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?
@nicoharone Pague el plan Zen de Opencode. De momento bastante flojo, en una session (plan + build) sin demasiada exigencia me comió 5/20 U$ en tokens. Aun tengo que hacer la prueba con la api key directamente de moonshot. Pero atm pagando directamente en opencode me viene resultando flojito
Uno de los objetivos que nos propusimos este 2026 es estar más activos acá y contar lo que estamos armando con @Nubi_studio junto a @is_doro. Próximamente se vienen cositas ✨