The new CTO job: agent management and QA loops, 'cable management' instead of coding
HankYeomans · x · 2026-10-16
A discussion thread on how technical leadership is changing. The original post says the new CTO role is now mostly agent management, QA verification loop setup, and translating CEO feedback into technical changes, with minimal code review. The reblogger adds that technical people now manage complexity, but tooling is too early: we need better abstractions for tracing ownership and flows, and new testing/CR paradigms — 'more like cable management than coding.'
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