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The Job Positions of the AI Future

26 min

This episode explores how AI is reshaping job roles, moving from traditional job descriptions to archetypes like prototyper, builder, sweeper, grower, and maintainer. The host discusses these work-facing roles from a tweet by Cloud Code Creator Boris Cherney and adds external-facing roles like editor, scout, evangelist, orchestrator, conductor, and risk steward. The key shift is from doing a job to managing agents, which changes how work is organized across all functions, not just product development.

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✨ Key Takeaways

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Boris Cherney's tweet outlines five new AI-driven role archetypes: prototyper, builder, sweeper, grower, and maintainer, which are tied to product lifecycle stages.
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The host adds six externally-facing roles missing from Cherney's analysis: editor, scout, evangelist, orchestrator, conductor, and risk steward.
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These archetypes can be applied beyond software engineering to sales, marketing, and even back-office functions like finance and HR.
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The prototyper archetype is becoming more common across all functions as agentic tools enable non-technical workers to build small pieces of custom software.
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The role of risk steward is described as dynamic and forward-looking, helping organizations maintain speed while managing new risks from faster iteration.

💬 Notable Quotes

"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."

— Boris Cherney
"When making gets cheap enough, every function starts to grow a maker."

— Host
"The risk steward then becomes the archetypal position whose whole focus is on greasing the governance gears of the system so that it doesn't get stopped and thrown off the tracks by a risk that got out of control."

— Host