Netflix's CPTO on whether teams need specialists

The days of very narrow, deep specialization feel more limited to me. I still believe we need specialized practitioners, but as a general rule, compared to 5 or 10 years ago, I would believe we have fewer specialists and more people who are generalists or adaptable in multiple directions. And that could be adaptable across functional expertise. It could be adaptable across flavors of engineering. There's something about sticking to a narrow specialty that maybe triggers for me a concern about what about the mindset of growing in different directions and exploring. It's important that people who are specialists still have that sense of, I want to try a new way of solving these problems versus the way we have in the past. People who are able to innovate and imagine like, what's the future version of this? We want more talent like that.