Applied AI Engineering

A follow-up to The Manager of Agents. I named three roles and missed a fourth: the platform tier that builds and runs the harness. It is also the one place the enterprise is quietly renting its own accountability.

A bet I am making with my career, written down so you can disagree with it. The unit of work in software engineering is moving from a human writing code to a fleet of agents writing it, and the human is becoming the manager of that fleet.