A single speaker discusses what engineers need to stay competitive. The focus: system architecture, design, product sense, and communicating with users. Using AI and large language models can improve how products perform.
Doing a bit of everything. Being in general, I think much more important than it used to be. If I'm putting together a product team today, I would re obsess about getting as much of as many skill sets as possible for each person I hire. They should know how architecting a system works, preferably. They should know design, they should know. They should have product taste. They should know how to talk to users. I think everyone should know a bit of all of that, preferably. And then you do often want to have like absolute, absolute superpower in some dimension to be able to understand and do as many things as possible, like have this generalist brain that quickly learns any skill but be super, super good in one dimension. And that's for us, that's mostly cramming as much out of AI, out of the large language models and understanding the entire parameter space of what you can change to make our product perform better.