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So...software engineers become product managers? All of us? That's going to be an awful lot of product managers.

More like architects, in the civil engineering sense. Even if you don't pour concrete or drive nails yourself, you have to have a lot of technical understanding, including the low level, to be able to design a building competently. And, very certainly, you have to be able to inspect how the nails are driven and how the bricks are laid, whether your contractors are humans or robots.

I create a lot of applications with AI. I don't inspect any of the cod.

Maybe you should, something fishy may be going on in it.

Maybe I shouldn't. Something fishy may not be going on in it, and that would become a waste of time.

Full disclosure: it was a reference to the "cod" in your reply.

That was a typo from a phone keyboard.

And you're bragging about it? Lmao.

No. I'm stating a fact. You're free to state other facts if you like.

> And, very certainly, you have to be able to inspect how the nails are driven and how the bricks are laid, whether your contractors are humans or robots.

As someone coming from non-software engineering (mechanical), I always believed that good engineer is capable, and sometimes does these things himself. This guarantees he actually understands his domain in all aspects.

Or it could be an awful lot of productivity. We have to think bigger. What would the world look like if every programmer were a 10x (or whatever) programmer?

Sure. I'm with you. I'm just puzzled by the article.

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