Uploaded July 2026 | Updated September 2026, 18 hours ago
How a Tanzu product lead plans a feature with AI in ten minutes.
Chris McClanahan, a product lead over Tanzu Platform, on the habit that changed how he works with AI: before it builds anything, he makes it ask him questions.
Instead of trying to write the perfect prompt, he tells the agent to ask the qualifying questions it needs to plan the work. Five or ten minutes of back-and-forth, and by the end the plan is good enough to run. The AI pulls the intent out of you that you would never think to type up front.
From a longer conversation with Coté about how Tanzu’s product team rebuilt itself around AI agents.
Interested in a great platform as a service for your enterprise apps? Try Tanzu: vmware.com/products/app-platform/tanzu
How a Tanzu product lead plans a feature with AI in ten minutes.
Chris McClanahan, a product lead over Tanzu Platform, on the habit that changed how he works with AI: before it builds anything, he makes it ask him questions.
Instead of trying to write the perfect prompt, he tells the agent to ask the qualifying questions it needs to plan the work. Five or ten minutes of back-and-forth, and by the end the plan is good enough to run. The AI pulls the intent out of you that you would never think to type up front.
From a longer conversation with Coté about how Tanzu’s product team rebuilt itself around AI agents.
Interested in a great platform as a service for your enterprise apps? Try Tanzu: vmware.com/products/app-platform/tanzu
