From Product Management to Applied AI: A career transition
brandon_galang · x · 2026-08-20
The author shares their transition from Product Management to a Go-to-Market Engineering role. Driven by the high costs of early models like Claude 3.5 Sonnet, they began using AI to prototype tools and experiment with agents. They realized AI could help build other agents and write glue code, leading to a deeper dive into engineering and operational problem-solving.
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