Agreed. The sweet spot is people who have product owner skills _and_ can code. They are quickly developing superpowers. The overhead of writing tickets, communicating with the team and so on is huge. If one person can do it all, efficiency skyrockets.
I guess it's always been true to some extent that single individuals are capable of amazing things. For example, the guy who's built https://www.photopea.com/. But they must be exceptional - this empowers more people to do things like that.
Or people who can be product owners and can prompt LLMs to code (because I know him, that's me!).
I'm awestruck by how good Claude and Cursor are. I've been building a semi-heavy-duty tech product, and I'm amazed by how much progress I've made in a week, using a NextJS stack, without knowing a lick of React in the first place (I know the concepts, but not the JS/NextJS vocab). All the code has been delivered with proper separation of concerns, clean architecture and modularization. Any time I get an error, I can reason with it to find the issue together. And if Claude is stuck (or I'm past my 5x usage lol), I just pair programme with ChatGPT instead.
Meanwhile Google just continues to serve me outdated shit from preCovid.
90% of the way is still good enough for me because I can manage to think up and get through the rest of the 10%. The problem for me was that the 90% looked so overwhelming earlier and that would shy me away from pursuing that project at all.
I guess it's always been true to some extent that single individuals are capable of amazing things. For example, the guy who's built https://www.photopea.com/. But they must be exceptional - this empowers more people to do things like that.