Roles aren't converging—they're expanding | Tamar Yehoshua (Atlassian CPO)
Tamar Yehoshua, CPO at Atlassian, talks with Lenny Rachitsky about how AI is expanding what PMs do rather than replacing them, with examples of 3-6x faster delivery.
The gist
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PMs are now writing code, running evaluations, and debugging prompts, but which skills matter depends on the project phase.
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Automating feedback triage and test creation shrunk one task from half a day to 10 minutes using tools that understand your company's context.
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Recording a Loom of UI changes lets AI generate work items and accessible code, closing the gap between prototype and implementation.
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Atlassian upskilled over 1,000 employees through an AI Fluency Index and quarterly AI Builder Weeks, producing 120 plus reusable workflows.
"Mike, our CEO, DM'd me and one of the product leads and says, 'When is some feature launching?' Five minutes later, he sent a screenshot of Rovo, which is Atlassian's AI product, and said, 'This is what Rovo said. Is it right?' We're like, 'Yeah.' And he said, 'Sorry, I wasted..."
▶ Play at 4:07"We used Jira Service Management to take and review all of the videos from the customer insights. We got over 900 pieces of feedback. We used a Rovo agent to then triage and categorize them. And we were very happily surprised with the quality that we got of the triage."
▶ Play at 15:28"They started with Loom. In a Loom video, you could record the UI that you wanted to change, or you could record the Figma designs with a talk track, or you could just brainstorm — that goes into a recording. And then Loom has the ability from the recording to automatically cre..."
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"Mike, our CEO, DM'd me and one of the product leads and says, 'When is some feature launching?' Five minutes later, he sent a screenshot of Rovo, which is Atlassian's AI product..."
"They started with Loom. In a Loom video, you could record the UI that you wanted to change, or you could record the Figma designs with a talk track, or you could just brainstorm..."
"We used Jira Service Management to take and review all of the videos from the customer insights. We got over 900 pieces of feedback. We used a Rovo agent to then triage and cate..."
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