[bushido]

That's partly the harness for me. I do believe product managers are still important, but they're important in deciding what gets shipped, not what gets built.

Engineers are still important. They're important in building the harness to ensure that anything which is being built/shipped is of sufficient quality.

In my opinion, testing/QA/etc is now the core product.

But the best code that you'll get is literally connecting to the pain point the customer was saying to the agentic workflow that is building your product.

Bad customer communication in my experience is the result of every person who handled the convo pre-engineers posturing the message trying to make sure the next person is motivated to get it to the next gatekeeper.

This is all very biased based on my own workflow though.