Weisbrot: AI will shrink product teams, consolidating work to senior leaders
Sean Weisbrot · AI Predicts the Next Word. It Cannot Predict the Next Car. · Jul 20, 2023 · at 5:06
Sean Weisbrot, host of We Live to Build, discusses how AI tooling will reduce the number of product managers needed in tech companies.
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“So I think that there may be less people on a product team. I think maybe it'll be delegated to someone of a higher level position, maybe like a chief product officer, maybe a product director. Maybe you won't have several people because you can use software to do customer reviews and customer feedback and community upvoting and downvoting for features. There's all sorts of software suites that really removes the need for humans while still allowing the most important humans to get the information they need to feed the AI, but the data so that the AI can help them to create the to make the decisions.”
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