Hacker News debatePM role demands human skills AI cannot replace
2 Oct 30 5:01 PM · 14d ago · 3 comments · 1 source · development 2 of 7
Commenters on Hacker News began contesting Kostka's thesis. Several argued that product management fundamentally requires human interaction, stakeholder management, and understanding customer needs—work that engineers typically resist and that AI cannot fully automate, limiting the scope of displacement.
“Product managers is not just about making product features. It's a job that requires lots of human interaction, and this part is notoriously complicated for engineers.”
soontimesLucas Kostka Programmer, Cloudflare
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Product managers is not just about making product features. It’s a job that requires lots of human interaction, and this part is notoriously complicated for engineers. Article states that a person coding the feature can build a product intuition, and that’s true, product is not sorcery, but from my experience most engineers are just not interested…
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IMO if developers are “cooked” like you stated (would be nice to have more data tho) then certainly plenty of other white collar jobs are in even worse position. They are in a bit better position than many other corporate jobs when it comes to transfer of skills and learning new profession.
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This seems like a very doomer take. Hard to take this assessment seriously with absolutely no data or numbers to back this up. Especially since devs certainly don’t seem like they are going to be “cooked”.
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