Interesting video of a talk at Stanford on the changing world of AI, coding and the work environment.

• The 5 people you spend most of your time with have most influence on your habits and outlook (choose the right people)
• there was much reduced hiring during the pandemic, followed by large-scale hiring in the years afterwards
• some were hired into the wrong role or were not suitable, now being let go (in addition to the impact of AI)
• software engineers are able to be more productive but AI has not had the same impact on product management productivity
• historically there has been a 1 to 8 or 10 Product Manager to Developer ratio, now the ratio is levelling out and there is a need for more product managers
• conventional advice for interviews is to be firm when answering difficult questions / discussion where you don’t have an answer
• at the same time, it’s important to not come across as aggressive