The AI acceleration has given a lot of software orgs fairly dramatic balancing problems; the coding output is vastly higher - but that means that every other process in the life cycle of software also needs rescaling and reconsidering - it's exactly like the fact that traffic in a city really does notn improve if you connect a large highway into an old urban environment with small roads. You just get infinite congestion. Software teams have the same struggle, dealing with all that power.
One of the things that goes seriously out of whack is the input side - your product managers and customer facing discovery team suddenly need to produce an enormous amount of great ideas to work on. This quickly breaks - unless the people who previously wrote lines of code rise to the occasion and build their product sense and product understanding; so they can maintain course without too much feedback. If all the AIs do is saturate the PMs with questions, then not a lot has been gained.
I've been saying to everyone in my team for a while now that you're all product managers now. You're the product manager for a team of agents and you better get good at it. So this post hit home for me.
I recently decided to get serious about this - so now I'm building internal training on core PM sensibilities for everyone. I made a really short slide deck to put the point across and .. here's how that came out. I'm pretty happy with it - let me know if it's useful. You can download it here. And yes, Claude was involved along the way - this is still a very nice and clean deck, in my humble opinion.