In the AI era attention is the new gold and this is a good argument against reducing headcount. You need a pool of attention that is going to be available to run all the items in your roadmap very fast.

The shape is contracting Product engineering got complicated for good reasons. Product managers to translate intent. Designers to translate experience. Engineers to translate constraints. Each role existed to own a part of the feedback loop process because no one person could hold all at once. At least not at scale. That is the assumption AI is dissolving. The translation layers between roles were never the work — they were the cost of distributing it across people.

I just needs to reach the point of replicating human-quality. If we reach that barrier at any point, the trillions invested in AI are going to evaporate, and there will be an incredible market crash. If we don’t reach that barrier, then I can’t imagine a world in which capitalism makes sense. https://www.scarletink.com/ai-and-the-imminent-death-of-capitalism/