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AI has become a way for engineers, designers and product managers to wish each other away instead of working together.

Drawn from what Frank Chimero said

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design How things should be made and judged: what makes a design good, who should do the designing, and what an interface is for.

product management What a product manager is for, who decides what gets built, and what happens to that job once delivery is cheap.

What is a PM for, now that building is cheap?under our view: A team needs fewer product managers, or none, because the people who build can make the product calls themselves Who should design software, and how?under our view: Design is everyone's job: whoever shapes the outcome is designing, and increasingly that includes the users

What Frank Chimero actually said

  1. Frank Chimero Designer and writer in New York
    The fractures fell neatly along disciplines: engineers using AI to wish away designers, designers wishing away engineers, product managers wishing away both. In this climate, AI becomes frenemy identification technology, another way to avoid working together.

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