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The mindset shift every engineer must make to thrive with AI agents: stop writing code, start directing it, and why you won't get lazy doing it.
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Stop writing code, start directing agents. The hardest part of adopting AI isn't the tools, it's the mindset. Get curious, become a director, treat AI as the pilot instead of the copilot, and obsess over the product instead of the code. You won't get lazy; you'll grow new muscles.