I actually see the roles combining and devs getting closer with the customer and using customer feedback to write code with AI.
I've experimented with taking feature requests, running them through prompts to create stories, and then feeding those stories directly into AI coding tool.
The results have been variable and imperfect but I can get smaller feature requests of work done in hours rather than days of effort.
By combining roles the handoff costs from moving a piece of work from Customer to PO/PMs to Devs to QA are basically nothing so you have more time for iteration with the customer and the AI code generation.
I really fear for the industry because I can already do the work of 2-3 people in a fraction of the time. If the tools get 10 or 20% better I could personally do the work a small team could do.
No. We need you to communicate better with the client and deliver good requirements that don't rock the boat. Same as it ever was.
AI is many miles away.
If anything this is where modern AI shits its pants and is completely unusable.
speaking from actual experience and not the absolute tards that try to astroturf this place with their ignorant disconnected opinions because they haven't written code in over a decade and especially true for web dev
What you described sounds more like a sales manager.
Product manager in my view is a manager of a product, not someone who cobbles up demos for customers (if you need to actively sell custom solutions to customers, I argue you're not a product company).
What was the extent of your web apps? Were they just simple todo type apps or were they decently complex? Did you modify the code yourself or was it just copy and paste mainly?
I actually see the roles combining and devs getting closer with the customer and using customer feedback to write code with AI.
I've experimented with taking feature requests, running them through prompts to create stories, and then feeding those stories directly into AI coding tool.
The results have been variable and imperfect but I can get smaller feature requests of work done in hours rather than days of effort.
By combining roles the handoff costs from moving a piece of work from Customer to PO/PMs to Devs to QA are basically nothing so you have more time for iteration with the customer and the AI code generation.
I really fear for the industry because I can already do the work of 2-3 people in a fraction of the time. If the tools get 10 or 20% better I could personally do the work a small team could do.
No. We need you to communicate better with the client and deliver good requirements that don't rock the boat. Same as it ever was.
AI is many miles away.
If anything this is where modern AI shits its pants and is completely unusable.
speaking from actual experience and not the absolute tards that try to astroturf this place with their ignorant disconnected opinions because they haven't written code in over a decade and especially true for web dev
What you described sounds more like a sales manager.
Product manager in my view is a manager of a product, not someone who cobbles up demos for customers (if you need to actively sell custom solutions to customers, I argue you're not a product company).
What was the extent of your web apps? Were they just simple todo type apps or were they decently complex? Did you modify the code yourself or was it just copy and paste mainly?