Over the years, writing code steadily became less hard. Frameworks, libraries did the heavy lifting.
Now, AI is shrinking implementation time to zero, removing our last speed bump.
The ultimate differentiator remains: system scale and product design.
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Is Marty Cagan's 1:10 PM-to-SDE ratio breaking?
Uber runs at 1:5; Apple is at 1:30. Meanwhile, AI startups are ditching the split entirely for "Product Engineers" who design, code, and ship end-to-end.
As AI cuts coding time, is the role merging or is the ratio just dropping?