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Everyone's talking about AI replacing individual contributors. Nobody's talking about what it does to engineering managers.

That asymmetry is interesting to me, because in my experience, EMs stand to gain more from AI than most ICs — or lose more ground if they ignore it. The difference isn't which tools you use. It's whether you use AI to reclaim the time that actually matters, or just use it to make your status updates look better.

Here's my honest accounting of what changed after a year of deliberately integrating AI into how I manage my team.