KooFE Frontend Team

Sep 21, 2026 · R&D Management

AI Reshapes R&D: From Skill-Driven to Intent-Driven Paradigm

This article analyzes how AI transforms R&D from a skill-driven to an intent-driven paradigm, detailing four stages of AI autonomy, productivity gains in speed, quality, and throughput, organizational shifts toward end-to-end builders and agent layers, management evolution into system architects, and the emergence of Frontline Deployment Engineers (FDE) as frontend developers expand scope.