Ranking 15 PM Skills: What Survives vs. Gets Disrupted by AI | Nan Yu (Linear)

Name: Ranking 15 PM Skills: What Survives vs. Gets Disrupted by AI | Nan Yu (Linear)
Uploaded: 2025-08-31
Duration: 3524 s
Channel: Peter Yang
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Channel: Peter Yang

Uploaded: 2025-08-31

Duration: PT3524S

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[0:00] So like everything you write, the main

[0:01] audience is not really people anymore

[0:04] because even the people that are going

[0:06] to read your stuff, they're reading it

[0:07] using an AI. You can literally just go

[0:09] like command a select all and then

[0:12] delegate it to codegen. You can just

[0:14] spawn off a hundred of these

[0:15] simultaneously if that's what you want

[0:17] to do. You know, a lot of sort of what

[0:19] we call strategic thinking and

[0:21] prioritization and things like that.

[0:22] It's like we have to like draw a bunch

[0:24] of 2 by twos and and and really figure

[0:25] out how to logic our way through it.

[0:27] Like that is something that they are

[0:28] excellent at. Say what you want about

[0:30] AI. They're not really quite, you know,

[0:31] good at the emotional stuff like yet.

[0:34] >> You and I made a slide before the

[0:36] interview. The point is to uh list all

[0:38] the skills that are still relevant,

[0:40] skills that are being disrupted and

[0:41] maybe already disrupted and new skills

[0:43] that PM should build. Why don't we just

[0:45] talk about them one by one?

[0:49] Okay, welcome everyone. My guest today

[0:50] is Dan, head of product at Linear. You

[0:53] know, Linear only has two PMs, but it's

[0:55] scaled to over 15,000 companies,

[0:57] including OpenAI, Ramp, and Mercury, and

[1:00] other great companies. And today, I'm

[1:02] going to ask Non to do a fun exercise

[1:03] with me to to rank what PM skills will

[1:06] still matter in the AI era. And and I

[1:09] will also demo his favorite AI workflows

[1:12] and linear's new AI agents. So, welcome.

[1:16] >> Yeah, great to be here.

[1:17] >> So, let's start with this question. Um,

[1:19] why do you only have two PMs and and uh