Comment by madrox

Every job in engineering is changing right now. Managers aren't immune. I've been an EM for almost 20 years in some flavor or another, and I've been thinking a lot about how I want to adapt to this era.

This is the first time I've seriously considered swapping out of management. Not for any of the reasons the author says, but because:

- I don't feel as confident mentoring others through this period given how much the work is changing

- I find myself enjoying the work more

- EMs tend to have more difficulty justifying their existence at the best of times let alone a period of change like this

The AI world will still need EMs. It's just unclear what those EMs will be doing every day and how it will work.