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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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bryanrasmussen ◴[] No.45075754[source]
> Most were just middlemen shuttling information between management, marketing, design, and engineering.

well, in my experience as a developer integration between different systems with different views about how things should work is often the most challenging part of the job, so what you describe sounds like it would be difficult.

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1. pdhborges ◴[] No.45076289[source]
In my experience PMs often work at a very high level. How things shold work are defined in a incosistent way when we take into account all the user flows, subtelness and restrictions of other systems. So programmers end up doing a significant chunk of the work by refining the specs so that the thing actually makes sense.