Developer Tea
Developer Tea
Jonathan Cutrell
From Software Engineer to Agent Manager - How Work is Changing in A New Software Development Paradigm
21 minutes Posted Mar 10, 2026 at 9:00 am.
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If you're a software engineer right now, you likely feel like your world is changing overnight. We are writing half or less the amount of code that we wrote even a year ago, which represents a seismic, groundbreaking shift in our industry. However, the rapid introduction of new tools can slide quickly from exciting to purely chaotic, leaving you feeling like you are falling behind. In today's episode, I explore how this changes the nature of our day-to-day work, and why the key to surviving this transition is shifting your mindset from a traditional "Software Engineer" to an "Agent Manager".