Shift from Full-Stack to Product Engineers

The Shift to Product Engineers

I will be hated for this, but samebody has to say it:

< 2025: full-stack engineer
> 2025: product engineer

What changed?

We've been hiring devs who can build anything.
Now I need devs who question everything.

Devs who are as obsessed with user activation metrics as they are with code quality.

It's a slow, deliberate shift from an output-driven factory to an outcome-driven team.
And honestly, its hard.

This article was originally published on https://craftengineer.com/. It was written by a human and polished using grammar tools for clarity.
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