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?
@adrianbb89 Die öffentliche Meinung ihm gegenüber ist sowieso komplett crazy
Eigentlich ist er in Pressekonferenzen so sympathisch und behandelt alle seine Spieler korrekt. Nur wird 2x pro Jahr irgendwas geclipt und er daraufhin durch den Dreck gezogen
@daniel_dhawan@speedrun@fdotinc Congratulations!
May I ask why you chose Tblisi?
My gf is georgian and I'm intrigued by the idea of living there for a couple of years
@rayray5302@JoRo_NFL this all sounds wonderful but sadly injuries do happen and part of our horrible cap situation is that we have very poor depth. I obviously hope that we stay as healthy as can be but realistically we are gonna be just as injured as the other teams.
My rent: $2,400
This is not the same as a $2,400 mortgage.
So the next time someone tells me I'm throwing away money and should buy a house and build equity, I'll be sure to remind them of all the hidden costs of being a homeowner: