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@cornell @zfellows, past @netflix

[beau @bhazepol]

@icon "I want to make our $12M https://t.co/LNNSasJiEl domain worth it."

[Boris Cherny @bcherny]

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?

[beau @bhazepol]

@ankurnagpal I sent a dm

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@emmainSTEM Folded what

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@ConnorShowler Lemme try

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@aidenybai Codex never has this issue

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@giovabattelli I’m snitching lil bro

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@nealchopra Gotta be paid actors

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@ConnorShowler Yooo

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@kevinlu625 Oops yeah

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@kodjima33 @MIT Shouldn't you preprocess screenshots in the background instead of running OCR on-demand?

[beau @bhazepol]

@_sonith So underrated man

[Armada @cornellarmada]

ARMADA BONFIRE. “No plan survives first contact with the enemy” —Helmuth von Moltke the Elder, Militärische Werke (1871)

[beau @bhazepol]

@sakinanerd I think pretty normal

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@sethsetse @a0_dev Does it come w/ a pink tesla

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@yacineMTB Use uv bro

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@sakinanerd Oh no

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@spicy_liu Gulp

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