> The future of engineering is product management

Product Managers have been claiming this for years now, but put an AI in front of them and they also just start asking it to do their product management job for them.

Worst ones I witnessed were just using it to hallucinate tickets. I saw one even fired because of that. Endless mountains of text going absolutely nowhere, both me and the CPO thought we were going insane from reading so much Claude-ish.

Best one I know used Copilot to code a "Notion to Jira" exporter so it copies requests from business people into Jira. Automated their own work, did nothing else other than monitoring the Python script daily and running ceremonies.

They can pontificate all they want about taste but: modern apps are all copycats of others, work badly, monetization strategies are spaghetti against the wall...

Product management will be replaced by AI way sooner than engineers.