# Noah Zweben explains how he thinks about PM work for devtools in the AI age

> Original title: "Be a cannon for our engineers"

- Source: Noah Zweben
- Published: 2026-11-10T00:57:30.000Z
- Bad Influence: https://badinfluence.news/items/eonyydwzezn0tz37c1d3nuife
- Original: https://x.com/noahzweben/status/2119957587139715306

## Summary

Anthropic's Noah Zweben says Boris Cherny told him, when he joined Claude Code as PM #2 in November 2025, to be a cannon for engineers. Zweben's thread describes how he approaches product management for developer tools in the age of AI.

## Post

"Be a cannon for our engineers"  

How I think about PM-ing devtools in the age of AI 🧵

That's what @bcherny  told me when I joined Claude Code as PM #2 in Nov 2025 and asked what a PM was even for on a team of such product-minded devs.

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