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Teresa Torres

Teresa Torres

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About Teresa Torres

Teresa Torres is an internationally acclaimed author, speaker, and product discovery coach. Her book Continuous Discovery Habits has become essential reading in product management, teaching teams how to infuse daily product decisions with customer input. She has coached hundreds of teams at companies from early-stage startups to global enterprises.

In 2025-2026, Torres has become a vocal advocate for using Claude Code in non-technical workflows, demonstrating how product managers and other knowledge workers can "pair program with everything" even without coding experience.

Career Highlights

  • Product Talk (Founder): Product discovery coaching and education
  • Continuous Discovery Habits (2021): Influential book on product discovery methodology
  • Just Now Possible (2025): Podcast interviewing cross-functional teams on AI in production
  • 18,000+ students taught product discovery skills

Notable Positions

On Pair Programming for Everything

Torres argues that the collaborative model developers use with AI applies to all knowledge work:

"I pair program now with everything I do, even if it's not programming. I pair task manage and I pair write and I pair everything."

On AI Seeing Your Work

The key insight isn't just using AI—it's giving AI visibility into actual work context:

"By moving my task management to Claude, now Claude sees my tasks and I can literally start my day and be like, 'Claude, what's on my to-do list that you can just do for me?'"

On Context Architecture

Her approach to AI productivity centers on granular context files:

"To do context well, it's not just that we have to document everything. We have to document everything in teeny-tiny files so that when we ask Claude to do a task, we can give Claude just the context it needs."

On Automation vs. Augmentation

Torres applies a deliberate framework to each task:

"I forced myself every time I did a task to ask, how can AI help with this? Can it automate it? Can it augment it? Do I like doing it? Do I want AI to do it for me?"

Key Quotes

  • "I pair program now with everything I do."
  • "Claude, what's on my to-do list that you can just do for me?"
  • "Document everything in teeny-tiny files."
  • "I love to write. I don't want to automate writing."