Comment by perlgeek

Maybe.

Maybe now, or maybe in a year or two, AI coding tools will be good enough that a single semi-technical person can be Product Manager for a small product, and implement all the feature through AI/LLM tools.

Probably not for something of the complexity of Google Maps, but for a simpler website with some interactive elements, that could work.

But then, this was just an example. There can be lots of reasons that companies still need engineers, my point was that they need to think about these reasons, and then use these reasons to decide how to select their engineers.