{"id":"2071379474277613732","url":"https://x.com/bcherny/status/2071379474277613732","text":"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:\n\n1. Prototyper: comes up with brand new ideas; churns out many ideas, most of which don't ship\n2. Builder: quickly turns a prototype/idea into production-grade product/infra\n3. Sweeper: cleans up the UI, simplifies the code and system, unships, optimizes performance\n4. Grower: takes a product that has been built and iterates on it to improve Product-Market Fit\n5. Maintainer: owns a mature system to make it secure, reliable, fast, and efficient as it scales\n\nMany 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.\n\nA healthy team needs a mix of these, depending on the product:\n\n- A product that is new and pre-PMF needs people that are strong at 1+2+3\n- A product that is growing and has found PMF needs 2+3+4 and some 5\n- A product that has strong PMF needs 3+4+5 and some 2\n\nMaybe product roles of the future will look more like this, and less like the domain-specific roles of today?","author":{"name":"Boris Cherny","username":"bcherny","avatarUrl":"https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/1902044548936953856/J2jeik0t_200x200.jpg"},"createdAt":"Sun Jun 28 23:45:25 +0000 2026","engagement":{"replies":872,"retweets":2307,"likes":19429,"views":3006608},"adhxContext":{"savedByCount":1,"publicTags":[],"previewUrl":"https://adhx.com/bcherny/status/2071379474277613732"}}