Andrew Ng's tweet on PMs being the new bottleneck is 100% true
Saw Andrew Ng tweeting about the "Product Management Bottleneck" and ngl it hit way too close to home.. He was saying AI makes coding so fast that the real constraint now is just deciding what to build. I'm seeing this exact nightmare unfold at work right now because our devs are literally flying through sprints using Cursor and shipping crazy fast but on the product side we are hopelessly stuck in endless alignment meetings and compliance checks. It feels like tech is on steroids while product discovery is still running on dial-up. Idk if other PMs are feeling this heat but it is getting embarrassing yaar. We spend three weeks debating a feature that a dev now builds in three hours. AI isn't just changing how we code, it is brutally exposing how slow and bureaucratic Indian product management actually is. You can't even hide behind "dev bandwidth" anymore when the engineers are sitting idle waiting for PRDs to be approved by four different stakeholders who can't make up their minds. Are we just going to become the new legacy bottleneck or is anyone actually figuring out how to move fast in this alignment hell?
Agreed. Haven’t read that post, but the point makes sense. Besides, many Product Managers are mediocre and lazy. While mediocre techies have got the help of GenAI, mediocre PMs don’t have that much help from GenAI believe (at least compared to the help that tech folks are getting). So yes, PMs and POs are the biggest hurdles in this fast moving world. On an counternote though, they may also be saviours in disguise for some of the tech folks!!
Haha exactly. Devs have Cursor doing the heavy lifting now, but you can't really automate stakeholder alignment yet. Maybe slowing things down is actually saving us from shipping too much garbage lol.
I think it's about quality and quantity, right ? Isn't building things which are actually used by the end user the most important rather than rushing toward things ?
