Wrote this with Diana on composite roles - positions that deliberately fuse capabilities from traditionally separate disciplines. We used the forward deployed engineer as an example (postings up 800% in 2025), but most orgs aren't designing these roles, they're just letting them happen and wondering why people burn out. It's the unpaid open source maintainer writ large https://dianawolfephd.com/blog/are-you-designing-roles-for-the-ai-era #AI #FutureOfWork #JobDesign #CompositeRoles
Are you designing roles for the AI era, or just hoping they emerge?: Diana Wolfe

For decades, organizations designed work around specialization. AI is exposing the gap between how roles are scoped and how work actually happens. The composite role is the organizational response.

Diana Wolfe, PhD