Marc Andreessen: prediction

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…Mm-hmm. And then there's... If you watch John Woo movies, he loves to have... He does the three-way Mexican standoff, where you've got like a triangle, people. And of course, John Woo movies, they've got guns in both hands. So, each is aiming at the other two and you've got this kind of standoff situation. And so the way I've been describing this is there's like a Mexican standoff happening between those three roles: between product manager, designer, and coder. Specifically, the following, which is every coder now believes they can also be a product manager and a designer because they have AI, every product manager thinks they can be a coder and a designer, and then every designer knows they can be a product manager and a coder. And so, people in each of those roles now know or believe that with AI, they don't need the other two roles anymore. They can do that because they can have AI do that. And then of course, there's the real irony, which is all three of them are going to realize that AI can also be a better manager. So, they're going to be aiming the guns up the org chart, but that's the next phase. And what I think is so fascinating about this Mexican standoff is they're actually all kind of correct, I think. Which is, AI is actually a pretty good... It's actually now a really good coder, it's actually now a really good designer, and it's also a really good product manager. It's actually good at doing all three of those things, or at least doing a lot of the tasks involved in those three jobs. And so again, this goes back to this idea of the super-empowered individual. Where if I'm a coder, step one is I need to make sure that I really understand AI coding, and what that means, and how coding is going to change in the future. I need to understand specifically how to go from being a coder who writes code entirely by hand to being a coder who orchestrates a dozen instances of coding bots. There's a change in the actual job of coding itself, which is happening right now. But the other part of it is, "Okay, how do I become that super-empowered individual? How do I become a coder that also then harnesses AI so that I can also be a great product manager, and I can also be a great designer?" And then the same thing for the product manager, which is, "How do I make sure that I can now use coding tools? How do I make sure I can also do AI-based design?" And the same thing for the designer, which is, "How do I use AI to also become a coder, and also become a product manager?" And then what you get is maybe, those individual roles change. Maybe, those are not any more sort of stovepipe roles the way that they have been for the last 30 years or whatever. But what happens is that the talented people in any of those roles become super powered, and they become good at doing all three of those things. that they have been for the last 30 years or whatever. But what happens is that the talented people in any of those roles become super powered, and they become good at doing all three of those things. And then, those people become incredibly valuable, because then those are people who can actually build and design new products from scratch, which is the most valuable thing. And so, I think that's the opportunity.…

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