The skills AI is making more valuable, judgment and taste, aren't the ones you build alone at 11pm.

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Hi there

"I don't know what my job actually is anymore."

Jacob Miller, founder of PM Social Club and our co-host for a June 9 SF meetup, calls this the AI identity crisis. Something most PMs are experiencing, but few are willing to vocalize.

AI is making certain skills, like judgment and taste, more valuable. But day-to-day, building those skills is getting murky. Jacob argues the key isn't grinding alone at 11pm, it's leveraging your community to learn.

A few highlights from the post:

Why "taste" is the word every product person keeps landing on, and why AI is widening that gap, not closing it.
The exact pattern Jacob sees in PMs navigating the shift well: deep research to map the territory, then specific questions ("has anyone used Claude Code before writing the spec?") into a peer network.
Why the PM role is structurally lonely (the connective tissue across eng, design, and data, never quite embedded in any one team) and why that isolation compounds exactly when the job is shifting under you.

If your instinct right now is to close the laptop and open another course, read this first.

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