product manager

also referred to as: product managers

7 statements across 6 episodes · 3 bullish · 2 bearish · 6 people on the record · first statement Dec 7, 2023 by Clara Shih · across every show →

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Dec 7, 2023 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Shih: Software roles will shift to defining goals while AI executes
“There's a lot of other ones where the job of the software engineer and product manager and designer is going to shift from prescribing the how to Prescribing or describing the why and the what and the goal, and we leave it to the AI to figure out stochasticall…”
Clara Shih Dec 7, 2023 ▶ 22:10 No Priors Ep. 43 | With Clara Shih, CEO of Salesforce AI
Jul 11, 2024 neutral
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Gil: Software engineers in 5–10 years will resemble architects and product managers
“I think the role of A software engineer five or 10 years from now, it looks something like a mix between a technical architect and a product manager today, you know, where, where a lot of what you do is, you know, you take problems that you're facing or that y…”
Elad Gil Jul 11, 2024 ▶ 19:11 No Priors Ep. 71: The Best of 2024 (so far) with Sarah Guo and Elad Gil
Mar 13, 2025 bullish
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Dohmke: AI will converge product management, design, and engineering roles
“I think tomorrow you're going to, as a designer, type effectively the same specification as a product manager and you have, you know, an AI to render the code for the wireframes and then apply, you know, grounding out of your design system to make it look like…”
Thomas Dohmke Mar 13, 2025 ▶ 21:07 No Priors Ep 106 | With GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke
Mar 13, 2025 positive
Assertion Not publicly verifiable
Dohmke: Non-coding GitHub PM used AI agent to merge real pull request
“We actually, you know, when we recorded the demo for the Padawan project we actually had one of our product managers use an issue and the agent create the progress themselves. Right. A PM that usually doesn't code and doesn't write code in the code base was ab…”
Thomas Dohmke Mar 13, 2025 ▶ 5:36 No Priors Ep 106 | With GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke
Jul 24, 2025 negative
Insight
Chen: Early-stage startups should not hire product managers
“Product managers are great when your company gets big enough. But at the beginning, you should be thinking about yourself about what product you want to build. And your engineer should be hands-on. They should be having great ideas as well.”
Edwin Chen Jul 24, 2025 ▶ 7:14 No Priors Ep. 124 | With SurgeAI Founder and CEO Edwin Chen
Aug 21, 2025 negative
Disclosure
Ng: Early career mistake was attempting to train engineers into product managers
“One of my failures, one of the things I did not do well in the early phase of my career for some dumb reason, I tried to make a bunch of engineers product managers. I gave them product manager training, and I found that I just foolishly made a bunch of really …”
Andrew Ng Aug 21, 2025 ▶ 20:40 No Priors Ep. 128 | With Andrew Ng, Managing General Partner at AI Fund
Oct 2, 2025 neutral
Insight
Arora: Product managers are effectively glorified UI managers
“Product managers are effectively glorified UI managers, so we're trying to make sure that us common folks can interact with data and some sort of engineering algorithm behind it because we're not smart enough to talk to the engineering algorithm ourselves.”
Nikesh Arora Oct 2, 2025 ▶ 4:58 No Priors | With Palo Alto Networks CEO & Former Chief Business Officer of Google Nikesh Arora
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