{"url": "https://sub.xiliary.com/p/brendancodykenny/posts/73/how-will-ai-redraw-the-boundaries-between-specialist-roles", "author": {"handle": "brendancodykenny", "name": "Brendan Cody-Kenny", "headline": "Technical Due Diligence for Software M&A", "url": "https://sub.xiliary.com/p/brendancodykenny", "photo": "https://sub.xiliary.com/p/brendancodykenny/photo?v=1790520774"}, "post": {"id": 73, "url": "https://sub.xiliary.com/p/brendancodykenny/posts/73/how-will-ai-redraw-the-boundaries-between-specialist-roles", "kind": "question", "summary": "How will AI redraw the boundaries between specialist roles?", "verbatim": null, "details": ["AI automates tasks, but organisations are structured around roles: product, architecture, engineering, QA and the handoffs between them.", "If half of two specialists' tasks are automated, the remaining halves might form a new specialism rather than eliminate specialisation.", "As people acquire adjacent capabilities, they can take responsibility for larger units of work, including more of the customer-to-feedback loop. Context switching and depth still limit this.", "What looks like generalisation within the old division of labour may actually be specialisation around a larger unit of work.", "What determines the boundaries of these new specialisms?"], "links": [], "tags": ["ai", "organisations", "software-engineering"], "happened_on": null, "created": "2026-10-16T08:53:56.667850Z", "edited": "2026-10-16T09:09:56.167834Z", "source": null}}