From Developer to Product Engineer

A short orientation — what this path covers, who it's for, and where to begin.

The market stopped paying a premium for the old job. This chapter names the new contract, maps eight durable skills to it, and ends with the honest self-score that anchors your 90-day plan.

A practitioner montage of what agents absorbed, what they didn't, and how to audit your own week to find out where your work actually lives now.

Ninety percent of your old skills just went to zero, and the leverage on the remaining ten percent multiplied — depth becomes the license to delegate.

The PM craft that lands on your desk when nothing arrives pre-chewed: appetite, problem statements, the no-list, and the one-pager that gets a decision made.

When the agent returns ten working versions before lunch, selecting the right one is the job — and the trained eye that does it is learnable, on a schedule.

Reviewing work you didn't write, at volume — the traps green tests hide, when to throw away instead of steer, and the practice that keeps the catching skill alive.

Turn six chapters of work into one closing page: a builder-shaped job description, one booked customer conversation, and a 90-day plan around your weakest two durable skills with a manager script.