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Technical depth is an essential skill for product managers. Technical Product managers will thrive in the age of AI product management.
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The orthodoxy that product managers should "stay strategic" and leave infrastructure to engineering is one of the most damaging beliefs in modern product development. PMs who understand and own infrastructure decisions ship faster, build better products, and make fewer costly mistakes. PMs with technical depth generally ship well rounded features than "strategy only" counterparts which means the gap between knowing your system and not knowing it shows up directly in your feature quality and your user experience.