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Product Managers aren't safe either

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In short

As automated code generation grows more affordable, developers leverage large language models to build product intuition and craft solutions directly. This ongoing convergence threatens traditional roles unless workers master complex system architecture that automation cannot easily replicate. System architecture remains resilient because balancing security, compliance, and budget requirements still necessitates private data and interpersonal meetings. To adapt to these pressures, professionals are encouraged to build resilient competencies, including writing code to conduct data analysis.

Key points

  • Technical professionals must cultivate architecture skills to withstand automation pressu…: Technical professionals must cultivate architecture skills to withstand automation pressures across all seniority levels.
  • System design continues to require interpersonal meetings and human abilities that artifi…: System design continues to require interpersonal meetings and human abilities that artificial intelligence cannot replicate.
  • Product managers need to learn technical skills, such as writing code for data analysis,…: Product managers need to learn technical skills, such as writing code for data analysis, to secure their value.

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AI is challenging most jobs, not just devs

AI is challenging most jobs, not just devs. And, to me, PM should seriously worrry.

Code spitters are cooked, let's be honest here and accept the fate so everyone can move on.

Architects aren't, because whatever the accuracy of any model, making it serves you need within the constraints of security + compliance + technical capabilities + budget + ... requires private data, interpersonal meetings and skills that make it hard or impossible to automate today.

genAI, to me, feels like the same threat as Instagram for professional photographs: 90% of photographs lost their moat against 16 yo taking pictures with their phones. The remaining 10% unlocked even more value because of their talent, that could not be copied.

Now, genAI is threatening devs in the same way: mediocre like me won't survive against 10x developers supercharged with AI (until they also get replaced by supercharged AI agents. But wait? Until they also get replaced by supercharged AI swarms with... bref!)

But it's not just devs, mind you! PMs are also severely…

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