What Happens When a Platform Grows but the Team Doesn’t?
As a technology platform grows, implicit responsibilities accumulate around the people with the most context unless its ownership model grows too.
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As a technology platform grows, implicit responsibilities accumulate around the people with the most context unless its ownership model grows too.
AI-assisted development is changing what it means to own code, shifting the work from typing implementations to understanding when generated code is worth trusting.
Specification-driven development can make AI-assisted work more predictable, but the process has a cost. The question is when that cost is worth paying.
As AI lowers the barrier to working across the stack, I'm starting to question whether separate front-end and back-end career ladders still make sense.