When I wrote about shifting the engineering process left — spec sessions, autonomous agents, humans...
When I wrote about shifting the engineering process left — spec sessions, autonomous agents, humans reviewing output rather than writing code — a question kept coming up.
Where does the Product Owner fit in all of this?
It’s the right question.
And I think the answer is more interesting than “the PO disappears.”
Let’s start with acceptance criteria.
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