Is AI disrupting or improving your PM experience?

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Aaron Porter

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IT Director| Blade HQ Payson, UT, United States

There are signals that AI is contributing to the hollowing out of lower- and mid-level project management roles (as there are fewer junior PMs there are, the pool of people available to progress into mid-level roles will be smaller), which means that as senior-level PMs either move on to new roles or age out, there will be fewer people to take their place, which can't be filled by AI. What is your experience? Are AI tools improving your experience and what you can accomplish as a project manager, or disrupting it?

Posted: Jan 10, 2026 6:41 PM

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Md. Golam Rob Talukdar

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Project Manager| AWR Development (BD) Ltd. Cox's Bazer , Bangladesh

Interesting point, Aaron.
In my experience, AI is improving the PM role more than disrupting it. It takes care of routine work and gives better visibility, which frees PMs to focus on leadership, problem-solving, and stakeholder engagement—the parts that really can’t be automated.

Golam

Posted: Jan 11, 2026 9:27 AM

Lissette Indhira Pimentel Sosa

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Program Manager| HARPER SRL Santo Domingo / Distrito Nacional, Dominican Republic

I see both sides, but overall AI has improved my PM experience so far. It removes a lot of administrative friction and speeds up analysis, which helps me focus more on judgment, coordination, and stakeholder conversations.
That said, I agree there’s a real risk at the junior level. When early PM roles become too tool-driven, people lose chances to build decision muscle and situational awareness. AI helps experienced PMs amplify their impact, but it can’t replace the learning curve that comes from doing the work and making real calls.

Posted: Jan 13, 2026 8:29 AM

Luis Branco CEO| Business Insight, Consultores de Gestão, Ldª Carcavelos, Lisboa, Portugal

I see this less as an AI problem and more as a leadership and career-design problem.

AI is removing low-value administrative work that was historically mistaken for “training” junior PMs.
That exposes a weak development model, it doesn’t create it.

The real risk is not AI hollowing out mid-level roles, but organizations failing to deliberately develop judgment, decision-making, and governance capability as PMs progress.
AI can scale cognition, not replace leadership.

Used well, AI improves a PM’s effectiveness.
Used as a substitute for growth, it reveals why some roles were fragile to begin with.

Posted: Jan 20, 2026 1:54 PM

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