Veteran tech investor Keith Rabois says the product manager role in tech 'makes no sense' in the era of AI

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Keith Rabois at The Hill & Valley Forum 2026 at Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium on March 24, 2026, in Washington, DC
Khosla Ventures' MD Keith Rabois.

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The next big job in tech may be the 'product engineer'

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A computer screen shows Anthropic's Claude
Anthropic first launched Claude to the broader public in July 2023. In recent months, interest in the AI chatbot has skyrocketed.

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Several Meta employees have started calling themselves 'AI builders'

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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

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A Meta product manager with no technical background says vibe coding gave him 'superpowers'

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A Meta product manager says vibe coding tools are letting non-technical product managers ship features.

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A Google AI product manager has a career advice: 'Be a crab'

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A Google AI product manager advises aspiring product managers to "be a crab" and transition into roles adjacent to their current experience.

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LinkedIn is scrapping its associate product manager program and rebuilding around full-stack talent

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LinkedIn is phasing out traditional product managers, replacing its APM track with a program that teaches new hires to design, code, and build end-to-end, said its chief product officer.

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Andrew Ng says the real bottleneck in AI startups isn't coding — it's product management

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Andrew Ng
Andrew Ng says AI has sped up coding, so product management is now the bottleneck for startups.

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I've been laid off from Microsoft twice. Having multiple income streams helped me stay level-headed through them both.

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Patrick Lyons standing in front of office wall with Microsoft sign.
Ex-Microsoft employee Patrick Lyons said a generous severance and multiple side businesses made the layoffs manageable.

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Meta salaries: See how much AI engineers, researchers, and more at the tech giant get paid

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A man takes pictures in front of a sign showing logo of Meta outside Facebook headquarters on October 28, 2021 in Menlo Park, California.
Meta headquarters in Menlo Park, California.

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I mentor startups outside my Meta product job. I tell founders to take 3 steps to sell their AI vision.

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Mahesh Chayel
Mahesh Chayel, a product management lead at Meta, told BI the three steps founders need to take to sell their AI vision.

Mahesh Chayel

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