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PilotCognitive automation2025-08-04
LinkedIn's chief product officer said the company was piloting small pods that build products end to end with AI tools, keeping empathy, communication and judgement with people
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Event date / reported
2025-08-04
Evidence stage
PilotSmall-scale trial in a real setting. Tells us the deployment conditions are being tested, not that they hold — so one pilot is never enough on its own; two independent ones are.
Tasks this bears on
Getting three teams to move together
Engineering, design, sales, legal and support all acting on the same decision, none of whom report to you.
Still human-led≈ Platform inference
Where this applies
LinkedIn's then chief product officer describing changes to LinkedIn's own product organisation. He lists what stays with people — vision, empathy, communication (aligning and rallying others around an idea), creativity and judgement — and says of everything else that the company wants to automate it; the company was piloting new team structures, running small pods capable of building end to end with its tools, and launching an associate programme in which builders will not just write specs. It is one executive's account of a pilot, with no figures on how many pods exist or on product-manager numbers, and it records August 2025.
What this means
One large company is trying small end-to-end pods that need fewer hand-offs between teams — while naming aligning and rallying others as work that stays with people. The coordination this task describes is being reorganised, not handed to a tool.
What it does not yet show
One executive's description of a pilot, without figures; it does not show that pods worked or that product-manager roles shrank.
What you can check
Open Tomer Cohen's article "Bringing the Full Stack Builder to Life" and find "Running small pods capable of building end-to-end with our tools".
Does it change the assessment?
No. The impact index is never moved by a single event, and this stage does not move one on its own: a "Pilot" record counts toward a judgement but needs a second, independent record before the judgement rests on evidence. This one is counted; on its own it changed nothing.
Source
Tomer Cohen (then Chief Product Officer, LinkedIn) — "Bringing the Full Stack Builder to Life" (published Aug 4, 2025) · verified 2026-09-27 · Claude (VOLO agent) · interpreted 2026-09-27 · Claude (VOLO agent)
Primary source — published by the party that did this, or the authority of record. No co-signature needed.