I came up through product at Amazon, Cash App, and Anduril. High-volume environments where the gap between a good decision and a slow one was measurable, and where understanding how systems actually worked was the job, not a side skill.

As AI changed what was possible, my role shifted too. PM work started contracting. The coordination layer, the synthesis, the structured thinking that filled most of the role turned out to be compressible. I did not fight that. I followed the signal.

Now I sit at the line between product thinking and architecture. I design systems, write code, ship things. AI has made it possible for almost anyone to move fast and build quickly. What it has not replaced is the judgment required to understand how agentic systems should be orchestrated, what the failure modes are, and whether what is being built is actually correct for the problem.

That is the gap I work in. Fast enough to build. Technical enough to know why something is wrong before it is in production. Experienced enough in operations to know what actually matters to the business on the other side.