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The whole point of hiring a PM is to have an SME who truly UNDERSTANDS customer and user painpoints. If you are the PM for building AI products, you better dan
by alephnerd 1y ago
The whole point of hiring a PM is to have an SME who truly UNDERSTANDS customer and user painpoints.
If you are the PM for building AI products, you better dang know how to use AI productivity products.
The era of MBB and process driven PMs is dead. We are back to the pre-2013 era of PMs as domain experts first and foremost.
As an ex-PM, thank goodness.
Process oriented PMs are useless. Process is a tool, not a product competency. UNDERSTANDING who a customer is and the problem they are facing is what matters.
We build products and companies in order solve a problem, not the other way around. PMs and Founders with this mindset tend to succeed from an investment standpoint.
- AlecSchueler 1y agoIt makes sense that they need to have good skills with AI but vibe coding also requires coding skills of a high enough ability to be able to quickly assess the quality of what you're seeing.
- alephnerd 1y agoPMs are increasingly expected to have some technical sharpness (including understanding code) - not enough to be a technical IC, but enough that they can create their own lab environment and give architecture feedback. This is especially prominent in much more technical products like AI/ML, Cybersecurity, Data Lakes, etc. If you are building and selling a technical product to technical personas, you better understand the pain points which only comes from having actually experienced that.