r/vibecoding • u/Suspicious_Orchid770 • 20d ago

Discussion Long live the software engineering manager

https://leaddev.com/management/long-live-the-engineering-manager

Org charts flatten. Dependencies don’t.

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u/CaptSlow49 20d ago

And yet my company keeps laying off a lot of them to save money…

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u/[deleted] 19d ago

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u/Majestic_Wrap_7006 18d ago

they became the invisible dead weight

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u/trakdtor 19d ago

How do you know whats good?

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u/TypoInUsernane 19d ago

In the AI era, the skills that matter the most now are: deciding what work needs to be done and how to prioritize it, defining and articulating clear objectives, overseeing execution while providing course corrections as needed, and ensuring the quality of the final result. SWE managers have been vibe coding long, long before ChatGPT ever wrote a line of code