AI is writing your PRDs. Who's checking if they're right?

By 2026, writing PRDs is one of the top things product managers hand to AI. That's the good news — first drafts are grunt work, and grunt work is exactly what AI should do. The problem is what a PRD is : not a summary you skim and forget, but the decision artifact that tells engineers what to build. If the doc is confidently wrong, the wrong thing gets built — and almost nobody is checking. AI generates fluent, finished-looking output at hallucination rates that, depending on the task, run…