AI Will Not Kill PM. It Will Expose Fake PM.
When building gets cheap, the bottleneck moves to problem discovery and outcome ownership. The PM who writes tickets gets exposed. The PM who owns the outcome gets stronger.
The ticket-writing version of PM is dying.
Not because AI is replacing product managers. Because when building something takes 6 days instead of 6 weeks, the PM who translates executive decisions into Jira tickets stops being the person the team needs.
When building gets cheap, deciding what to build becomes the bottleneck. The PM who discovers real problems, defines success before the sprint starts, and owns the outcome against real evidence gets stronger. The PM who writes acceptance criteria for someone else's idea is overhead.
The real PM job was always problem ownership, not process management. AI did not change the job. It stopped letting the other parts of the job provide cover for people who were not doing it.
The PM who was mainly coordinating is about to be visible in a way they were not before.
AI will not kill PM.
It will expose fake PM.
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