Generative AI may merge the product manager and developer roles
What happened
On October 31, Hacker News' front page carried a programmer's article on generative AI hitting product manager jobs. The author argues generative AI threatens developers and may also put product managers at risk of replacement: when both developers and PMs can generate features directly through prompts, the two roles may merge into one function. The author calls architecture skill "one of the last bastions of human intelligence" and advises PMs to build skills they can put to work early, citing a 14-line script that analyzes a text file as an example. The piece gives the author's judgment and advice; it cites no actual cases of roles being replaced.
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- Hacker News front pageProduct Managers aren't safe either
一位程序员在 Hacker News 发文认为，生成式 AI 不只威胁开发者，产品经理同样面临被替代风险：当开发者和 PM 都能用提示词直接生成功能，两个角色可能融合为单一职能。作者称架构能力是"人类智能最后的堡垒之一"，并建议 PM 尽早积累能落地的技能，例如用 14 行代码分析文本文件。
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