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Becky Schmidt retweeted
Narrative violation: Product managers are benefiting most in the AI era
There’s been a lot of talk about AI replacing product managers (“who needs ’em!”). But so far, the data is showing the exact opposite.
There are more open PM roles than at any point in nearly four years, up 75% from the March 2023 low, and PM openings have grown faster than any other core product role since the start of 2023.
More here: lennysnewsletter.com/i/22420…
STATE OF THE TECH JOB MARKET IN 2026
Twice a year, I dig into trends in hiring and job openings. This is the fifth report I've done, and the most surprising yet:
1. PMs are winning in the AI era
2. Engineering demand has stalled
3. Design openings are at a record low
4. Every role now requires AI skills
5. Tech jobs are concentrating in the Bay Area
6. Remote roles are at a record low
7. The tech job market is growing fast, but mostly outside of software (gasp!)
Full report here: lennysnewsletter.com/p/state…
Becky Schmidt retweeted
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Maybe the future of hiring with so many bots. Or if you point your bot at it, it’s much more obvious and has to show really good uses of AI.
Most of the replies are pissed there’s no job description or they don’t know what the company does
That’s the point... This is a co hiring people who take initiative w/o asking + are plugged into the industry
Cutting edge startups don’t want to hire ppl they need to spoon feed
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This is DEFINITELY an AI psychosis take. People like AI because they can do less. But building your own furniture is doing WAAAAAYYY more hah
Claude Code can design furniture part by part and then give you a bill of materials to order each part and put it together yourself
And way cheaper than big interior brands sell you their furniture
Furnishing my house I discovered how absolutely insane prices are for the most basic cheap materials put together with a fancy brand tied to it
One shop had a sofa for $30,000 😂
I think with Opus 5.5 and other models easily operating 3d programs like Blender and FreeCAD (both free) it makes more sense to cut out the middle man and go straight to suppliers and design and build your own furniture
Which in a way makes customers more powerful (they can get exactly what they want and usually for cheaper without the markup)
Anyway @theannalux designed this table from scratch, she's not a furniture designer, not a coder, she just had an idea of a style and worked with Claude Code in the terminal (far superior to the app I will keep saying this)
If you design your own furniture and buy the raw materials directly, you can save 85% compared to premium brands like Poliform
That means the $30,000 sofa becomes $4,500! And the $8,000 dinner table becomes just $1,200!
You can see where the idea comes from that AI will make everything 5x to 20x cheaper, and it's already starting!
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I am once again using Gemini for asking questions because I can’t take ChatGPT’s 10 paragraph essay with a quiz at the end.
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Becky Schmidt retweeted
1/ What's the difference between "product builder" and "product manager"? I analyzed 69 product builder job descriptions to find out: remotepmjobs.com/blog/produc…
Becky Schmidt retweeted
America does not belong to those who hate it.
America belongs to those who love it.
The phone app giving 2 options for UI layout like it’s Facebook from 2012? Just commit to your product decisions!!!
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3/ Most builder roles are at larger companies trying to get back startup speed; at small startups, the PM title already includes building.
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2/ TL;DR: A product manager decides what to build and why, and works with design and engineering to get it shipped. A product builder does all three, using AI tools to prototype, design and often write the code.
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1/ What's the difference between "product builder" and "product manager"? I analyzed 69 product builder job descriptions to find out: remotepmjobs.com/blog/produc…
The giant icon + name in Liquid Glass over the actual message contents iMessage was… a choice 🥴
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This quick timer action is just…horrible. The slider is too sensitive, it doesn’t reliably disappear and gets stuck open at the top of the screen, and doesn’t reliably show the timer in the Dynamic Island once set
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