Boris Cherny, who leads Claude Code at Anthropic, says he hasn’t personally written a line of code in more than six months. More interestingly, he’s argued that labels like engineer, product manager and designer are becoming less useful ways of describing how value is actually created.

Instead, he sees five archetypes emerging across every function - Prototyper, Builder, Sweeper, Grower and Maintainer.

Although it’s framed through the lens of product development, it feels like it’s capturing a much larger shift in how work is being organised.

For decades we’ve organised work around roles. Increasingly, AI is organising work around capabilities. The question is shifting from What is your job? to What contribution do you make?

If that’s right, titles become a historical artefact. They describe where you sit in an organisation chart, not where you create leverage.

It’s also worth noting who’s making this argument. Cherny isn’t commenting from the sidelines. He’s building one of the systems that’s reshaping knowledge work, and variations of this thinking are already appearing inside companies like Klarna, Shopify and Meta.

The strategic implication is subtle but significant. Many professionals are still managing their careers around titles, while organisations are increasingly allocating work based on capabilities, adaptability and outcomes.

That gap won’t stay invisible forever.

A useful question for all of us might be this:

If your title disappeared tomorrow, what archetype would describe the value you actually create?

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