AI Codes: Product Engineers Decide What to Build | Laurie Voss, Arize

Laurie Voss co-founded npm - now head of developer relations at Arize, he argues that engineers will increasingly earn their keep as 'product engineers': understanding what users need and directing AI agents to build it. Full transcript and chapters: https://chainofthought.show/podcast/74-ai-codes-product-engineers-decide-what-to-build-laurie-voss/ One example: a bakery owner who knows how to make a croissant but has no interest in building software. Someone still has to turn that owner's needs into requirements. Laurie sees that work becoming central to product engineering, with cheaper code