From Overwhelmed Team Lead to AI Orchestrator: How I Took Back Control of My Dev Life

13 years building. NET products. Team lead. This is what the last 8 months taught me. The Anxiety Phase 13 years as a. NET engineer. I thought I had seen everything. Then May 2025 happened and my team started using Cursor. Before that my week was fine. 1 maybe 2 stories, a couple of PR reviews, some back and forth with business. This is what my week looked like. Then almost overnight it wasn't. Stories went from 1-2 per week ** to **1-2 per day. PRs went from a couple a week to 3-5 queued at any given time.