Narrative violation: Product managers are benefiting most in the AI era
There’s been a lot of talk about AI replacing product managers (“who needs ’em!”). But so far, the data is showing the exact opposite.
There are more open PM roles than at any point in nearly four years, up 75% from the March 2023 low, and PM openings have grown faster than any other core product role since the start of 2023.
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The big grey cloud is such an important concept lost on most corporates. "execs" who never have to interact with unmediated from the company.
All they ever hear is how well everything is going. Until it's too late.
Marc Andreessen worked at IBM at the peak of their power.
There were 12 layers of management between him as an intern and the CEO.
He describes what that meant: if one layer lies to the layer above it, maybe that's okay. Two or three layers, the lies compound. Six layers, they really compound.
Twelve layers... The CEO has absolutely no idea what's happening inside his own company.
IBM even had a name for it. They called it the Big Gray Cloud, the cloud of men in gray suits that followed the CEO everywhere and made it physically impossible for him to ever talk to someone actually doing the work.
"It was like a visit from the king. The king and the traveling court. A completely impervious bubble."
That company controlled 80% of tech. Then it didn't.
Elon looked at that model and built the opposite.
The most dangerous thing in a large organization isn't incompetence.
It's the distance between the truth and the top.
@Kevin_Logan Conspiracy theory: they are making grokbot low so when they release grok 4.8 and fix grokbot the experience uplift feels like a flying car.
The next ai breakthrough won't be intelligence, it'll be efficiency.
10x reduction in cost to serve, 10x increase in customer satisfaction.
A Fable model that never runs out of credits.