EMERGINGDOSSIER · /n/advocate-was-stolen-from-engineering
Reclaim Developer Advocate from sticker distribution
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Advocate originally meant a senior engineer acting as Customer Zero who took the world to the product; commoditisation turned it into a charismatic lead-gen role and left a vacuum where technical authority used to be.
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FRAMINGS
- · Customer Zero
- · advocate vs evangelist
- · technical authority vacuum
PATTERNS
- · sticker distributor
- · Customer Zero
- · advocate takes the world to the product
- · stolen title
- · senior engineer who protects the ecosystem
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