Is AI Taking Your Job or Changing It?

AI is changing product work fast. It can write code, accelerate research, support design decisions and remove hours of repetitive work. But is it taking your job, or changing it?
In this debate, Dana Lawson and Christina Goldschmidt take opposing sides on one of the most urgent questions facing modern teams. One side argues that AI is reducing the need for specialists by collapsing roles, raising expectations and putting more pressure on fewer individuals. The other argues that AI is changing the job, not replacing it, freeing skilled practitioners to focus on judgement, systems thinking, strategy, creativity, and the decisions that matter most.
Moderated by Ryan Leffel, this session explores what happens as AI reshapes not just coding, but also design, research, delivery, and product decision-making. What does that mean for the future of cross-functional teams? Will experienced product managers, designers, and engineers become more valuable, or will the pressure on individuals become unsustainable? And if AI takes on more of the work across the product lifecycle, who stays accountable for what gets built, why it gets built, and whether it should exist at all?