The Best AI Engineers Are Product Managers

The Best AI Engineers Are Product Managers Why the skills that make great PMs are the same skills that unlock AI productivity You hired a brilliant engineer. Top of their class, fluent in multiple coding languages. A full-stack developer who can optimize a database query in their sleep. Truly someone who communes with the machine. And you have provided them with access to the best AI coding tools money can buy. Six weeks later, they're frustrated. The AI "writes terrible code." It produces garbage. It hallucinates. It ignores instructions. Meanwhile, a product manager down the hall (with a computer science minor from fifteen years ago) is creating impressive POCs for new concepts, and is actually shipping features that work. What's happening here isn't about intelligence or technical skill. It's about using a completely different capability set to get the most from the tools...a skillset that engineering programs rarely teach, and which many experienced engineers have