AI isn't replacing product managers. It's replacing status meetings.

The work a PM does in a 45-minute standup: collecting blockers, clarifying priorities, tracking what was decided last week. Most of that is now automatable.

What's not automatable is judgment. Reading the room. Knowing which engineer is close to burning out. Knowing which stakeholder will kill the feature if they see it for the first time in the review.

The PMs who lose leverage in the next 5 years aren't the ones who can't use AI. They're the ones whose entire value is coordination and documentation.

The ones who survive are the ones whose value is judgment and context. They know things the meeting transcript doesn't.

This isn't a new idea. But most product orgs are still structured as if coordination is the hard part.

The org chart hasn't caught up to what AI already changed.