From PM to GTM Engineering: You Don't Have to Write Code to Be Technical
brandon_galang · x · 2026-09-13
Brandon Galang reflects on moving from product management into a go-to-market engineering role. Despite shipping things with agents and getting pull requests merged, he felt impostor syndrome, stuck behind a mental wall that 'real technical people' understand the code.
Landing his first PRs and fixing his own mistakes shrank that wall. He notes many people downplay their work as 'just vibe coding,' and argues that in the agent era, understanding the problem and driving implementation counts as being technical.
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