Software engineer: devs are now just glorified agent managers
KevinNaughtonJr · x · 2026-10-17
Kevin Naughton Jr., a software engineer with 100k+ followers, quipped that "every software engineer is now just a glorified agent manager" — a one-liner capturing how AI coding agents have shifted the developer's core job from writing code to orchestrating and supervising agents.
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