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Every Engineer a Manager

L2 · PractitionerOpinion & AnalysisLessWrong AI· 8/27/2026

Explores how daily AI tool usage is fundamentally changing software engineering roles and workflows.

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AI coding assistants like Claude and Codex are transforming software engineers into managers of AI agents rather than direct code writers.

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For a long time we’ve thought of software engineers as split into two tracks: Individual Contributors (ICs) and managers. This divide made a lot of sense when we needed an army of engineers to write code. Now we have Claude and Codex and Grok and Kimi. They write the code for us, and the job of an IC is to manage their agents. Functionally, this means that every IC is a manager now. True, ICs don’t manage people, but they manage a team of bots, and that means they face many of the same challenge

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