Will AI lead the charge and leave engineering managers behind?
A look into Tech’s next revolution and what it might mean for engineering managers
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is becoming increasingly prevalent in the workplace and has the potential to disrupt many roles, including engineering management. Over the past decade, we had seen AI replacing repetitive tasks in all industries. For examples, self-serve checkouts replace human cashiers in the retail industry. In the tech industry, AI is increasingly being used to automate data entry tasks, such as scanning documents, extracting data, and entering it into a database. For many industries, chatbots and virtual assistants are now used to provide customer service support, including answering customer inquiries, processing orders, and resolving common issues.
Therefore, the question that many people are asking now in 2023 with tech layoffs and big tech companies like Facebook and Salesforce announcing the reduction of their front-line engineering managers is that would AI eventually replace engineering managers entirely. In this article, I will explore the potential for AI to replace engineering managers.
