AI Coding Tools Shift Bottleneck From Code to Decisions

Anthropic is hiring more product managers after Claude Code tripled its engineering team's output, moving the bottleneck from writing code to deciding what to build. The company's growth team restructuring signals a broader industry shift. For a decade, software engineering followed a predictable path focused on technical execution. Now that AI handles the typing, the scarce resource is product thinking — knowing what to build and why. Engineers who treat that as someone else's problem face a career plateau.