Agentic Engineering Day New Zealand
You're the Principal Engineer of an Agent Squad. Not a Manager.
Session
"Everyone's a manager now" is a view I regularly come across as more and more of us start coordinating fleets of AI agents. It's inaccurate on several counts, but the part that worries me most is what it assumes about motivation: that being told you're a manager is universally a good thing. Most engineers actively choose not to go into (people) management, and hearing that the agentic future makes them one anyway is demotivating to many, not exciting. Coordinating agents looks far more like staf