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Author is (was?) a Growth Product Manager at Dropbox.

https://www.elenaverna.com/p/growth-at-dropbox

This is a completely fake piece where she poses as a programmer, cites inevitability and finally comes to the conclusion that the skills she possesses will be the more valuable ones in the future.

This is really a "generation-sell" caricature.



She... isn't posing as a programmer?

""" Growth, marketing, product management, sales - these used to feel like crafts. You built intuition over years. You learned what great looked like. You got good at pattern recognition. You earned judgment and respect by grinding through it all.

AI is flattening a lot of that.

It’s a weird experience to spend ten years becoming excellent at something only to watch a 22-year-old produce a suspiciously solid version of it in 14 minutes. """

To me this piece was especially interesting because she's _not_ a programmer. It's the perspective of a different knowledge worker in the same industry as a lot of the commenters here.


It's shitty when people have bots post any link they can find, it defeats the point of what's supposed to be curated. We end up with this low quality crap. At least, I assume high submission accounts are bots.




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