Cat Wu: belief

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…Wow. Cause that's, that's the big question. Like there's definitely this emerging that's happening. The Venn diagrams are combining. I think the big question for a lot of people is if you're coming from engineering or product or design, which of those core skills is going to be most valuable. I could see it anthropic and on cloud code engineering is very valuable. I'm curious if other companies, if you have a design background, becoming a PM is more valuable or just a PM PM. I still think it comes back to product taste. Like as code becomes much cheaper to write, The thing that becomes more valuable is deciding what to write. What is the right UX for this feature? What is the most delightful way that a user can experience it? We get tens of thousands of GitHub issues asking for every single thing under the sun, and it takes a lot of care and taste to figure out, okay, which of these is worth building and what is the right way to build it? And I think that That skill set can come from any background, but I think that's the most important thing. I think the reason why an engineering background is particularly useful, at least for the next few months, is if you have an engineering background, you have a better sense for how hard something should be. And that's often a factor in what you choose to build. So like if something is very easy to build, then maybe instead of debating it, you just spend an hour doing it. But if something is harder to build and you know that upfront, then you know that, okay, this will just cost a lot more for our team to get this out the door. So it helps a bit with the prioritization. You said for the next few months, is that just because the models will get so good potentially in the next few months, you may not even need to know that as much?…

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