Ask HN: How should product managers use LLMs to stand out in the job market?
I'm a Product Manager who can write code, and have also spent almost 10 years in a sales role. Current LLMs are a huge productivity uplift for me in the minimal time I get to make prototypes.
However, product managers who can design and or write code...seems like table stakes these days. Is there a precedent for how product managers can use these LLMs and supporting tools to differentiate in a seemingly tough job market?
I suspect that one way to differentiate is to establish expertise in new and developing areas (e.g. Developer Experience for AI tools/services).
Does ancillary things like publishing content (podcasts/blogs), networking, etc. help differentiate in the market? Anyone can use AI to write code, so it's not really a differentiating skill. Having a strong understanding of how to fix and deploy the code that AI writes for you would be marketable and differentiating though. Look into SRE and CI/CD techniques if you want to expound on the demos that ChatGPT can write for you. I appreciate the feedback. To be honest, fixing code that doesn't work from an LLM is usually pretty easy. I'm not interested in adopting many SRE skills or CI/CD techniques since a lot of that is not a differentiated skill for product managers. I imagine that a lot of service operations tasks will be be supported by automated tools so it becomes less valuable over time anyway.