> I think programming is a job people don’t need to do anymore and anyone who called themselves a software engineer is now a manager of agents. Jira is the interface. Define the requirements.

That Grand Canyon sized logical leap quoted ignores a vital concept: understanding.

To "define the requirements" sufficient enough for any given feature/defect/etc. requires a degree of formality not present in prose. This already exists and is in use presently:

  Programming languages.  See 4GL's[0] and 5GL's[1].

0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth-generation_programming_...

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth-generation_programming_l...

Unfortunately, management seems to be agreeing with you

I hope engineers have the sense to really set high prices when we're asked to fix the broken code that your "managers of agents" don't know how to fix

The open question is who is better at defining requirements for AI agents. Managers or engineers?

Ultimately it won't matter, because Managers will be the ones choosing who gets to stick around and they're of course going to choose themselves

Yes. Exactly. So who is good at that job?