What's this about?
swyx argues hiring has split violently: a bull market for AI-native individual contributors and player-coaches, a bear market for pure "head-of-X" managers — "1 year managing 10 agents > 10 years managing 10–100 people."
Why it matters
~1k likes. Whether or not you buy the strong form, it names a shift people feel: leverage is moving to hands-on builders who can direct fleets of agents, away from managing large human orgs.