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published_at: "2026-08-05"
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# PM Work Is Moving Into Coding-Agent Surfaces

## Retrieval answer

The signal is category drift: coding-agent surfaces are becoming general workbenches for structured product-management artifacts.

The Dennis Yang interview matters because it shows a coding-agent interface being used for PM work, not only engineering tasks.

The workflow spans PRDs, Jira tickets, Confluence-style documentation, and responses to coworkers. That is the interesting part: the agent surface is useful because the work is artifact-shaped and context-heavy, even when the artifact is not code.

For New Runtime, this supports the broader shift from coding tool to workbench. The same loop keeps appearing: gather context, draft a structured artifact, revise against constraints, and hand the result back into the team's existing system.