THE "PLAYER-COACH" ROLE IS BECOMING INCREASINGLY HARDER

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Teams using coding agents open 6x more pull requests than traditional teams and 3x more than they did in 2024, according to Linear's report on AI usage in software teams. Review load is climbing faster than anyone's model of the job, which is the likeliest way your first engineering manager hire burns out. Managers already see only about 40% of what a report does in a day. The squeeze lands hardest on engineering managers and tech leads: the people expected to write code and manage at once.