Do software product teams tend to have an AI person by default these days when they can afford to, the way they used to have a mobile-app person by default 10y ago?
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You can track evolution in tech by looking at default roles in simpler products. Product manager, frontend dev, backend dev, UI designer have been staples for decades. At various points, mobile dev, devops, analytics, product marketing manager became standards.
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UX researcher (as opposed to UI designer) have always had a shaky foothold in the default set much to their chagrin 😆
I think AI and blockchain roles will become defaults within the next few years.
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That person often reports to a central ML/datasci team and spends the bulk of their time doing the heavy, head-down bulk feature eng/model training
They sit in on product work almost as a consultant, to align product plans w/ what's possible
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There is a twist, in that the data science tech stack and workflow is very different from typical backend dev, so there’s friction in just parachuting one in a team. However, there’s useful tooling popping up that sets up boundaries that have more effective interaction
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