Alexandr Wang: nobody writes code anymore — orchestrating agents is the job
2C_ornot2C · x · 2026-11-09
Scale AI founder and Meta Chief AI Officer Alexandr Wang says the most underrated career shift is moving from writing code to orchestrating agents: "How do you get a million agents to work together? Then a trillion." Commenters note labs now hire for systems thinking at a scale that didn't exist two years ago — a different cognitive job entirely, and one most developers haven't updated their mental model for.
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