Vo: AI will replace functional PM communication, but not influential leadership
Claire Vo · Bending the universe in your favor | Claire Vo (LaunchDarkly, Color, Optimizely, ChatPRD) · Apr 7, 2024 · at 1:04:10
Claire Vo, Chief Product Officer at LaunchDarkly and creator of ChatPRD, breaks down which product management communication skills AI will automate versus human capabilities that will endure.
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“Communication lowercase c I feel like is one of the places that's going to be replaced. You know, there's, and I call it lowercase c is like the functional trading of information That allows other people to do jobs. Like, I think that these language models and these tools are really good synthesizing information, putting together communication, and can coordinate who that coordination goes, communication goes to and get it out in many modalities of content. And so I'm really thinking about, you know, the PM as the keeper of cross-functional relationships and communication. Is really, I think, potentially going to change now, but capital C communication of are you influential? Are you convincing? Are you bold? Can you get this system of humans to follow you down a path? That's, I think, going to be much, much harder to replace.”
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