Product Requirements in the Agentic Era: Why Your PRD Must Become an Executable Spec
For twenty years the PRD was a document humans read and interpreted. Now an AI agent reads it and ships. This post shows delivery leaders why product requirements must become an executable spec, and what changes when ambiguity turns into production risk.
Here is an uncomfortable thing to say out loud to a room full of product managers: for most of the last twenty years, nobody actually read your PRD. Not really. Engineers skimmed it, formed a mental model, filled the gaps with their own assumptions, and built the thing they thought you meant. The document was a ritual as much as a contract. It worked because a human on the other side was quietly correcting for its ambiguity in real time.
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