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From Boris Cherny: Claude Code & the Future of Engineering | Acquired Unplugged · ≈12:15
“every engineer on the team does scoping. Everyone talks to users every day.”
“we're we're kind of starting to see all the roles merge and kind of melt into one builder.”
What’s in it
- How Claude Code's team collapsed traditional roles into one 'builder'
- Why generalists beat specialist handoff chains on modern product teams
- A glimpse of the researcher-to-engineer waterfall being replaced by AI
Clip transcript
I think something that I look for in our team in particular for Claude code is we love generalists. So I I think a thing that we started to see maybe six months ago is there were very few engineers on the team that were just doing engineering in the traditional sense of like you know you have a user researcher they talked to the user and then they handed that down in a document to a designer who then made a mock and then that went to a product manager you know scoped it and then it goes to an engineer for implementation. I I worked at Microsoft I'm extremely familiar with this process. [laughter] This is what it used to be. But it, you know, we we just realized this is not what the team is doing anymore. And our team was always kind of more prototypy than this. But maybe six months ago, the thing we found is every engineer on the team does scoping. Everyone talks to users every day. People are doing design engineers. Everyone on the team is comfortable like pulling data and doing data science work, building dashboards and things like that. So I think like we're we're kind of starting to see all the roles merge and kind of melt into one builder. I think like Satia calls it a builder. So, it's something like that. It's almost like a product engineer, but you don't even really necessarily have to be an engineer. That's right. And you know, like we
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