Developers Drafted Into AI Management // AIDRAN

Two practitioners describing their experience with AI coding tools arrived at the same conclusion independently: the work now resembles product management more than engineering . That convergence is not anecdotal noise — it is what a structural shift looks like before it becomes a formal job description. The title stays the same. The compensation stays the same. The actual daily work moves from writing and reasoning about code toward specifying, directing, and reviewing what an AI system produces.

AI Coding Tools Are Making Managers of Developers Who Never Wanted the Job

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