Every job in engineering is changing right now. Managers aren't immune. I've been an EM for almost 20 years in some flavor or another, and I've been thinking a lot about how I want to adapt to this era.

This is the first time I've seriously considered swapping out of management. Not for any of the reasons the author says, but because:

- I don't feel as confident mentoring others through this period given how much the work is changing

- I find myself enjoying the work more

- EMs tend to have more difficulty justifying their existence at the best of times let alone a period of change like this

The AI world will still need EMs. It's just unclear what those EMs will be doing every day and how it will work.