Ask HN: Career paths to consider if I am better at supporting than creating?
I have a BS/MS in computer science and somewhere around 9 years of experience, where the first half was spent working as a backend developer and the second half I've been working in product owner roles. I switched from development to product because I simply realized that I wasn't very good at implementation and system design work to be honest. I wanted to work with tech from a more overarching level, and let the experts who were much more skilled than me handle the implementation work.Around 8 months ago I switched companies and am still working as a PO, but this organization I am working in is a terrible fit for me.
- ▪I have a BS/MS in computer science and somewhere around 9 years of experience, where the first half was spent working as a backend developer and the second half I've been working in product owner roles.
- ▪I switched from development to product because I simply realized that I wasn't very good at implementation and system design work to be honest.
- ▪I wanted to work with tech from a more overarching level, and let the experts who were much more skilled than me handle the implementation work.Around 8 months ago I switched companies and am still working as a PO, but this organization I a
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| Original publisher | Ycombinator |
| Canonical URL | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49682920 |
| Publication time | Sun, 13 Sep 2026 11:47:23 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-09-13T12:16:50.270Z |
| Last seen | 2026-09-13T12:16:50.270Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | GH8mD3Ij6aCL · 1 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
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I have a BS/MS in computer science and somewhere around 9 years of experience, where the first half was spent working as a backend developer and the second half I've been working in product owner roles. I switched from development to product because I simply realized that I wasn't very good at implementation and system design work to be honest. I wanted to work with tech from a more overarching level, and let the experts who were much more skilled than me handle the implementation work.Around 8 months ago I switched companies and am still working as a PO, but this organization I am working in is a terrible fit for me.
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Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at Ycombinator.