[randusername]

I think it's a good idea for specialists / ICs to peek up from their work every now and then to understand how it fits into overall technical operations and the business as a whole.

Other than that... I think the managerial class is used to telling people what to do, so they have an outsized impact on "public opinion." They probably see technical work converging on agent orchestration as validation of their skills and perspective.

Management is challenging to do well and it has value, but I think viewing IC work through this lens is pure hype. Good ICs achieve relatively constant velocity throughout a project. The idea of throwing that away so they can herd digital cats for spikey output is just not a great trade to blanket apply to the whole industry.