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A great Product Manager doesn't need to touch the codebase to drive massive value. The real work is keeping teams unblocked, clients aligned, and decisions sharp.

Our cherished Mateja Jermanis shares how she sets up her daily routine to do exactly that. She outlines the strengths of leading projects with a clear strategic focus, and how she uses AI to handle the mechanical heavy lifting, converting third-party technical documentation like RevenueCat into business logic and wiping out repetitive admin tasks.

No better way to kick off a Wednesday than with a fresh perspective on modern product leadership: https://marsbased.com/blog/2026/08/05/what-using-ai-looks-like-when-you-re-a-pm-without-a-technical-background

New client alert! 🚀

We’re thrilled to announce our new partnership with Voyager Genomics!

We’ll be helping them build their platform and implement AI capabilities. Looking forward to bringing this project to life!

Recently, our website has been receiving a new kind of visitor. They are AI agents, like Perplexity, Claude, or coding assistants, trying to parse pages built for humans, buried under nav bars, cookie banners, and heavy scripts.

The llms.txt standard emerged to address this with a single Markdown file placed at the server root, organizing key site content specifically for language models.

After implementing it on our website, our CEO, Àlex Rodríguez Bacardit, dug into the actual adoption data to see if it lives up to expectations. The picture is quite telling: much of the recent surge in adoption stems from automated rollouts on platforms like Shopify, while Google has confirmed it doesn't use it for search rankings, and the vast majority of published files barely receive any bot requests.

That said, we’ve found that it genuinely helps in specific scenarios, especially when developers point tools like Cursor directly at a project's documentation.

In his new article on our blog, Àlex shares the full breakdown of what we learned during implementation, the maintenance challenge of keeping the file in sync, and our verdict on when it makes sense to add it to a project and when you can safely skip it.

Read the full blog: https://marsbased.com/blog/2026/07/30/llmstxt-honest-take

Our July newsletter is officially out!

This month, we’re skipping the generic tech headlines to share what our engineering team has actually been testing, breaking, and learning in production.

Inside this edition, we dive into our hands-on testing of Claude Fable 5 and the debate surrounding AI model neutrality. We also break down why over-instructing LLMs with rigid "Skills" might actually be degrading your code quality, how Bun pulled off rewriting their core engine from Zig to Rust, and a few practical Claude Code productivity hacks our team uses to manage token limits and permission prompts.

To top it off, our CEO Àlex Rodríguez Bacardit sits down with Brais Moure (MoureDev) in a special podcast episode discussing software engineering, content creation, and how to stay relevant in the age of AI.

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