Product owners/managers typically act as the communication channel between customers and software engineers, but engineers are responsible for designing the software. It is they who have to use judgment, anticipation, and deal with ambiguity in order to find software customers want to use. The product owner/manager does not. They simply pass messages back and forth. Of course it is possible for one person to be both a product owner and a software engineer, but often the engineer is separated from having to play telephone tag with customers so that they can more efficiently focus on their primary task.
Perhaps you have confused software engineer with coder? LLMs are most definitely the final death knell for anyone still working as a coder, but that profession was on the way out for decades already. The earlier comment was clear about software engineer.
Perhaps you have confused software engineer with coder? LLMs are most definitely the final death knell for anyone still working as a coder, but that profession was on the way out for decades already. The earlier comment was clear about software engineer.