This one’s on my desk, not the shelf yet, because I’m still in the middle of it. It’s about a change I can feel happening in real time. The line between the person who decides what to build and the person who builds it is getting blurry.

The argument is that agentic coding tools turn a product manager from someone who writes requirements into someone who can prototype, poke at an idea and ship a rough version. I don’t read that as a threat to the craft of product. It’s a multiplier. The fastest way to find out whether an idea is any good is now to build a version of it in an afternoon.

It’s here because it captures why I keep learning. The tools change, the job of understanding them doesn’t. I spent years translating between business and engineering, and books like this are how I make sure I’m translating the current version of engineering and not the one from five years ago.