Hi there,

Anyone can open a pull request now. That raises a harder question. Who owns the code once it exists? Jáchym Dvořák, an AI engineer here at Productboard, spends his days on the line where PMs and engineers meet, the product spec. He argues that as building gets cheaper, the two sides need to talk more, not less.

A few highlights from the post:

• Where a spec should stop and the implementation plan begins, and why missing that line makes the wrong person decide the product
• What a “product engineer” actually does, pushing back on a spec with “I’d build this differently to hit the customer outcome” before any code exists
• Why the expensive part is no longer building but choosing what to build, and why that call can’t be made alone in a doc or in code

If your team is redrawing who owns what now that anyone can ship code, this one’s worth a read.