Your Next Pull Request Will Come From a Product Manager

For my entire career, I’ve built tools and platforms for a specific person: the professional software engineer. We’ve focused on optimizing their workflows, supercharging their IDEs and streamlining their CI/CD pipelines. We’ve operated under a simple, unwritten rule: Developers write code, and everyone else files tickets.

That era is over.

Generative AI coding tools like GitHub Copilot, Cursor and v0 are not just making developers far more productive. They are fundamentally changing the definition of who a “developer” is. These…