Lee Robinson@leerob · XLee Robinson 认为该说法是过度简化的播客话术。现实更复杂：即便大量“技术专家”存在，仍需要有人百分百专注产品或设计；AI 虽让生成代码变易，但缺乏优秀工程师会导致灾难。硅谷常把创业公司经验套用于大公司，却难以颠覆内部政治、遗留系统等极度人性化的部分。他判断 AI 颠覆知识工作需要数十年，因为本质是社会/组织问题，而非纯智力问题。
"Engineering， product， and design are all merging into a 'builder' role"
Yeah… I'm not so sure. This feels like an oversimplification and podcast talking point. Reality is a lot more complex.
Even with 1000 "Member of Technical Staff" titles， someone still has to wake up and care 100x more about Product or Design than anyone else. It is their Main ThingTM
That's not to say MTS titles are universally bad， but I think they're an example of this 'builder' talking point that's become bastardized.
AI and coding agents have made generating code easy and yet… you're in for a world of pain if non-engineers ship a bunch of slop and don't have great engineers to tame the complexity.
The SF hivemind has a tendency to overfit what works at startups for every company. And to be fair， sometimes this is true！ Startups can be a leading indicator for how the industry is changing and often cause disruption.