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.

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