What I really like here is that you’re naming the emotional side of this shift without dramatizing it.
A lot of people talk about AI replacing roles, but what actually happens first is much stranger: it starts taking over the parts of the job that gave people coherence.
Not just tasks. Identity.
That’s why “give away your Legos” feels so right here. The hard part is usually not losing the work. It’s losing the part of yourself that was organized around being the one who did it.
And I think that’s why some people get curious with AI while others immediately get defensive. Same tool, different experience of self.
This piece makes a strong case for something many people still resist: sometimes the real opportunity is not protecting your old usefulness, but becoming useful in a more human way.
Amplitude abstracted data retrieval. What you’re describing Claude doing is abstracting judgment, which is a different category. That is what makes the piece so interesting, and also where it gets more philosophically loaded than the optimism may suggest.
Love the point about great companies wanting to do more with more, instead of the same with less. Most people seem to default to the assumption that headcount should or will decrease with these tools. That is clearly one of the fastest ways to lose.
Thank you for responding to this tsunami of a moment with a frame for hope and positivity; you’re actually creating waves of your own that we all benefit from learning to ride, so thank you 😎
What I really like here is that you’re naming the emotional side of this shift without dramatizing it.
A lot of people talk about AI replacing roles, but what actually happens first is much stranger: it starts taking over the parts of the job that gave people coherence.
Not just tasks. Identity.
That’s why “give away your Legos” feels so right here. The hard part is usually not losing the work. It’s losing the part of yourself that was organized around being the one who did it.
And I think that’s why some people get curious with AI while others immediately get defensive. Same tool, different experience of self.
This piece makes a strong case for something many people still resist: sometimes the real opportunity is not protecting your old usefulness, but becoming useful in a more human way.
Amplitude abstracted data retrieval. What you’re describing Claude doing is abstracting judgment, which is a different category. That is what makes the piece so interesting, and also where it gets more philosophically loaded than the optimism may suggest.
Love the point about great companies wanting to do more with more, instead of the same with less. Most people seem to default to the assumption that headcount should or will decrease with these tools. That is clearly one of the fastest ways to lose.
Yeah! I also found myself falling into that pattern and then I started realizing, when has that ever happened?
Thank you for responding to this tsunami of a moment with a frame for hope and positivity; you’re actually creating waves of your own that we all benefit from learning to ride, so thank you 😎
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loved this one, Tal!
Wow, thanks for that, really inspiring! It's clearly one of the best takes on PMing in the age of AI that I've read.
I have sent around that first round article for many years! The connection to AI is spot on.
Right? Every time i reread it i notice another sentence that, if I had remembered it more often, would have saved me so much pain and heartache