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According to Block. https://block.xyz/inside/from-hierarchy-to-intelligence. There will be three generalized roles in tech:

     Individual contributors (ICs) who build and operate capabilities, the model, the intelligence layer, and the interfaces. They are deep specialists and experts in a specific layer of the system. The world model provides the context that a manager used to provide, so ICs can make decisions about their layer without waiting to be told what to do.
     Directly Responsible Individuals (DRI) who own specific cross-cutting problems or opportunities and customer outcomes. A DRI might own the problem of merchant churn in a specific segment for 90 days, with full authority to pull resources from the world model team, the lending capability team, and the interface team as needed. DRIs may persist on certain problems or move elsewhere to solve new ones.
     Player-coaches who combine building with developing people. They replace the traditional manager whose primary job was information routing. A player-coach still writes code or builds models or designs interfaces. They also invest in the growth of the people around them. They don't spend their days in status meetings, alignment sessions, and priority negotiations. The world model handles alignment. The DRI structure handles strategy and priority. The player-coach handles craft and people.

To give a sports analogy. The player-coaches are the coach who rose through the ranks and now gets to choose and develop the other players on the team. The individual contributors are functional specialists e.g., defender, halfback, forward etc. The DRI "own" specific scenarios e.g.: penalty kicks, throw-in at the corner etc.