AI Is Blurring Engineering, Product and Design Roles

Melvin Vivas · X post · 2026-06-30 · Open on X

Topics: Industry Trends & Job Market, Resume, Job Search & Interviews · Level: beginner

Summary

The creator agrees with a quoted post saying engineering, product, design and data science are merging into new kinds of roles. The quoted author sees five archetypes on the Claude Code team, starting with the 'Prototyper'. The creator thinks the best people will do more than one role.

Key points

• AI lets engineers, designers, PMs and growth people move into each other's work.
• The best people will probably cover more than one role.
• The quoted post describes five role archetypes seen on the Claude Code team.
• Archetype 1, 'Prototyper': comes up with brand-new ideas and builds them quickly.
• Career takeaway: build skills beyond your core function.

Resources mentioned

• Claude Code · tool · code.claude.com · paid · recommended by both Bashiri Smith & Melvin Vivas
  Build agents and pipelines from the terminal; the guide's main agentic coding tool.
  Also in: Create Claude Code Plugins with /plugin-authoring (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Claude Code mods: customize behavior and UI with plugins (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), AI Engineer Roadmap Overview: From ML Foundations to RAG, Agents & Ops (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes), SkillsBento: Free Plugin Marketplace for Codex and Claude Code (Melvin Vivas on X · notes) and 101 more

Try this

• Build skills in a neighboring function (product, design, growth) as well as engineering.