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The End of the People Manager

Why Engineering Leaders Must Become Designers

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Mirek Stanek
May 25, 2026
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First, Anthropic says the AI is capable of taking on a manager’s job. Now, Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky puts a target, stating that the era of the pure people manager is over. (see the recent interview: How Brian Chesky Is Redesigning Airbnb for the AI Era)

For the last decade, the tech industry has popularized a very specific archetype of leadership: the det…

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