AI turned every engineer into three. Now companies need more product thinkers
Anthropic told its growth team to hire more product managers, not fewer, because Claude Code tripled engineering output, shifting the bottleneck from the IDE to deciding what to build. The bottleneck in software is no longer typing—it's deciding what to type. Engineers who treat that as someone else's problem risk plateauing.
AI turned every engineer into three. Now companies need more product thinkers
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