> the danger to programmer jobs is that one day product owners might be able to cut out the middleman and get the job done without the programmers To do that,

> the danger to programmer jobs is that one day product owners might be able to cut out the middleman and get the job done without the programmers To do that, they'd need to have some kind of coherent detailed plans that actually made sense in the context of all the minutia of the rest of the system. If the product were built of fingerpaint and good intentions, POs would still need programmers.