The Venn Diagram of PM, Design & Engineering Is Collapsing

The designer on your product team is writing production code now. Not a prototype. Production code. On the latest Talking AI clip, Lane Shackleton describes what happened to the classic product tripod of PM, designer, and engineer. Those roles are collapsing into each other, and he thinks it is transforming every aspect of how his teams work. He is careful to say the overlap was always the good part. Even before AI, the best PMs had design chops and engineering chops, and the best engineers were product thinkers. The Venn diagram overlapping was a feature, not a staffing accident. What changed is the frequency. It is happening all day, every day. When a designer feels strongly about an idea, they no longer build a slow prototype. They demonstrate how it would actually feel in production. The other direction matters more than people admit. Engineers who understand the deepest underpinnings of a system propose product ideas a PM or designer would never reach for, and he credits that for part of what shipped in Superhuman's new databases work. The overlap used to be a nice-to-have on a job description. Now it is the job. #ProductTeams #ProductManagement #AINative #TalkingAI #FutureOfWork