I assume the name of this startup is meant to be pronounced like "revel" rather than "revile."

There is no shortage of articles on the HN front page, stating that being "just a code monkey" is likely going to have much less employment options soon-ish.

A likely correct but also at this point rather stale observation.

True title: Product Development is Dead

Agree on the changing work interface layer going higher to product capabilities, but not on “the code base is no longer important”. It’s easy to dismiss given how easy it is to ask an agent to generate a bunch of code. But the code base encodes the intersection of the orgs learnings and its arc of product growth as well. Good code bases encode the learnings as checks and abstractions that form the foundation for future growth. It would be a mistake to give up this formal language. Personally, I would bet on better abstractions in code bases, and being able to embed your product description in code, for high leverage and verifiability.

This post seems overly concerned about what a product does. However, it doesn't really talk about figuring out what a product doesn't do. This is a huge blind spot.