Only builders

The end of engineering, product and design

For a long period, secrets of engineering were restricted to those crazy enough to actually go and learn how to program. You could study computer science at university, but the majority of programming would still remain a mystery until you decided to spelunk into the depths of poorly written documentation by yourself.

But alas, that time has come to an end. If you are able to write any words, you are now able to conjure the spirits of programming right on your very computer.

Designers, they knew about the secrets of margins, padding, and typography. Unless you were born with magical eyes that are able to perceive whether something is good and whether something isn’t good design, you would forever be lost in what can only be called shitty UX.

But alas, the time has come to an end. If you are able to write some words, and specifically the words “make it pretty”. Then you’re able to make something that passes as a reasonably good design.

At the end, there are the product managers, both the highest paid and least well-defined occupation in the Triforce of application builders. What do they do? Nobody knows, but also their time has come to an end. For now, you can simply speak the magical words: “Build a bunch of features that make sense”.

The time of specialists is coming to an end, and we are entering the age of builders. We are all builders, some of us with better taste than others. Some of us do certain things more than others, like thinking about how something is built rather than how something looks. But at the end, there are only builders. No more engineers, no more designers, no more product managers. Just builders.