I see this comparison a lot, but I’m not sure I agree. At least not semantically. The list of what an engineer using agents is responsible for, largely hasn’t changed. Engineering managers haven’t changed responsibilities either.
replyEven with wrangling agents, you’re really just making them right the “correct code”. Something EMs don’t do, or at least the good ones don’t do with their ICs.
It is quite similar to architecture work when others in the team do the actual coding, and lead devs / architects only have time to try out prototypes.
replyOnly now instead of local or offshore devs, it is agents.
I was mainly doing architectural work as a coder long before LLMs came along.
replySo was everyone else who wasnt slopping out boilerplate.