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dotey: coding agents turned me from tech lead into engineering manager

What's this about?

Baoyu (dotey) describes a big change this year: with coding agents, his role shifted from tech lead (deep in system design and code review) to engineering manager (setting direction and acceptance criteria, letting agents do the hands-on work). He openly wonders whether "people not reviewing code" becomes the norm.

Why it matters

348 + 63 likes. It's a first-person account of the workflow shift the Cursor stat quantifies — and the code-review question is the load-bearing worry, since less human review is exactly what the day's agent-escape stories make scary.
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