being non-technical is an identity
I've been working with a product manager recently who has absolutely zero programming background & education. over the last few weeks, he's gained interest in getting his hands dirty and has been jumping into the codebase head first. he's squashed small bugs, and learned how to interact with a database to derive insights for himself.
he's automatically multiple times more valuable than he was before. he's able to take small tasks off the hands of engineers, save hours of meetings by being able to speak in terms of systems, and has demonstrated that he's willing to do what it takes to get shit done.
things that would have taken years of study are now possible nearly instantly because of LLM's. LLM's are levelling the playing field and democratizing knowledge that was before held by just a small percentage of the population - just a smidge of agency and you can solve problems that you wouldn't have dreamed of solving just a year ago.
anyone that claims they can't build because they aren't technical is really just saying they can't because it's not a priority. not because they are actually unable to build the thing. [1]
inspired by this tweet
[1] build can be a wide range of things. writing code, building robots, making a beat, etc.