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What Changes for Engineering Managers
Four management assumptions break at once: that output tracks effort, that capacity is headcount, that people learn by doing, and that review is a small tax. Each breaks differently.
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What Changes for Product Managers
A role that existed partly to ration scarce engineering capacity changes when capacity stops being scarce — and the discipline of saying no gets harder, not easier.
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Why "Just Add an Agent" Fails as a Product Strategy
Usage goes curious, then low, then the feature sits there — and the team upgrades the model, which doesn't help, because capability was never the problem.
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The Use Cases Everyone Tries and Nobody Ships
Six applications get attempted everywhere and stall at the same four points. Each has a narrower version that ships — and it's usually less exciting than the pitch that funded it.
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The Use Cases Agents Genuinely Solve Today
A criterion beats a list: complete inputs, a mechanical check, bounded blast radius. Everything clearing that bar is working in production — and the largest realized value is the least discussed.
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Data Work Gets More Valuable, Not Less
The buffer between bad data and consequences was a person who noticed the number looked wrong. Agents act on it — which turns data quality from an analytical property into an operational one.
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The Support Org After Agents: Fewer Tickets, Harder Tickets
The residual isn't a random sample of the old work — it's specifically the hardest cases, with the easy ones that used to provide pacing and training removed. Support got here first.
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What Happens to QA When Agents Write the Tests
Cheap test generation makes suite quality matter more, not less — because the default outcome is a large, green suite that verifies nothing. Someone has to own whether it catches things.
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Evaluation Engineer: The Job Description Writing Itself
The furthest-formed of the emerging roles: well-defined, consistently needed, consistently unstaffed. It's everyone's dependency and nobody's job, which is exactly why.
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Agent Operations: The Role Without a Title Yet
Someone in every agent-running organization does this job without being hired for it. It has no name, no allocation, and no incident that forces it — until whoever was doing it informally leaves.