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If so, they'll call us "technical analysts" or similar, as I've yet to work at a company where the PMs and UX people full understand the logic of what they are trying to make. "Programmers" seem to fill this gap mostly.

Not only do they fill this knowledge gap, but the gap is a massive chasm. Implementation details are not just figuring out how to get something to work in a bubble without regard for the rest of a system, but finding good compromises based on very imprecise and highly product-specific requirements. AI can just get something equivalent to a poem to barely compile when real world systems are a series of heavy tomes that contain nothing at all what the PMs think they do.

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