[Swizec]

> It's this kind of thing that makes me think tackling big feature requests is still an AGI-complete problem. Perhaps if it gets good enough at pure coding you can iterate your way to success.

I think you’ve just invented product managers. This used to be part of a software engineer’s job. Back when inputting code into a computer was so labor intensive that you’d write your program then hand it off to another human to translate into machine code.

Then we invented compilers and now programming can take up a whole person’s day so programmers stopped having time to do product management. That became a full-time job supplying 4+ programmers with enough work to stay busy.

If we can replace those 4 programmers with AI, software engineers will once more turn back into product managers.

The best product managers I’ve worked with have some combination of a comp sci and business background. The CS background helps a lot.

And some of the best software engineers I’ve worked with are basically their product manager’s right hand. Partnering smoothly in developing requirements, communicating technical feasibility, and deeply understanding their customers. They could be product managers but choose not to.