Couldn't disagree with this article more. I think the future of software engineering is more T-shaped.

Look at the 'Product Engineer' roles we are seeing spreading in forward-thinking startups and scaleups.

That's the future of SWE I think. SWEs take on more PM and design responsibilities as part of the existing role.

I agree. In many cases it's probably easier for a developer to become more of a product person, than for a product person to become a dev. Even with LLM's you still need to have some technical skills & be able to read code to handle technical tasks effectively.

Of course things might look different when the product is something that requires really deep domain knowledge.