Nice insight. I never understood this “accept being a manager” thing, because in reality, that’s not the case. Being a manager is much more complex than handling code generated by agents.

What still puzzles me a lot is how you can accept that AI just writes the code for you, without you being the one making decisions about how the code — not the spec — will be written. How are you able to get things done while still keeping a good understanding of everything you did?

Maybe I’m wrong, or maybe it’s because I haven’t pushed the agentic way to its limits, but I really haven’t found it to be a good way to produce good work in general.