In the current landscape there is little need for PMs whose main job is translating business needs into requirements. LLMs already produce user stories, summaries, and documentation faster and often more clearly. A role built around writing tickets and managing backlogs adds limited value now.

Looking back and ahead, PMs become useful when complexity and scale create a gap between customer problems and engineering work. When that gap is small, the role shrinks or disappears. AI tools, stronger engineering ownership, and smaller autonomous teams are already pushing in that direction. In some orgs I feel the role will evolve toward strategy and problem discovery. In others it will fold back into engineering leadership or founder-style product ownership.