I sat down with my co-founder Jonathan for a special edition. No news, no memes, just the meta: the traditional product management role is dissolving, and something new is taking its place. We build the episode around Boris Cherny's five emerging archetypes (prototyper, builder, sweeper, grower, maintainer) and why they matter more than the titles on your org chart.
We get into the pro-worker AI economics paper from Acemoglu, Autor, and Johnson, how product roles evolved from the copilot era to full recomposition, and why every "AI is coming for your job" headline misses what's in the data. The core insight: AI isn't automating product teams out of existence. It's freeing them from backlog-junkie work so real judgment moves up the stack.
We close with a live demo of our open-source Clarity harness and the question nobody's asking: if your A-players are training the agents, are you paying them for the leverage they create?
If you're a head of product, engineer, designer, or IC trying to figure out where you fit as these roles blur together, this one's for you.
Hosted by Robert Ta and Jonathan McCoy, co-founders of Clarity, reporting from the front lines of building an AI company.