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?
I've been thinking more and more about this.
It's supposed to be "intelligence", but it's me who have to learn how to prompt, minimize token use, build/implement MCP servers/clients, techniques to minimize hallucinations that every research say that will never go away, write detailed instructions and so on.
So who is really the intelligent part?
Janja sobre a fala do Chanceler Alemão: “Ele não deve ter vivenciado. Ele não deve ter tomado um tacacá, ter visto um carimbo, ter ido para uma aparelhagem”.
Tainá Falcão: “E a senhora foi?”
Janja: “Ainda não”
Em 24 segundos, o Judiciário da Paraíba aprovou o pagamento de R$ 234 milhões de penduricalhos retroativos a magistrados
O valor supera em 50% o orçamento do governo para Saneamento em 2025. É tb 3x maior que a verba destinada a Educação Infantil
E esse é apenas UM penduricalho
A verdade é que, quanto mais intelectualizado você fica, mais solitário vai se tornando na mesma medida.
Desde os 13 anos, a cada ano de vida, fui me tornando cada vez mais um fantasma social.
Posso estar nos lugares, mas não sinto a mínima vontade de fazer parte.