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AI Turns Engineers Into Managerial Roles
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OpenAI and Meta alum Philip Su wrote in a January Substack essay and reiterated on a podcast this week that AI is turning software engineers into managers, as engineers now delegate work to AI agents and perform tasks like prioritizing and giving feedback. He says human managers remain necessary for coordination, predicting a new "agent manager" role as firms thin traditional management layers.
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