The stakes are higher for any PMs in the era of LLM driven solutions.
LLM models are a real source of leverage for any product team. Able to accomplish far more and faster than ever without organizational bottlenecks is every product team's dream come true.
Engineer can do business research with a quick prompt. PM can build an interactive prototype in a matter of minutes. And, designer can write a web application.
All this to say, the boundaries between specialization are narrowing. Specialization itself is becoming a liability when skillsets are interchangeable across cross-functional teams.
When the conditions start to shift what do you double down on?
The signal should always be the user!
A good PM deploys and moves on to the next thing. A great PM take their users from current state to their desired state.
In other words, the job is to bridge the product and market. Speed without getting things done right is not effective.
Sailing with an aimless destination is a hobby not a business.
What gets the team to their north star isn't the speed alone, or the ability to ship faster than the competition. It is the judgment to know what to build, the taste to know how it should feel, and the vision to see where the users want to go before they can articulate it themselves.
The raw materials are changing, but the north star remains the same.