Coding Agents 如何重塑工程、产品和设计

EPD (Engineering, Product, and Design) at software company is about creating good software. Separate roles exist, but the end goal is functional software that solves a business problem that users can use. At the end of the day, this is just code. It is important to recognize that the output of what EPD as a function builds is just code because… coding agents have suddenly made code very easy to write. So how does this change the role of EPD?

软件公司的 EPD（Engineering、Product 和 Design）是关于创建良好软件的。存在单独的角色，但最终目标是用户可以使用的解决业务问题的功能软件。归根结底，这只是代码。重要的是认识到 EPD 作为一个职能构建的输出只是代码，因为……coding agents 突然让编写代码变得非常容易。那么这如何改变 EPD 的角色？

The changing process:

变化过程：

PRDs are dead
PRDs 已死
The bottleneck shifts from implementation to review
瓶颈从 implementation 转移到 review
Long live PRDs
PRDs 万岁

Impact on roles:

对角色的影响：

Generalists are more valuable than ever
通才比以往任何时候都更有价值
Coding agents are a requirement
Coding agents 是必需的
Good PMs are great, bad PMs are terrible
优秀的 PMs 很棒，糟糕的 PMs 很糟糕
Everyone needs product sense
每个人都需要 product sense
The bar for specialization is higher
专业化的门槛更高
You're either a builder or a reviewer
你是要么成为 builder，要么成为 reviewer
Everyone thinks their role is most advantaged by coding agents - and they are right
每个人都认为他们的角色最受益于 coding agents - 他们是对的

PRDs are dead

PRDs 已死

PRDs (Product Requirement Documents) were the focal point of building software in the pre-Claude era. The EPD process was largely:

在 pre-Claude 时代，PRDs (Product Requirement Documents) 是构建软件的焦点。EPD 流程基本上是：

Someone (usually product) has an idea
某人（通常是 product）有一个想法
Product writes a PRD
Product 编写 PRD
Design takes PRD and creates a mock
Design 根据 PRD 创建 mock
Engineering turns mock into code This wasn’t a hard and fast rule (at startups these steps blended together, the best builders were able to do multiple of these together) but it was the textbook way to build things.
Engineering 将 mock 转为代码这并不是铁律（在初创公司，这些步骤融合在一起，最好的构建者能够同时做多个这些步骤）但这是教科书式的构建方式。

This was required because building the software (and building the mock) required a significant amount of time and effort. So discip...