# generalist

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## The generalist EM's reading list

DevFeed: [The generalist EM's reading list](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/the-generalist-em-s-reading-list-32333.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://newsletter.manager.dev/newsletter/the-generalist-em-s-reading-list>)

Author: Anton Zaides

Published: 2026-06-09T06:01:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Manager.dev](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/manager-dev.md>)

Topics: [Product Management](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/product-management.md>), [User experience (UX)](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ux.md>), [Framework](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/framework.md>)

Tags: [books](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/books.md>), [engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/engineering.md>), [generalist](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/generalist.md>), [learning](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/learning.md>), [product-management](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/product-management.md>)

### AI overview

A reading list of seven books intended to help engineers and engineering managers learn the basics of adjacent technology professions, including product management, design, user research, customer experience, business, marketing, and growth. The excerpt discusses Competing Against Luck and The Design of Everyday Things.

### Source excerpt

7 books to easily catch up with non-engineering professions in tech (number 3 is a must read)

## Double click: What does it mean to be a designer in the age of AI?

DevFeed: [Double click: What does it mean to be a designer in the age of AI?](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/double-click-what-does-it-mean-to-be-a-designer-in-the-age-of-ai-9637.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.figma.com/blog/double-click-what-does-it-mean-to-be-a-designer-in-the-age-of-ai/>)

Author: Andrew Hogan

Published: 2025-12-03T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Figma Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/figma-blog.md>)

Topics: [Artificial Intelligence](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai.md>), [Code](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/code.md>), [App](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/app.md>)

Tags: [ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai.md>), [certifications](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/certifications.md>), [complexity](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/complexity.md>), [developers](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/developers.md>), [generalist](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/generalist.md>), [software-engineer](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/software-engineer.md>), [writing-code](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/writing-code.md>)

### AI overview

The article examines how AI and expanding workflows are blurring the boundaries among designers, developers, and product managers. It explores the growing value of generalist skills and questions how changing responsibilities may affect job titles, professional identity, and ways of working.

### Source excerpt

The scope of what designers, developers, and product managers do is expanding, and the boundaries between them are blurring. As workflows shift, a bigger question emerges: What happens to job titles--and the ways of working and sense of identity that comes with them?

## Issue no.9: Memos for the future

DevFeed: [Issue no.9: Memos for the future](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/issue-no-9-memos-for-the-future-9972.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.figma.com/blog/memos-for-the-future/>)

Author: Figma

Published: 2025-01-28T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Figma Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/figma-blog.md>)

Topics: [Figma](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/figma.md>), [Web](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/web.md>), [Internet](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/internet.md>), [coding](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/coding.md>)

Tags: [2025](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/2025.md>), [developer](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/developer.md>), [figma](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/figma.md>), [generalist](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/generalist.md>), [internet](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/internet.md>), [product](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/product.md>), [technology](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/technology.md>), [web](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/web.md>)

### AI overview

Figma's Issue no. 9 presents six perspectives from team members on preserving craft and purpose amid changing roles, new technology, and rapid product cycles. The essays address personal and expressive web design, emotionally resonant software, product pivots, creative coding, generalist work, and inclusion.

### Source excerpt

In a time of blurred roles, new technology, and breakneck product cycles, how do we uphold craft and purpose in our work?

## Jack of All Trades, Master of Some, a Multi-Purpose Transformer Agent

DevFeed: [Jack of All Trades, Master of Some, a Multi-Purpose Transformer Agent](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/jack-of-all-trades-master-of-some-a-multi-purpose-transformer-agent-7296.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://huggingface.co/blog/jat>)

Author: Quentin Gallouédec; Edward Beeching; Clément ROMAC; Thomas Wolf

Published: 2024-04-22T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Hugging Face - Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/hugging-face-blog.md>)

Topics: [Transformer](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/transformer.md>), [Artificial Intelligence](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai.md>), [datasets](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/datasets.md>), [Open Source](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/open-source.md>), [Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/machine-learning-artificial-intelligence.md>), [Embeddings](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/embeddings.md>)

Tags: [agent](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/agent.md>), [architecture](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/architecture.md>), [datasets](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/datasets.md>), [embeddings](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/embeddings.md>), [games](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/games.md>), [generalist](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/generalist.md>), [imitation](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/imitation.md>), [model](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/model.md>), [open-source](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/open-source.md>), [rl](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/rl.md>), [train](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/train.md>), [transformers](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/transformers.md>)

### AI overview

The article introduces Jack of All Trades (JAT), an open-source project for training a generalist multimodal Transformer agent. It describes the JAT dataset, expert reinforcement-learning agents, and a model that can handle tasks including video games, robot control, command execution, and navigation.

### Source excerpt

We're on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.