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Product managers cannot get engineers to provide estimates or feasibility input

A PM struggles to produce roadmaps, feasibility assessments, and integration scoping because engineers refuse or are unable to give estimates, pushing organizations to tell PMs to just use AI to figure it out themselves.

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