Do not depend on jobs that make you tell others what to do , such as PM

Had a chat with a senior PM today on the need of the PM function with Ai getting smarter. Engineers build, designers design, data people analyse things, and a business person has the mind to make money by leveraging the team. When a point arrives where Ai does all the IC part of Engineering, Design and Data, there won't be a requirement of PM function at all! Creativity, Empathy, Product thinking, all these skills will be owned by Engineers, Designers, Data and Business leaders. These skills like "product sense" are something that won't hold the fort much longer because eventually all good engineers, designers and data people will have to develop the customer empathy and product sense to prompt the Ai and do their individual job better. IMHO it is a high time that all PMs work to strengthen at least one hard skill to keep themselves employable. While I am writing this post, unfortunately I am also the one who is seeking a PM role right now. Any suggestions or thoughts you have on which hard skill to master and how to remain employable?

Incoming!. Every FAANG PM is thinking about and working on integrating Gen AI into their features. This includes PMs and engineers who oversee 1-2 features in the entire product. And will oversell their part in it. For promotions to job switches these guy have to shout ‘I used a lot of Gen AI to change the world’ And then to sell it on LinkedIn for getting likes. The PMs will sound like they were just as visionary as Sam Altman who made GPT in the first place. And the engineers will sound like they coded GPT and will invent AGI themselves while they just integrate 2 APIs. You’ve been warned.

I'm a software engineer with very little knowledge of what pms and strategy people do but whatever the level gpt might achieve in future, it may make coding jobs redundant but I believe product roles would still be `safe`. Thoughts?

1. They are the most overpaid people in India. 2. They have no work life balance and they don't even know what it means. 3. They think they are the best at everything, but they can't do anything right. 4. They are always complaining about their job and how much they hate it. 5. They are never satisfied with their salary or benefits package. 6. They are always looking for new jobs because they think they deserve better than what they currently have. Would you like to add anything else here?

I work at a fintech company.. We have a engineering team of 35 dev which includes around 10 senior devs and the remaining are interns and junior devs.. we got called for a productivity improvement meeting by one of the senior developer and he just denied chatgpt for us.. Okay I’am biased here.. I agree we need to embrace new technologies.. But his point was to use chatgpt promts to write all of our code and it makes no sense.. He demoed chatgpt promts and was like “ see you don’t need to write a single line of code “ When we told we should not solely depend on tools such as copilot or chatgpt as it will not help us as well as the interns and the junior devs.. You code to learn .. you don’t learn to code .. Just by copy pasting code snippets for chatgpt will take them nowhere and I’m pretty sure it will confuse them even more .. What do you guys feel ?

I think you only get better at interviews by preparing for interviews. It's a decent measure of IQ and work ethic. However, I have met PMs who kill it at interviews but are extremely incompetent at their jobs. I have also met great PMs who really suck at interviews. As the role evolves and AI takes over, is there a better way to evaluate PMs?

A lot of noise around AI taking coding jobs, which i fear might be real. Like not completely but you get my point. So how should one upskill themselves (especially the average folks, top 1/2% will not be affected in any field imo) for the upcoming shift? Like will data analytics/science or maybe ai/ml engineering jobs be on rise ? Should be start upskilling in those fields or any other suggestions? I would really like to know it from someone who has good experience in the industry or someone with good insight. Thanks