I agree with your point about great narrowing, but I also expect complexity to increase accordingly. Yes, in the past you needed 10 engineers to solve a problem, and now you need only 2. How I see this - problems will become more complicated, so that you still need 10 engineers to maintain your business profitable and competitive.
I do not believe in PM making good engineering solutions, even with AI. Similarly to engineers, not interested in product, products have no interest in engineering. However you still need someone responsible for the decisions.
One possible future I’m considering is humanity converging to a “unit of responsibility” - in order to run a company with a certain scale you’ll need to have N humans responsible for different parts of the business.
I do not believe in PM making good engineering solutions, even with AI. Similarly to engineers, not interested in product, products have no interest in engineering. However you still need someone responsible for the decisions.
One possible future I’m considering is humanity converging to a “unit of responsibility” - in order to run a company with a certain scale you’ll need to have N humans responsible for different parts of the business.