AI made me into a manager against my will

Epistemic status: Personal history anchored to dated records (chat exports, git log, daily notes). Public launch dates are from the vendors' own announcements. My own first-use dates are given to the month and are the earliest surviving evidence, so they can only be later than the truth, not earlier. AI usage: The prose and the opinions are mine, written without AI. Claude Code reconstructed the timeline from my chat exports and git history, verified the public dates against the vendors' announcements, fact-checked the draft, wrote the footnotes and fixed typos and grammar. I have recently noticed that the way I have been "coding" for the last year is much more similar to the way a manager at a software company would "code" than to the way a software engineer would. What's most striking to me is that I never explicitly decided to switch, it just gradually happened (like the Ship of Theseus). This is especially sad, because I've discovered that deep focus while coding actually felt very good, but I don't get it anymore when managing agents, especially when there are multiple of them. So I am curious to reconstruct the timeline of how this happened. With the way AI development is spe