Is everyone a product engineer now?

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Satya Nadella says LinkedIn took four roles, combined them and said they're all "full stack builders." Claude Code's creator, Boris Cherny, thinks we'll start to see the title software engineer go away. So is everyone a product engineer now? And if product engineers build the product, who builds what they stand on? We check it against our own count of every Hacker News "Who is hiring?" post since 2019, plus Indeed, SignalFire and CompTIA. We go back to 1974, when the US Bureau of Labor Statistics saw programmers and systems analysts starting to merge into one job, and then explain it the way RPGs would, as two classes with many builds. It ends on who's still hiring juniors, and what to learn now. Chapters: 0:00 Intro 0:38 Is every role becoming one? 2:36 What does the hiring data say? 3:31 Is the product engineer new? 5:20 Who builds for the builders? 8:10 What happens to juniors? 10:04 How do you get ready?