# Brendan Cody-Kenny: How will AI redraw the boundaries between specialist roles?

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### 2026-10-16 question #ai #organisations #software-engineering
How will AI redraw the boundaries between specialist roles?
- 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?

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