Marcus runs the writing app Spiral and spent a year learning Cursor, an AI coding assistant. Now he understands code, ships features faster than his teammates, and turns user conversations into product insights alone. AI doesn't replace PMs, it makes good ones unstoppable.
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I am super, super bullish on PMs. We have this guy internally, his name is Marcus, and he runs Spiral, which is our writing app. Marcus is a PM by training. He previously ran Axios's writing product. He took a year off that job and just got super AI pilled and just learned how to use Cursor basically really well. I would call him lightly technical, like knows what a database migration is. If he has to look at the code, I think he can understand it, but we never could have hired him to do this job even a year ago. But the coding models have gotten good enough that he can pair the kind of technical knowledge that he does have with his really spiky product sense and sense for writing and sense for users. It's so dangerous. He ships faster than almost anyone on the team. And he has such an eye for every single user, every single conversation. Like, what does it mean and how do we collect it into a story about where we want to go next and what are the issues we need to fix? All that kind of stuff. I think that he feels liberated because he doesn't have to organize a whole team of people to do that. He can just do it. It's super impressive and it makes me very, very bullish on any PM who gets really AI-pilled.
