2026-07-02
Becoming an AI-Era PM 09 | From Executor to Orchestrator: Your New Job Is Conducting a Fleet of Agents
This is the ninth piece in the series Becoming an AI-Era PM. In 2026, the most productive people no longer sit watching one AI edit code in real time — they run several agents at once, each with its own context, each owning a slice, working asynchronously, while they split the work, hand it out, and sign it off from above. Addy Osmani calls this the shift from conductor to orchestrator, with one line that stings: a vague instruction gets amplified into a whole fleet of agents' worth of mistakes, a precise one into a whole fleet's worth of precise implementations. This piece lays out four moves you can run: don't follow one agent start to finish, split the work into non-overlapping parallel chunks, give each chunk a clear spec, and turn your job into splitting and signing off.
