Now I think I understand where my bubbles met. I know a lot of “solution engineer” people who wanted to become/became PMs, and part of that crowd is now moving to FDE (makes a lot of sense). To me, the skills of a Product Builder and an FDE are the same. The only difference is which side the person comes from.
Let me explain. Both roles do discovery and delivery. The point is more about focus. More technical? You become an FDE. More product? Product builder. Still, the overlap is big.
For me, this ability to discover and deliver — a one-person show — is where I want to be. It’s where the fun is these days. Feeling like a “dangerous” person, picking up a hypothesis, validating it and implementing it… it’s awesome!
I hope more people are going through this beyond my little bubble. Advice to the people in the little bubble… learn how to do this. If you don’t know how, pay for Claude Code or something similar and deal with agents the way you deal with the dev team — if you’re a PM — or the way you deal with the design/product team — if you come from engineering.
Roles are converging and changing, that’s real… “Invade” the other areas until you feel dangerous in that way — “I can do it on my own”. That naivety has already made me do — or get myself in trouble, depending on how you look at it lol — some great things!
Let’s go build and use AI to feel “amplified”. I don’t think I’m more productive; I think I have more skills. :)
Originally written in Portuguese and published on LinkedIn on July 22, 2026. I translated it into English with the help of AI (Claude): it let me bring my LinkedIn posts to people who don’t read Portuguese without rewriting each one from scratch. I reviewed the translation to keep my original meaning and tone.