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?
How is AI changing work inside Anthropic? And what might this tell us about the effects on the wider labor force to come?
We surveyed 132 of our engineers, conducted 53 in-depth interviews, and analyzed 200K internal Claude Code sessions to find out.
https://t.co/YLLjs9W9e5
Excited to share a System Instructions for Gemini 3 Pro that improved performance on several agentic benchmarks by around 5%. 🚀
We collaborated with the @GoogleDeepMind post-training research team to include some best practices in our docs. 🤝
Google just dropped a new 50-page doc on building agents that actually work in the real world. it's a fast introduction to the theory of what you must know about agents.
It covers:
→ core agent architecture
→ LLM (the brain behind agents)
→ tools (the hands of the agents)
→ multi-agent orchestration
→ how to deploy agents
→ evaluation and metrics
→ self-evolving learning agents
→ how agents evolve and learn
→ covering AlphaEvolve example
you can download and read it from Kaggle: https://t.co/nLKRlX0RZs