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engineers and designers can do the work of a PM, but often they don't want to. It's like, there's a lot of non-fun parts to it. They're like, oh, I wish we could have someone here do these things. And PMs enjoy that work. They're good at it. And so eventually engineers and designers realized, okay, I see, I see why maybe we should hire a PM. I say this often actually to folks who are thinking about going into product management. It's like, that's awesome. Just be really, really sure about what you're signing up for. You're constantly working across a lot of different teams. You're trying to influence a lot of people who don't report into you directly to do a bunch of stuff. And if you love that, that's great. But like, you got to be sure you're, you know, you're signing up for it. I imagine people get into product thinking they're going to have all this control, power, influence. And then they're like, oh my God, this job is so freaking crazy. What if I sign up? It's so hard.