Liu: Multidisciplinary hybrid roles have a major advantage over specialized tech roles
Howie Liu · How we restructured Airtable's entire org for AI | Howie Liu (co-founder and CEO) · Aug 31, 2025 · at 51:08
Airtable CEO Howie Liu explains how AI tooling favors product managers, engineers, and designers who cross into adjacent skill sets.
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“There's a strong advantage to any of those Three roles who can kind of cross over into the other two, right? Like kind of the hybrid unicorn types, right? So if you're a designer who. Can be just technical enough to kind of be dangerous and understand a little bit of like how these models work and, you know like how does tool calling work and all of this stuff, like then you can actually design a concept or even prototype a concept in, including in these prototyping tools that that's much more. Interesting and maybe realistic than if you're just stuck in kind of the flat, like, let me put something in a static design”
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