AI won't replace PMs, but slow ones get routed around

Product Map, the company behind an AI copilot for product managers, argues the job is being repriced rather than eliminated, citing Marty Cagan's view that the role becomes "more essential but also more difficult" as AI absorbs drafting, research synthesis, and reporting. The piece leans on its own case study, describing PMs who run fleets of specialized agents through Git repositories, and cites Anthropic's finding that coding agents roughly tripled engineering output while product management throughput stayed flat. Its sharper warning is structural: as engineering speeds up, teams route around PMs who work at pre-AI pace, so the role can erode without a formal replacement ever happening.