Engineer → Product Builder: The Career Upgrade AI Just Made Possible
10:00 - 10:30, 21st of May (Thursday) 2026 / AI & Architecture
If you were skeptical about AI hype, you were right. AI doesn't turn bad ideas into good products. You ship code faster, but if you're building the wrong thing, you're shipping garbage at scale.
But something is shifting in engineers' favor. LinkedIn introduced a "Full Stack Builder" title. Linear hit $1.25B with one PM. Figma reports 72% say AI is driving role expansion. The market is rewarding what great engineers always knew: the person closest to the problem should make the decisions. AI just removed the last excuse.
We'll walk through the evolution Engineer → Product Engineer → Product Builder. What changes at each level, which skills compound, and where AI actually accelerates the leap. A concrete roadmap for engineers and architects who want to own what they build, not just how.
Piotr brings 25 years of engineering leadership at GOG.com / CD Projekt and Displate. Wojtek brings 12+ years shipping ML in production - personalization at Allegro since 2017, ML automation at Booking.com - and now heads product at GOG.com. Together they trained 1,810 Product Builders across two AI Product Heroes editions.
You'll leave with the 5 traits that separate Product Builders from senior engineers, and three moves to start Monday.
