Engineering management is the next role likely to be automated by LLM agents

For the past two years, most discussions about AI in software have focused on code generation. That is the wrong layer to focus on. Coding is the visible surface. The real leverage is in coordination, planning, prioritization, and information synthesis across large systems. Ironically, those are precisely the responsibilities assigned to engineering management. And those are exactly the kinds of problems modern LLM agents are unusually good at.