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PMs Can Code With AI but Engineers Must Set Expectations: Cursor Staff ...
Eric Zakariasson, an engineer at Cursor, said that AI is enabling product managers to build prototypes more easily. Samuel Boivin/NurPhoto via Getty Images 2026-04-29T07:36:37.202Z A Cursor engineer says AI tools let product managers build prototypes without backend systems. But engineers should set "clear expectations" to improve the workflow, says Eric Zakariasson. His comments come as the role of product managers and engineers shifts in the AI era. While product managers are spinning up prototypes with AI-assisted coding tools, engineers are left to make them production-ready. Eric Zakariasson, an engineer at Cursor who focuses on developer experience and product, said at the AI Engineer Europe 2026 conference in a recording published Tuesday that setting "clear expectations" between engineering and product teams could help smooth workflows.That includes defining "what engineers kind of want from the product organization and what's most helpful for them," he said."Maybe not vibe coding complete SaaS products is the most efficient thing," he added, referring to fully functioning apps.Zakariasson said product managers can now create interactive prototypes without touching backend systems using AI-assisted coding tools. Those prototypes can show how a product should behave — what happens when a user clicks a button or submits a form. However, these products don't need to be fully working, "just enough, to like, your engineers can understand," Zakariasson said.Product managers become AI buildersProduct managers are increasingly expected to build their own prototypes, experimenting with vibe coding as the lines between product and engineering blur.Business Insider reported in February that some Meta product managers have started calling themselves "AI builders," reflecting how AI coding tools are expanding who can build software inside the company.This shift also comes from a broader leadership push. During Meta's Q4 2025 earnings call, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said AI tools would fundamentally change how work gets done across the company in 2026."We're investing in AI-native tooling, so individuals at Meta can get more done," Zuckerberg said. "We're elevating individual contributors and flattening teams. We're starting to see projects that used to require big teams now be accomplished by a single very talented person."Other companies are also rethinking traditional roles. Last year, LinkedIn said it would scrap its associate product manager program and rep...
Is Software Engineering 'Cooked'? The Future Of Development Post AI
AI has changed coding forever. Just last month, Sam Altman, cofounder and CEO of OpenAI, posted a thank-you note to developers on X marking a massive shift in the industry.“I have so much gratitude to people who wrote extremely complex software character-by-character. It already feels difficult to remember how much effort it really took. Thank you for getting us to this point," the post said.The implication of the post was that the days of manual coding were coming to an end. A new generation of AI-driven tools like Claude Code, Cursor and Codex are now capable of generating code from scratch. Now, many up and coming developers are seeing less demand for their skills.According to a Federal Reserve Bank of New York study released in 2025, fresh computer science graduates are facing unemployment rates of 6.1% to 7.5%, more than double that of biology and art history majors. As AI begins to automate code creation, many are starting to ask, is software engineering “cooked”?The Software Engineer Role TodayThe future of software engineering has been a frequent topic of discussion among AI leaders. In February 2026, Boris Cherney, creator and head of Anthropic’s Claude Code, said that the software engineer title is going to start going away by the end of the year and “it’s going to be painful for a lot of people.”His comments align with Dario Amodei, cofounder and CEO of Anthropic who predicted at the World Economic Forum that “we might be 6-12 months away from models doing all of what software engineers do end-to-end.”While Cherney and Amodei’s comments could be dismissed as an attempt to hype code creation tools, there seems to be a growing number of software engineers struggling to find work in the market.Garrett Rose, a full-stack engineer with three and a half years of experience in the industry, recently put out a YouTube video claiming that the stress of the job market had contributed to a subconjunctival hemorrhage. Rose was laid off from his previous job 8 to 9 months ago, a layoff which he attributes to AI. Rose is now one of many engineers struggling to find roles in the industry.“I am indeed very concerned with the future of software engineering. I understand that technology shifts and becomes more abstract from its core implementations. However, what AI is doing is training off of every software engineer that ever wrote code pushed to the web,” Rose told me via email.While Rose doesn’t believe software engineering has been made obsolete by AI yet, he...
AI for Product Managers: PRDs, Research, and Prioritisation
Practical AI workflows for product managers covering PRD drafting, user research synthesis, prioritisation frameworks, and the tools that work for each task.
AI Tools for Product Managers: The Modern PM Stack
TLDR The modern PM stack runs on AI at every step: Cursor and Claude Code for build, Pencil and Claude Design for prototyping, Courier for notifications and agent communication, Segment for routing product events and engagement data, PostHog for analytics and LLM evals, and a knowledge system like Notion for shared memory across humans and agents.
