AI era PM bottleneck shifts from scarce engineering to knowing what not to do
manosaie · x · 2026-11-04
The author argues that in the pre-AI world, a PM's job centered on navigating risk and tradeoffs, with time and scarce engineering resources as the fundamental bottleneck. In the AI world the job still centers on risk and tradeoffs, but the bottleneck is now the discipline and human discretion to know what not to do.
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