Hamel Husain: no single role wins the AI era, breadth beats moats
HamelHusain · x · 2026-10-12
AI engineer Hamel Husain weighs the "which role wins the AI era" debate: marketers claim distribution is the new moat and founders will come from marketing; PMs argue taste is the moat and it's easier than ever to build the wrong thing; engineers say systems thinking plus technical chops to wield agents at scale gives them unprecedented leverage. His take: no single discipline becomes unicorn material en masse — good people in each stay valuable, and multi-discipline skill helps, but no field has a clear edge there.
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