Lenny Rachitsky

So, uh, so to me, it makes sense.

It is so fun.

Yeah, just like progress.

You just make so much progress.

It's like, look at this thing go.

It's getting better.

There's so many directions we can go here.

One thing I want to throw out, it's kind of a hot take, and this came from a chat I just had with Amol, the head of growth at Anthropic.

So he's at a growth, he's a PM.

And he had this really interesting point that as engineers can do so much more, PMs are getting squeezed because they have to stay on top of so many things, so many features, so many ideas, so much doc, so many things being said to them.

And there's this push for PMs at companies to ship yards, build stuff themselves.

And what we took away from that chat is like the leverage that PMs often have is a lot higher, not spending time coding and shipping.

But instead, just like staying on top of all this stuff.

And he's like, we need more PMs now.

There's so much for PMs to do because engineers are so fast.

So there's still need for like prototyping to explore ideas and ideate and get feedback and align.

But he had an interesting take that like, I don't want to be like, it's better I don't spend time shipping stuff.

It's better I do higher leverage work as a PM.

That is such a good distinction and it makes all the sense.

Basically, it's make yourself scale through software as much as possible.