David Herrera
45 posts




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?









Hay bastante polémica con este artículo donde se dice que en Spotify ya no se programa. Al margen de que son declaraciones del CEO presentando los datos financieros y que "hay que venderse bien", yo lo veo así: Que no "escriban líneas de código" no significa que los desarrolladores ya no trabajen. Su labor ha evolucionado radicalmente. Han pasado de teclear toda la sintaxis a invertir su tiempo en el diseño de sistemas, la arquitectura de alto nivel y, sobre todo, la revisión. La IA hace el trabajo manual, pero el humano es quien debe guiarla, darle instrucciones lógicas precisas y auditar con mil ojos lo que produce la IA. Aún así, habla de "sus mejores desarrolladores", entiendo que los más expertos y que mejor entienden todo el sistema e implicaciones.




