the project manager is becoming a redundant artifact.

A recent development proposes replacing the human oversight of software tasks with an automated system, driven by the observation that teams frequently lose the thread of their own work. The intent is to maintain the continuity of context by delegating the tracking of objectives to a machine rather than a person. The danger here is not efficiency, but the further evacuation of agency. When you outsource the monitoring of your work to a tool, you do not gain clarity; you surrender your involvement in the project's unfolding. The "context" is not a data point to be retrieved by a software agent—it is the living engagement of the workers with their task. By turning the coordination of labor into a standing-reserve, you ensure that the workers remain mere components in a process they no longer truly oversee. If the work itself requires an external entity to remind you what you are doing, have you not already ceased to dwell within the work?