> The product management side of this equation is equally unsettled. If developers are now
thinking more about what to build and why, they are doing work that used to belong to
product managers
It's not clear to me why this is true. If LLMs are writing code, why are developers simply not orchestrating the completion of more features instead of moving up the stack to do product development work? Is there some implication that the existence of LLMs also enables developers to run user studies, evaluate business metrics and decide on strategy?
Additionally, if PMs can use LLMs to increase velocity in their work why not focus on all the things that used to be deprioritized? Why, with the freed up time, is generating code the best outcome?
These questions likely have different answers depending on organization size but I'm not sure I understand why orgs wouldn't just do more work in this scenario instead of blending responsibilities. It's not like there's infinite mental bandwidth just because an LLM is generating the code
Quoting Elon here: "Am a fan of Larry, Sergey & Google in general, but self-driving cars comments to Bloomberg were just off-the-cuff. No big announcement here"
The author, Josh Elman, has worked at Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn and is now a principal at Greylock Partners with an investment focus on advertising and social (among other things). I'd say he definitely understands the advertising goals of a social media company.
It's not clear to me why this is true. If LLMs are writing code, why are developers simply not orchestrating the completion of more features instead of moving up the stack to do product development work? Is there some implication that the existence of LLMs also enables developers to run user studies, evaluate business metrics and decide on strategy?
Additionally, if PMs can use LLMs to increase velocity in their work why not focus on all the things that used to be deprioritized? Why, with the freed up time, is generating code the best outcome?
These questions likely have different answers depending on organization size but I'm not sure I understand why orgs wouldn't just do more work in this scenario instead of blending responsibilities. It's not like there's infinite mental bandwidth just because an LLM is generating the code