npm co-founder Laurie Voss: devs are all product engineers now, AI is the web in 1997
seldo · x · 2026-09-24
npm co-founder and Arize AI DevRel head Laurie Voss argues developers' job is now deciding what to build — everyone is a product engineer. He likens AI today to the web in 1997: a bubble that will pop but a technology here to stay, with long-term winners still unknown. Topics include the aha moment shifting from typing to thinking, cheap code making niche software viable, the missing junior ladder, agent review gaps, and AI bubble risks.
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