Karthik started working as a “productologist” for Builder.ai in 2022. In another company, the role — assisting customers in building software — might have been called a product manager. But “productologist” relayed the buzzy way the U.K.-based startup billed itself: as a low-code or no-code artificial intelligence tool that made creating apps and websites as easy as “ordering pizza.” The job title, Karthik told Rest of World, was “confusing in the start.”
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