee, Gurugram
When
Sunday, 11:00 am
Who
4 at the table
Cost
₹0

Hover a chair. The company, never the name. 4 chairs filled. Companies below.

— AROUND THIS TABLE —

People from 4 companies

Who they are stays at the table. Where they came from is the whole afternoon.

  • Curious PM
  • Auctane
  • RSG Media Systems
  • Gokiwi
AS Curious PM
VS Auctane
DK RSG Media Systems
HM Gokiwi

WHAT WENT ROUND

Three questions.
Three rounds of coffee.

They went round the table, in order. Nobody presented. This is what came back.

Round one

What are you building?

“Three products where the model writes the first draft of everything, including the roadmap.”

Round two

What broke?

“Judgement got outsourced by accident. A draft that reads well is not a decision that was made.”

Round three

What's next?

“Write the decision down before asking the model for the document that justifies it.”

THE BILL

Settled, as always.

Coffee, chai, whatever the café did well, and two hours of the table. The bill came to us, which is the whole arrangement.

  • 018 chairs, 6 given out, 2 kept for the ones who turn up anyway.
  • 024 people sat down.
  • 03Nothing was recorded, posted or tagged.

CURIOUS PM

coffee meetup · receipt no. 117

hosted by Ankit Aggarwal

1 × Table for 8
₹0
1 × Sunday, 19 April 2026
₹0
1 × 11:00 am to about lunch
₹0
1 × Third Wave Coffee, Gurugram
₹0
Coffee, chai, snacks
₹0
Slides, pitches, name tags

TOTAL ₹0 on us

4 at the table · settled by Curious PM

SETTLED · COME TO THE NEXT ONE
Every other Saturday · a different café each time