VC founder says product managers will be hot hires in the AI era
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As models commoditize, judgment about what to build and how to ship it becomes the scarce asset—hence the renewed focus on PMs as 'taste' and constraint. If you're hiring around AI, over-index on operators who can say no to features and shape coherent workflows, not just prompt engineers.
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