InfoWorld: Software developers are all managers now in the age of coding agents
rseroter · x · 2026-09-18
An InfoWorld opinion piece argues developers are becoming managers as coding agents proliferate. It revisits long-standing career-path problems—promotion ceilings, the perils of forcing coders into people management, the limits of Architect/Staff tracks—and contends that delegation, review, and coordination skills now apply to managing fleets of agents, even if agent management differs from managing humans.
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