AI did not kill the engineer — it forced every engineer to become a product engineer. Why the biggest career shift in a generation is already underway.
Product Engineers Are Eating the World
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Ticketing Systems Are an Antipattern for Team Collaboration
The ticketing system user interface is an antipattern for cross-team collaboration
If your team spends most of its time managing a ticketing system — filing requests, triaging queues, waiting for answers — you have already made your collaboration legible to a machine.
That is not a metaphor. Ticketing systems only work for the kind of work AI handles well: routine, well-defined, known destination, repeatable process. If your collaboration looks like a queue, it can be automated. And it will be.
When Doing Stopped Being Learning
AI decoupled doing from learning. Every knowledge worker now faces a constant trade-off between the two. The ones who choose learning look slower today and become irreplaceable tomorrow.
The Fast Track to Incompetence
AI accelerates the Peter’s Principle by letting people produce senior-level output without building senior-level understanding — creating a new class of ‘Senior Operators’ who have mastered the interface, not the craft.
Your Pipeline IS Your Culture
Your p50 time-to-production is the single most predictive metric of developer happiness, value delivery, and organizational health.
The Dark Side of Authority
Why using authority to decide can hurt your team’s growth. Learn the power of influence over formal authority in product management and leadership.