AI Isn’t Killing Product Management. It’s Expanding It.

I keep seeing hot takes that AI is the death of product management. I don’t buy it. If anything, this moment feels like a return to what the role was always supposed to be. Product managers have never been defined by artifacts or ceremonies. The best ones have always been the people willing to do whatever it takes to move the objective forward. Translate context. Connect dots. Reduce ambiguity. Ship. I believe AI and personal software just expand that toolkit. Over the last few weeks, I’ve built multiple pieces of personal software using tools like Cursor, Vercel, and Supabase. Not demos. Not slides. Real tools in production that work exactly the way I need them to work, without waiting on a roadmap or compromising on someone else’s assumptions. What’s interesting is how directly this reinforces the core skills that have always mattered. Understanding measures of success becomes clearer when you can prototype and test value yourself. Knowing your audience deepens when you can tailor tools and workflows to real behavior. Storytelling improves when you can show, not just tell. When you own your stack, even at a small scale, you stop acting like a project manager coordinating dependencies and start behaving like a builder who can experiment, learn faster, and solve real problems. Sometimes those problems are organizational. Sometimes they’re operational. Sometimes they’re just your own. This feels less like the death of product management and more like its next phase. A more technical, more opinionated, more empowered version of the role. Still deeply human. Still customer-obsessed. Just less constrained. Curious how y'all see it. Is AI replacing product managers, or giving us more leverage?