--- title: I automated my work. Now I manage the automation. description: A brief, informal reflection on the shift from writing code to supervising AI agents that still require approvals, answers, and retries, questioning whether... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/i-automated-my-work-now-i-manage-the-automation--faip4s4cq twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: I automated my work. Now I manage the automation. | daily.dev og:description: A brief, informal reflection on the shift from writing code to supervising AI agents that still require approvals, answers, and retries, questioning whether... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/i-automated-my-work-now-i-manage-the-automation--faip4s4cq og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/Faip4s4CQ.png og:image:alt: I automated my work. Now I manage the automation. og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # I automated my work. Now I manage the automation. **[Julius AQ](https://daily.dev/sources/zkzgtvnwpfu9mycqdvz6r)** · [@iaparatudia](https://daily.dev/iaparatudia) · 1 min read · 27 upvotes · 11 comments ## Summary A brief, informal reflection on the shift from writing code to supervising AI agents that still require approvals, answers, and retries, questioning whether this makes developers into managers of automation rather than beneficiaries of time savings. ## Content  AI agents were supposed to save me time. Now they need approvals, answers, retries… and supervision. At what point do you stop being the developer and become the manager? 😄 ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@jakemctigue** · 2 upvotes > AI Agent Manager... what a world we live in. Honestly it sounds like you need a more complex or stronger orchestration model to manage your AI agents. 🤣 **@ahmetozel** · 1 upvotes > The approvals and retries seem like the useful measure here: how many minutes of human attention does one completed task still consume? A workflow can generate code quickly while moving most of the effort into reviewing uncertain decisions, recovering failed steps, and reconstructing what the agent already changed. > > I would track intervention time alongside completion time for a repeatable task, including failed runs rather than only successful ones. If the same approval keeps appearing, that gives you a concrete choice: improve the task contract, narrow the permitted action, or keep that... **@sayidinaahmadalqososyi** · 1 upvotes > wkwkwk **@soapbravo** · 1 upvotes > This is exactly the point developers are being fired... and all people above developers are getting aware of this and they manage agents instead of developers... **@diyweb** · 1 upvotes > Very relatable. The automation itself becomes a product you maintain: logs, failures, edge cases. The ones that last are the ones with a clear owner and alerts when something silently stops. ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [I Miss Writing Code](https://daily.dev/posts/i-miss-writing-code-yxc7ryasd) · iamluminousmen · 0 upvotes · 1 comments --- Tags: [#ai-agents](https://daily.dev/tags/ai-agents), [#automation](https://daily.dev/tags/automation), [#vibe-coding](https://daily.dev/tags/vibe-coding) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/i-automated-my-work-now-i-manage-the-automation--faip4s4cq) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","mainEntityOfPage":"https://daily.dev/posts/i-automated-my-work-now-i-manage-the-automation--faip4s4cq","headline":"I automated my work. 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Honestly it sounds like you need a more complex or stronger orchestration model to manage your AI agents. 🤣","datePublished":"2026-10-09T01:12:57.576Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/Faip4s4CQ#c-8z1Hvqr7S","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"J. Jake McTigue","url":"https://daily.dev/jakemctigue","image":"https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/a/ACg8ocKgmy-8vn0jlJenJfFupoxJ5bkEpS8WiDcRMGJYRg0JUJi2DCE=s96-c"},"interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":2}},{"@type":"Comment","text":"The approvals and retries seem like the useful measure here: how many minutes of human attention does one completed task still consume? A workflow can generate code quickly while moving most of the effort into reviewing uncertain decisions, recovering failed steps, and reconstructing what the agent already changed.\nI would track intervention time alongside completion time for a repeatable task, including failed runs rather than only successful ones. If the same approval keeps appearing, that gives you a concrete choice: improve the task contract, narrow the permitted action, or keep that decision with the developer instead of adding another supervisor agent.","datePublished":"2026-10-11T09:51:00.964Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/Faip4s4CQ#c-K3t5RNj5P","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Ahmet Özel","url":"https://daily.dev/ahmetozel","image":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/70992231?v=4"},"interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":1}},{"@type":"Comment","text":"wkwkwk","datePublished":"2026-10-11T11:43:32.626Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/Faip4s4CQ#c-AGrBwH4UT","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Sayidina Ahmadal Qososyi","url":"https://daily.dev/sayidinaahmadalqososyi","image":"https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/a/ACg8ocIBvYTwZrcbxJf8ebhczozgsq8CKgjwTKEBTaVStTovC11zVC3m=s96-c"},"interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":1}},{"@type":"Comment","text":"This is exactly the point developers are being fired… and all people above developers are getting aware of this and they manage agents instead of developers…","datePublished":"2026-10-08T05:42:01.624Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/Faip4s4CQ#c-tRHCQ1wlP","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Soap Bravo","url":"https://daily.dev/soapbravo","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--rkKDWshV--/f_auto/v1783071551/avatars/avatar_1D30kcJ92FZKAXwAPCvAl?_a=BAMAMicg0"},"interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":1}},{"@type":"Comment","text":"Very relatable. 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