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by JohnCClarke 136 days ago
When developers who were comfortable as individual contributors start using agentic AI they necessarily start to work somewhat as managers.

The workflow and responsibilities are very different. It can be a painful transition.

There has always been a strong undercurrent of developers feeling superior to managers and PMs and now those develoeprs are being forced to confront the reality of a manager or PM's experience.

Work is changing, and the change is only going to accelerate.