The job ain't quite the same
prashanth.worldIt's not the same, and there is no going back. We moved another layer up in the abstraction stack, but this shift feels fundamentally different.
I wonder if the people who enjoy the purely agentic version would also enjoy management. Personally, I have said no to more money because I enjoy the ground level work. But that work is just not the same.
I don't think it's the same as management. As a manager, you're not responsible for the code your team creates. You're responsible for their output, but that's fundamentally different. I also think you're managing people's emotions, expectations, holding people accountable, etc. Maybe those who enjoy working with agents would actually rather be PMs?
I agree the shift feels different than e.g. going from jquery to react or something.