Tommaso Nervegna writes about LinkedIn killing its Associate Product Manager program and replacing it with a new role called the “Full Stack Builder.” The structural bet is interesting, but the finding from their rollout is what matters:

The expectation was that AI would be a great equalizer: juniors would benefit most because AI would close their skill gaps, while seniors would resist the change. The reality was the opposite. Top performers adopted AI fastest and derived the most value from it. Why? Because they had the judgment and experience to know what to ask for, how to evaluate the output, and where to apply it for maximum leverage.

That tracks with everything I’ve predicted, experienced, and seen. The skill that makes AI useful is knowing what good looks like before and after the model generates something. That ability comes from reps.

Nervegna distills LinkedIn CPO Tomer Cohen’s thesis to five skills AI cannot automate:

The five skills that AI cannot automate, according to Cohen, are Vision, Empathy, Communication, Creativity, and Judgment. As he puts it: “I’m working hard to automate everything else.”

The operational version:

The critical insight: the builder orchestrates the agents. The agents execute. Judgment stays human. This is not about replacing people with AI. It’s about compressing the team needed to ship something meaningful from fifteen people to three - or even one.

I’ve been calling this the orchestrator gap: the distance between a designer who uses AI and one who directs it. LinkedIn just gave it a job title. I think we will see more companies go this way. Whether or not it’s a good idea remains to be seen.