Read this series in order
What AI Changed About Being Good at Your Job
AI did not remove the desk job. It quietly moved the definition of good inside it. I follow that shift from the general claim to the market shape it creates, then to product management as a worked case, and finally to the personal question underneath: what your confidence was actually resting on.
Who this is for
Knowledge workers, product managers, engineers, and indie hackers who feel competent but sense the ground moving. It is especially useful for people whose value was built on broad, pretty good skills across several areas.
Why follow this series
Five essays on how AI redefined competence at work. They cover why execution speed stopped being scarce, why the competent middle became the most exposed position, how a good product manager now shows up with a working prototype and real edge cases, why a PM whose work was mostly language is about to be found out, and why your reaction to all of this works as a self-esteem test.
Recommended order
Each article carries the argument forward. Start where you need to, but the sequence is deliberate.
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Your Job Already Changed. You Just Didn't Notice.
You've spent years getting good at your role. Meanwhile, the definition of "good" quietly moved. Somewhere in your company, a person with your exact job tit...
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The Death of "Pretty Good"
You've spent years getting good at several things, and that (thanks to AI) is now becoming the most exposed position in the market. If that hits a nerve, kee...
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A Good Product Manager Already Built It. And Found the Bugs.
You were hired to take a PRD (Product Requirements Document) and turn it into working code. Now your product manager walks in with the working code and a lis...
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Product Managers Are About to Be Found Out
Most product work is language, and AI just learned to produce the language without the judgment underneath. The product manager most exposed is the one who c...
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AI Is a Self-Esteem Test
You've spent years becoming the person who does X. Now a machine can do X too. I've switched domains enough times to recognize a particular feeling. Not bec...