System Builders vs. Full-Stack Builders vs. Specialists

A talent taxonomy Tomer Cohen uses when redesigning LinkedIn's product organization around AI, splitting people into three buckets rather than forcing one universal role change:

System builders — build the underlying platforms, agents, and infrastructure other builders rely on (see Narrow, Single-Purpose Internal Agent Suite (LinkedIn), Orchestrator Layer for Narrow Agents).
Full-stack builders — generalists who take an idea from research through launch themselves, the target state of LinkedIn's Full-Stack Builder Model.
Specialists — people who remain deep in one craft; Cohen is explicit that not everyone needs to become full-stack: "Some people do not want to be full stack builders. And that's completely okay."

The taxonomy is a hedge against a one-size-fits-all rollout: instead of mandating full-stack conversion org-wide, it names three legitimate destinations so specialists aren't treated as failing to transform.

Из тем: AI and the Changing Shape of Product Work