one-person product team
[ WUHN-per-suhn PROD-uhkt teem ]noun
One person doing what a small team used to do: the idea, the build, the launch, and the support afterwards.
Explanation
The character of this era, and in practice it is one person changing hats all day. The bar for good enough went up at the same moment the headcount went down.
Related words
- vibe coader — Somebody who builds working software mostly by telling AI what to do, and takes full responsibility for the result anyway.
- yak shaving — A chain of one-more-thing-first jobs that carries you further and further from what you sat down to do.