At LinkedIn, the Line Between Engineer and Designer Is Blurring

In an era of vibe coding and artificial intelligence that can build a professional-looking webpage based on a simple prompt, the lines separating software engineers, designers and product managers are getting blurry.

At LinkedIn, for example, company leaders are encouraging engineers to use AI to speed up design work and designers to use AI to generate code, Chief Product Officer Tomer Cohen told me. Building products will be less about technical know-how and more about intangible skills like taste, he said.