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shubhamjain ◴[] No.45075187[source]
"This tool 10x the productivity of software engineers"

"GREAT! That means we can fire the people who do the actual work, and replace them with MBA robots, who neither understand nor care about making a good product"

Pardon my pessimism, but in my whole career, I have never met a PM who actual did the work of driving the product vision. Most were just middlemen shuttling information between management, marketing, design, and engineering. Thinking that hiring more PMs would increase the output in the age of AI is such a childish fantasy.

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1. anikom15 ◴[] No.45075416[source]
The Mythical Man-Month was written in 1975, and it seems hardly anyone has still bothered to read it.
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2. disgruntledphd2 ◴[] No.45075656[source]
Yeah, when I read it (probably a decade ago now) it was remarkable how much of the advice was still applicable. If you (yes, you reader) haven't read it before you should do so. It's only 200 pages or so, mostly short articles so it's not a difficult read.
3. pjmlp ◴[] No.45075869[source]
I see this all the time to this day.