Product management in the AI era: engineers ship 10x faster while PMs drown in unclosed loops
aakashgupta · x · 2026-08-20
AI commentator Aakash Gupta satirizes the product manager's plight in 2026: engineers superpowered by AI demand fully defined features at 10x velocity; analysts produce AI-generated reports that make metric drops unexplainable; the CEO wants every feature AI-powered while users couldn't care less; model companies and thousands of vibe-coded competitors are building your product — yet product hiring has slowed and the share of features moving metrics keeps falling.
His conclusion: hug your product manager. This job is not easy.
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