Many engineers with a long career have probably thought about becoming a manager at one point. A large portion of them decided to stay in the IC (individual contributor) track because they did not like some of the aspects of being a manager. Some decided to stick to the IC role because they liked creating code. With AI, every engineer will need to become a manager to manager one or more AI assistants who do a lot of…
This is exactly what is happening where I work. The "future", according to company leadership, involves "programmers" directing AI agents to do basically everything, without ever touching the code directly. Sounds abysmal to me.