Product Managers Writing Code With AI Assistance

PMs at Notion are shipping pull requests. Product managers writing and merging code into production. A year ago that sentence would’ve gotten you laughed out of a product leadership Slack. Figma’s PM org reportedly cut their average feature cycle from 6 weeks to 3 after standardizing Claude Code workflows internally. Linear’s team has talked publicly about PMs prototyping directly in their codebase. This tells you everything about where PM hiring is headed. The gap between “PM who can go from insight to working prototype” and “PM who writes a spec and waits 2 sprints” is becoming the new senior vs junior divide. Except it has nothing to do with years of experience. The last time a tool shift redrew PM job descriptions this fast was when Figma made every PM a passable wireframer around 2019-2020. That took 2 years to become table stakes. Claude Code is moving faster because the output is code, not mockups, and code ships.