I am a PM with 1.5 years of product experience and 4 years of engineering background (was honestly lucky to have broken into the field without an MBA) and now that I am finally trying to switch - it seems impossible. I get rejected without even reaching an interview. I see people in the field with more experience but really bad product experience land prestigious roles even AI PM roles without ever properly using Claude. Not able to make sense of the market, is this something you guys have also experienced or noticed? How would you go about navigating such a scenario?

3-year-old codebase, 2 senior devs who are careful about best practices, security, testing. They're also equal partners in the company, so any efficiency gain lands directly in their pockets.

I'm a PM. I asked this same question ~9 months ago and the consensus was: reading/reviewing AI-generated code is harder than writing it, so my PRs would just be a tax on the senior devs. Not worth it.

Models and tooling have moved a lot since then. Honest gut check:

A. Is it reasonable now for a PM to open PRs with code written via Opus 4.8 (or better), on the condition that every contribution goes through heavy QA and testing before merge?

B. Any world where a PM pushes without a PR? Or is that still insane?

Where's the line in July 2026?

Edit:

People are asking why this is even a need. Two reasons: (a) the devs are slammed with other projects, and (b) the info gap between me and them creates a lot of back-and-forth, ping-pong, slow turnaround. On roles: we're all equal partners, so better process and faster results benefit everyone regardless of our traditional titles. And it goes both ways - the devs are free to push AI- or human-driven PM-side upgrades too, and they sometimes do.

What are you using it for? Has it been helpful?

The doc is where the work happens for me, it's messy and real and full of points and counter points. Then the client wants a deck, so i sit there translating my own finished thinking into slides, and something always gets flattened in the move.

The ideas are done, i'm just re-typing them into boxes. is there a clean way to go from a turn doc to a deck the client respects, or do you all just accept the re-typing?? how do you all do it?

New to this world and the constant facilitation is taking a toll. As someone who is not a big fan of talking all the time, I sometimes have a moment of blankness/say something funny instead, mainly to fill the silence.
Any one else? Any stories to share?

Hi! I'm wiring up product analytics to our web app and chose PostHog for the session replays. I'm blocked on the first prereq which is compliance. What the hell is a DPA and do i really have to do this stuff? Thank you so much, really appreciate any help!

Hi all

I have to conduct a market research where I have to visit certain stores that sell products online and then understand some of their processes.

I have the stores that I want to visit/contact but I do not know how to approach without them ghosting me.

People who have done similar surveys, how did you approach them and convince them to give some of their time. I can try cold messaging but I feel it would get ignored easily.