“Cursor is a much better product manager than I ever was”: How this PM uses AI for PRDs, Jira tickets, and replying to coworkers | Dennis Yang (Chime)
How I AI
2025/10/27
“Cursor is a much better product manager than I ever was”: How this PM uses AI for PRDs, Jira tickets, and replying to coworkers | Dennis Yang (Chime)
“Cursor is a much better product manager than I ever was”: How this PM uses AI for PRDs, Jira tickets, and replying to coworkers | Dennis Yang (Chime)
How I AI
2025/10/27
In this episode, Dennis Yang, Principal Product Manager at Chime, reveals how he leverages Cursor—an AI-powered IDE—not for coding, but as a comprehensive system to transform product management workflows. By integrating generative AI into everyday tasks, he demonstrates how non-technical professionals can automate documentation, collaboration, and reporting processes with remarkable efficiency.
Dennis Yang shares his innovative use of Cursor as a central hub for product management, going beyond its traditional coding purpose. He explains how Markdown files in a source-controlled environment streamline PRD creation and align product and engineering teams. Using Model Context Protocols (MCPs), he automates publishing content to Confluence and Notion, pulls in feedback, and generates AI-assisted responses to comments. Cursor also enables automatic Jira ticket generation from PRDs and creates detailed status reports by pulling data from Jira, reducing manual overhead. Dennis illustrates how AI tools like ChatGPT and Claude can power personal productivity systems, such as morning briefings, and advocates a 'super MVP' approach—prototyping AI products directly in Cursor without writing code. His workflow emphasizes opinionated defaults, seamless integrations, and iterative prompting, offering a blueprint for non-technical users to harness AI deeply in their workflows while staying agile and focused on user impact.
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Cursor enhances productivity in product management.
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LLMs prefer Markdown, and developers are increasingly thinking in Markdown when working with Cursor.
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Writing PRDs directly in Cursor using Markdown with live preview improves efficiency
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Early sharing of PRDs enables faster iteration and team alignment.
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Source-controlled markdown files are becoming a major competitor to SaaS offerings in product management.
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MCPs enable a language model to handle complex tasks based on high-level context by connecting tools like Cursor and Confluence.
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Cursor reads and prioritizes PRD comments, then drafts responses for review
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Cursor is a better product manager than I am.
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AI-powered comments on Jira tickets improve team communication and documentation quality
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Daily AI use helps product people understand model behavior through real-world flaws.
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PMs can set opinionated defaults like model choice and data sources to streamline AI agent development
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Colleagues know I use AI to reply to comments.
