The Aboard Podcast New Words for a New Industry
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Mar 31, 2026 Playful coinages for AI-era roles and whether new words help us navigate shifting work. How AI collapses product, design, and engineering boundaries and speeds delivery. When tooling replaces tasks but not certified expertise, like pilots or doctors. New service models, pricing expertise after LLMs, and reframing what business you are really in.
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AI Is Blurring Role Boundaries In Product Teams
- AI is collapsing boundaries between roles so designers, engineers, and product managers are doing overlapping work.
- Paul Ford observes that building is fast now while thinking and product strategy remain hard, shifting who can create functioning software.
AI Threatens The Economic Value Of Expertise
- High-margin professional services are defined by the gap between expert knowledge and laypeople's lack of it.
- Rich Ciotti points out AI threatens that delta because non-experts can now attempt expert tasks with LLMs.
Simulators Get Good But Experts Still Certify
- Simulation tools can converge with real expertise as fidelity improves, but certification and final accountability still require experts.
- Paul Ford compares current LLM capability progression to flight simulators becoming training-grade yet not replacing in-air certification.