Ethan Mollick: AI is blurring coding, design and PM roles inside companies
emollick · x · 2026-09-16
Ethan Mollick reports increasingly hearing from senior managers that job functions are blurring—coding, design and product management all collapsing and overlapping as everyone uses AI, a pattern his P&G study also found. He argues new models for organizing work are urgently needed.
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