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From code to orchestration
Why I stopped writing every line and started directing teams of agents — and what I learned along the way.
For years I believed being a better programmer meant writing more lines, mastering more languages, memorizing more patterns. I was wrong.
The paradigm shift
Traditional programming is syntax. AI orchestration is intent. The agent handles the syntax — my job is to design the intent with enough clarity that there's no ambiguity.
This changes everything:
- My time is worth more when I think architecture than when I write a
forloop. - Bugs are no longer typos, they're specification errors.
- Debugging becomes reading agent traces, not stack traces.
What did NOT change
Intuition. Knowing when a system is badly designed even though it compiles. Smelling when an abstraction is about to blow up in production. That still belongs to me.