Staff vs Line

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No time for the staffers; no time for the talkers. "Action this day"!

"I preferred to deal with chiefs of organisations rather than counsellors. Everyone should do a good day’s work and be accountable for some definite task."

"It is easier to give directions than advice, and more agreeable to have the right to act, even in a limited sphere, than the privilege to talk at large"

Winston Churchill, WWII Memoirs

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Be careful!

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A wise man once said: Be careful who you let on your ship, because some people will sink the whole ship just because they can't be captain.

Anonymous

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Blurring the role: Product Managers and Engineers

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From Daniel Miessler's newsletter (somewhat paraphrased)

The line between the product manager and the engineer is blurring as more PM (product manager) tasks subsume what used to be an engineer's task because of the availability of an AI engine which the PM can prompt.

Miessler opines:

"This shouldn’t be surprising since the primitives here are 1) knowing what you want to build, 2) knowing why you want to build that vs. something else, and 3) pursuing that. "

The source for this insight is here LINK

Related: 

Other reports and articles report the decline generally in the industry for "coders". This job is being taken over by AI Agents. At the Davos Economic forum in January 2025, the Salesforce.com CEO said he wasn't hiring any software engineers on a net basis. New jobs would large go to digital agents.

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