A message landed in my inbox a few months back. New scope, same title. Frontend, backend, and QA, folded into one role, because the team now had AI to cover the rest.
I had shipped backend work for years. The frontend half of our codebase, and the QA half, I had barely touched. Reading someone else's frontend patterns for the first time, at speed, with a deadline attached, is its own skill and I did not have it yet.
I said yes anyway.
Has your role quietly grown a second and third job inside it
Not a promotion. Not new headcount. The same title, the same paycheck window, and suddenly three disciplines expected of one person because a tool now sits in the gap where two teammates used to be.
