How this PM uses AI for PRDs, JIRA tickets, and replying to coworkers | Dennis Yang (Chime)

We've seen so many people use tools like Cursor to write code. We actually haven't seen anybody yet just using Cursor to write, [chuckles] and that's what you're doing.

The reason why Cursor is my favorite UI for the AI is it has all the interfaces and interactions and connections into the tools that are critical for my daily product management.

I think we're at this really interesting place where, because these primitives are being built in the context of software engineering, you're getting these concepts of markdown, Git, commits, change tracking in these tools that used to be very software engineering-centric.

The most useful solutions will have interoperability as one of the key things. So any system that if it feels like it's locking that content or data away, I'm not gonna prefer to use that system. I don't care why you have these modes. I'm sure there's a good reason, but if that's my content, and I want all my systems to be able to access it when it needs to. It's really improving communication and reducing the time I'm spending writing status, and at the same time, improving the status content that is being circulated both up to leadership and across the organization. [upbeat music]

Welcome back to How I AI. I'm Claire Vo, product leader and AI obsessive, here on a mission to help you build better with these new tools. Today, we have a fun conversation with Dennis Yang, Principal Product Manager for Generative AI at Chime. Now, this one makes me sweat a little bit because I thought I was the alpha AI-powered PM, and Dennis shows me his workflows, which are way beyond anything I've seen before. He's gonna show you how to use Cursor to not only write your PRDs, but push them into Confluence or Notion, read comments, reply to comments, prototype AI tools, and more. This is a awesome one for anyone out there who's curious if you can make use of Cursor without writing code, and I think you're gonna learn a lot. Let's get to it. AI is supposed to make work easier, but I've been there: weeks of setup, endless back and forth with engineering, and yet another tool the team never really adopts. That's why I use Zapier's AI orchestration platform. It connects with nearly 8,000 apps, so I can finally put AI to work without the drama, without the delays, and without pulling engineering in every time I want to automate something. With Zapier, you can roll out AI-powered workflows that do real work across your whole company in days, not weeks. I use Zapier every single day. It automatically responds to leads with enriched, personalized data, it checks my calendar weekly and offers smarter ways to manage my time, and it even drafts emails for every new request that lands in my inbox. All of that running quietly in the background, so I can focus on the work that matters. And Zapier's built for scale. With enterprise-grade security, compliance, and governance, it's trusted by teams at Dropbox, Airbnb, Opendoor, and thousands more. Go to try.zapier.com/howiai to learn more about how Zapier can bring the power of AI orchestration to your entire org. Dennis, thanks for joining How I AI. I am really excited about this episode because we've seen so many people use tools like Cursor to write code, but we actually haven't seen anybody yet just using Cursor to write. [chuckles] And that's what you're doing, um, as, as a product manager and somebody who's thinking about strategy all the time. So before we dive in, why Cursor? Why writing? You're not writing a lick of code in here for at least this use case that we're gonna see. So how did you kind of get into this flow with this AI-powered IDE?