# We are all AI agent managers now

DevFeed: [We are all AI agent managers now](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/we-are-all-ai-agent-managers-now-18327.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://newsletter.aiengineer.co/p/we-are-all-ai-agent-managers-now>)

Author: Owain Lewis

Published: 2026-07-03T11:08:20Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [The AI Engineer](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/the-ai-engineer.md>)

Topics: [AI Agent](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai-agent.md>), [systems](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/systems.md>)

Tags: [agent](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/agent.md>), [ai-agent](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai-agent.md>), [ai-agents](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai-agents.md>), [engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/engineering.md>), [systems](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/systems.md>)

## AI overview

An engineering manager reflects on how working with AI agents changes the role of developers. The article argues that the work increasingly involves defining goals, quality standards, constraints, and systems that enable agents to produce results, while retaining human direction because agents make frequent mistakes and lack human intelligence and creativity.

## Source excerpt

The work is no longer writing the code. The work is designing and scaling agent systems.