I assume at least some of it was technical disagreement, so PMs sure but also TPMs and what have been called SWEs even if hypothetically we don't call them that any more because in the brave new AI world they don't need to directly create software any more.
(I've personally never applied to somewhere that advertised that it would call me a 'developer', because that just sounds like a very boring factory-line 'churn out the code as described in this work ticket' role to me, that I don't want and didn't get a professional degree for, even before all this LLM/'agentic' possibility.)
I assume at least some of it was technical disagreement, so PMs sure but also TPMs and what have been called SWEs even if hypothetically we don't call them that any more because in the brave new AI world they don't need to directly create software any more.
(I've personally never applied to somewhere that advertised that it would call me a 'developer', because that just sounds like a very boring factory-line 'churn out the code as described in this work ticket' role to me, that I don't want and didn't get a professional degree for, even before all this LLM/'agentic' possibility.)