As engineering, product, design, DS, etc. melt into a new kind of role, I was reflecting on what roles might look like in the future. For example, when I look at the Claude Code team I see what I think is five archetypes:
1. Prototyper: comes up with brand new ideas; churns out many ideas, most of which don't ship
2. Builder: quickly turns a prototype/idea into production-grade product/infra
3. Sweeper: cleans up the UI, simplifies the code and system, unships, optimizes performance
4. Grower: takes a product that has been built and iterates on it to improve Product-Market Fit
5. Maintainer: owns a mature system to make it secure, reliable, fast, and efficient as it scales
Many people span across 2 roles, and sometimes 3 roles. I also notice that these roles are not really tied to job function -- eg. across Anthropic, some designers match category 1, some 2, some 3; same for engineers, PM, DS.
A healthy team needs a mix of these, depending on the product:
- A product that is new and pre-PMF needs people that are strong at 1+2+3
- A product that is growing and has found PMF needs 2+3+4 and some 5
- A product that has strong PMF needs 3+4+5 and some 2
Maybe product roles of the future will look more like this, and less like the domain-specific roles of today?
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Five values guiding our cloud exit:
1. We value independence above all else
2. We serve the internet
3. We spend our money wisely
4. We lead the way
5. We seek adventure
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If web3 has only 2.5M active wallets, there are only 3 ways for a web3 project to be highly valued:
1/ onboards millions of new users
2/ used by a majority of the 2.5M wallets
3/ used by the most valuable segment of the 2.5M wallets
Many don't realize which bucket they're in.
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When I was a PhD student, a professor told me:
"There are only three papers worth writing on a given topic: the first paper, the best paper, and the last paper."
It's obv a bit tongue-in-cheek, but I've often used the underlying heuristic to aid in choosing research directions.