Barbell Product Roles: Why AI Shifts PMs to Decision‑Making
As AI automates code, product managers spend far less time building and far more time deciding which problems to solve and how to sell them. Mironov calls this the ‘barbell’ role—heavy on market discovery at one end and go‑to‑market execution at the other, with engineering sandwiched in between. Ignoring the split risks building tech no one buys.