alt Hacker NewsAny product manager worth their salt should be in a coding interface--the line between Product and Engineering is blurring a lot more now, and to stay competitive PMs will need to reach a little further into the technicalities. Otherwise you risk just being another “idea guy” pushing tickets around, basically customer support on steroids which is getting eaten by Agents. Connecting the ideas to something tangible and translatable that an Agent could not do themselves is the new game.
(I am a PM of 15 years trying to navigate all of this…)
Honestly, the last thing companies need is more implementers. We had this before with UX prototypers. Focus on the what, not the how.
I'm seriously worried that my and other companies in my network have product leadership that are wasting their mental bandwidth on AI fun stuff, needlessly writing their own random tools, etc - while the product scope is going in random directions with zero product vision. This is not about job protection or "stay in your lane".